Fat Dog have announced their debut album WOOF, set for release on 6 September via Domino. The London band release new song, ‘ I am the King‘.
“It was written in the toilets of the Wetherspoons pub in Forest Hill,” says frontman Joe Love, thereby ensuring the pub will one day get a blue plaque. “It was after I got broken up with.”
With an orchestral opening, it sounds like a cross between Vangelis and Underworld, and is a poignant song, possibly the world’s only poignant song to name check The Karate Kid Part II. Directed by Dylan Coates and Travis Barton, the video for ‘I am the King’ opens on a scene of the band mourning and weeping at the side of Joe’s grave and progresses to the King himself parachuting from the sky out of a helicopter. Classic Fat Dog.
When the chaotic south London rabble known as Fat Dog formed, they made two rules: they were going to be a healthy band who looked after themselves and there would be no saxophone presence in their music. Two simple edicts to live by, and two things long-since broken by the Brixton five-piece. “Yeah, it’s all gone out the window,” says Love.
Fat Dog will be on the road for most of the summer and into autumn including newly announced instores at Rough Trade in September for the album release.
Fat Dog Tour Dates
June
26 – 30 – Glastonbury Festival, Somerset
July
6 – Eurockéenes, Belfort
10 -13 – Trӕnafestivalen, Norway
11–13 – Pete The Monkey, Normandy
18-20 – Festival 66 Hodin, Smolnik
17 – 20 – Colours of Ostrava, Ostrava
25 – 28 – Latitude Festival, Suffolk
26-28 – Truck Festival, Oxfordshire
26-29 – Deer Shed, North Yorkshire
August
3 – Millenium Square, Leeds w/ Yard Act
9 – Haldern Pop, Rees-Haldern
10 – Musikfestwochen, Winterthurer
11 – Ypsigrock Festival, Sicily
16 – La Route Du Rock, Brittany
17 -18 – Lowlands Festival, Netherlands
17 -18 – August – Pukklepop Festival, Belgium
30 – Into the Great Wide Open, Vlieland
31 – Manchester Psych Fest, Manchester
September
7 – Rough Trade East, London
8 – Rough Trade, Bristol
9 – Rough Trade, Nottingham
10 – Rough Trade, Liverpool
14 – Spring Attitude Festival, Rome
15 – Poplar Festival, Trento
16 – ARCI Bellezza, Milan
28 – Float Along Festival, Sheffield
October
3 – Le 106, Rouen
4 – L’Antipode, Rennes
5 – Petit Bain, Paris
6 – Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing
8 – Doornroosje, Nijmegen
9 – Vera, Groningen
10 – Botanique, Brussels
11 – Skatecafe, Amsterdam
12 – Here’s The Thing Festival, Tilburg
14 – Bumann & Sohn, Cologne
15 – Molotow, Hamburg
16 – Urban Spree, Berlin
19 – The Baby G, Toronto
21 – Songbyrd, Washington
22 – TV Eye, Brooklyn
24 – The Empty Bootle, Chicago
26 – Black Lodge, Seattle
27 – Polaris Hall, Portland
29 – Popscene @ Brick & Mortar Music Hall, San Francisco
30 – Zebulon, LA
November
7 – The Grand Social, Dublin
8 – Empire Music Hall, Belfast
9 – Stereo, Glasgow
10 – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
12 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
13- Band On The Wall, Manchester
14 – Crookes Social Club, Sheffield
15 – Thekla, Bristol
16 – Mama Roux’s, Birmingham
17 – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
21 – Papillon, Southampton
22 – Patterns, Brighton SOLD OUT
23 – O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
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