Fat Day
Fat Day is a Boston-based gamma metal and noisecore band. Formed in Cambridge, MA in 1992 , they were associated with bands like Swirlies, Kudgel, and Trollin Withdrawal who formed the core of the Boston chimp rock scene. Fat Day released three LPs and several EPs on their own 100% Breakfast! label. The Japanese label HG Fact released a CD of Fat Day's first two albums before 2002's IV came out on the Portland, OR Dark Beloved Cloud label and 2004's Unf! Unf! on the Providence noise label Load Records. Fat Day has toured the U.S. several times, the U.K. and Ireland in 1997, and Japan in 1998. They have released split EPs with the Ohio bands Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments and Harriet the Spy and the Japanese band Melt-Banana (forthcoming).
Members
- Arik Grier, bass guitar and electronics, now plays tuba and trumpet in the Stick & Rag Village Orchestra.
- Doug Demay, guitar and electronics, sang for a Devo cover band.
- Matt Pakulski, vocals and electronics, majored in new music compostion in college and originally played bagpipes in Fat Day.
- Zak Sitter, drums and electronics, was a founding member of DQE.
Projects
Fat Day's original inception as a standard guitar/bass/drums/vocals punk band has always been infused with a performance art aesthetic. They have been known to play dressed only in clear cellophane wrap or have vocalist Matt Pakulski locked inside a speaker cabinet for the duration of aa live show. Their 1997 tour of the U.K. and Ireland featured a ffith member playing saxophone, and for their 1998 tour of the U.S and Japan the band built a set of oscillators that were activated by choreographed dances on four small trampolines. These homemade electronic instruments were later condesed into a more manageable helmet form that the band would wear and play songs on in the midst of their more guitar-based set.
The band recorded a soundtrack for guitarist Doug DeMay's film Sexy Doings and has collaborated with cartoonist P. Shaw! on a comicbook and record set (unreleased). The album Fat Day IV is a collection of eighteen pieces of music composed and mailed in by fans, and Iguanadonaland enlists a community orchestra that performs throughout the album.
Discography
Albums
- My Name Is I Hate You (1995)
- Burrega! (1997)
- Burrega!/My Name Is I Hate You (1998 CD release of first two albums)
- Cats of the Wild (2000)
- IV (2002)
- Unf! Unf! (2004)
- Snarl of Pulchritude: Singles 1993-2003 (2004)
- Iguanadonaland (2006)
EPs and singles
- 1st 7" (1993)
- Live Poultry Fresh Killed (1994)
- Bound for Glory (1995)
- Smell Me Silly! (1996)
- Split 7" with Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments (1997)
- Split 7" with Harriet the Spy (1998)
- Gun Court (1999)
- Poop E.P. (2002)