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FAT AND FRANTIC Raw and Remastered Glory In the month when the Premier League was formed, when the Maastricht treaty was signed and the city of Portland, Oregon started its recycling programme, the much loved band Fat and Frantic played the last gig of their final tour. Fans had to content themselves with a back catalogue, fading T-shirts, rusting badges and unpleasantly decaying boxer shorts. And memories, what memories. Of harmonies and stage dives, of eye-bending clothing and ear-stretching indie pop. But all memories are analogue, and get taped over. No longer. The digital revolution has brought back Fat and Frantic in all their raw and remastered glory. Download all the tracks from 4 albums (so far) on iTunes and refresh your memories. Soon Jim’s jumping, Silas’ tongue, Fat’s thrashing, Simon’s stickwork, Nige’s tinkling and Tuff’s pants will all be coming back into focus. For a minimal outlay you can recapture the rapture of the band that put the ‘hell’ into ‘hello’, and relive the ‘charismatic, energetic’ (The Independent), ‘brilliant’ (Rhythm Magazine), ‘Monkees of the nineties’ (What’s On). Lord have mercy, Fat and Frantic are back and this time it's digital….