Fat Club

The Fat Club is a series of twelve 7-inch singles released monthly by Fat Wreck Chords from March 2001 to February 2002. 1,300 of each single were pressed; They were not available for sale individually, but were distributed by postal service to those who purchased a subscription to the series.

The series featured bands who had not previously been associated with the label: Of the 12 bands who participated, only three—NOFX, Swingin' Utters, and Strung Out—were already part of the Fat Wreck Chords roster. Three of the participating bands had other one-off releases with Fat following their participation in the Fat Club: MxPx's '' The Renaissance EP'' (2001), Randy's ''Randy the Band'' (2005), and Strike Anywhere's '' Dead FM'' (2006). Three of the bands—The Lawrence Arms, The Real McKenzies, and American Steel—became long-term additions to Fat Wreck Chords' roster, releasing multiple albums through the label in the years following. Only The Vandals, Enemy You, and One Man Army have had no further releases through Fat Wreck Chords.

Though the singles were limited, several of the bands re-released their tracks on compilation albums in the years following, including NOFX's '' 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records'' (2002), Strike Anywhere's '' To Live in Discontent'' (2005), The Lawrence Arms' '' Cocktails & Dreams'' (2005), Swingin' Utters' '' Hatest Grits: B-Sides and Bullshit'' (2008), and Strung Out's ''Prototypes and Painkillers'' (2009). All of the tracks from the series were re-released as part of the Fat Wreck Chords twentieth anniversary compilation ''Wrecktrospective'' in 2009.

Summary of releases

Track listings and personnel

The Vandals

* Joe Escalante – bass guitar, backing vocals
* Warren Fitzgerald – guitar, backing vocals
* Josh Freese – drums
* Dave Quackenbush – lead vocals

American Steel

* Scott Healy – drums
* Rory Henderson – lead vocals, guitar
* Ryan Massey – guitar, backing vocals
* John Peck – bass guitar, backing vocals

The Real McKenzies

* Mark Boland – guitar, backing vocals
* Gwomper – bass guitar
* Paul McKenzie – lead vocals
* Kurt Robertson – guitar, backing vocals
* Sean Sellers – drums
* Gord Taylor – Great Highland Bagpipe

MxPx

* Mike Herrera – lead vocals, bass guitar
* Yuri Ruley – drums
* Tom Wisniewski – guitar
* Stephen Egerton – backing vocals on "You Hold the Key"
* Jerry Finn – producer, recording engineer, mix engineer

Strike Anywhere

* Thomas Barnett – lead vocals
* Eric Kane – drums
* Garth Petrie – bass guitar
* Matt Sherwood - guitar, backing vocals
* Matt Smith – guitar, backing vocals

Randy

* Johan Brändström – guitar, backing vocals
* Fredrik Granberg – drums
* Stefan Granberg – lead vocals, guitar
* Johan Gustafsson – bass guitar, backing vocals

NOFX

* El Hefe – lead guitar, backing vocals
* Fat Mike – lead vocals, bass guitar
* Eric Melvin – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
* Erik Sandin – drums

Swingin' Utters

Strung Out

* Chris Aiken – bass guitar
* Jordan Burns – drums
* Jason Cruz – lead vocals
* Jake Kiley – guitar
* Rob Ramos – guitar

Enemy You

* David Jones – lead vocals, guitar
* Chris Matulich – bass guitar
* Joe Yamazaki – drums
* Ken Yamazaki – guitar

The Lawrence Arms

* Neil Hennessy – drums
* Brendan Kelly – bass guitar, lead and backing vocals
* Chris McCaughan – guitar, lead and backing vocals

One Man Army

References

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Fat Wreck Chords albums