''Fat Chance'' is the debut solo album by

Paul Heaton Paul David Heaton (born 9 May 1962) is an English singer-songwriter. He was the frontman of the Housemartins, who had success with the singles " Happy Hour" and the UK number one "Caravan of Love" in 1986 before disbanding in 1988. He then forme ...

, the former frontman of both

The Housemartins The Housemartins were an English indie rock group formed in Hull who were active in the 1980s and charted three top-ten albums and six top-twenty singles in the UK. Many of their lyrics conveyed a mixture of socialist politics and Christiani ...

and

The Beautiful South The Beautiful South were an English pop rock group formed in 1988 by Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway, two former members of the Hull group The Housemartins, both of whom performed lead and backing vocals. Other members throughout the band's exi ...

, released in 2001 under the guise of Biscuit Boy (a.k.a. Crackerman). The album was rereleased the following year, complete with new artwork and crediting the artist as Paul Heaton. The album was critically acclaimed, but was not a commercial success.

Track listing

# "10 Lessons In Love" - 4:59 (Scott Shields/Martin Slattery/Paul Heaton) # "Mitch" - 3:53 (Paul Heaton/David Rotheray) # "The Perfect Couple" - 3:54 (Heaton) # "Last Day Blues" - 3:57 (Damon Butcher/Heaton) # "Man's World" - 4:53 (Butcher/Heaton) # "Barstool" - 4:07 (Shields/Slattery/Heaton) # "Poems" - 3:47 (Shields/Slattery/Heaton) # "If" - 3:56 (Shields/Slattery/Heaton) # "The Real Blues" - 5:51 (Shields/Slattery/Heaton) # "Proceed With Care" - 4:17 (Shields/Slattery/Heaton) # "Man, Girl, Boy, Woman" - 2:28 (Heaton)

Personnel

Musicians

*Backing Vocals – Lauraine Macintosh (3,8), Ricci P. Washington (3,8,9) *Brass – Andrew Ross (1,4,5,9), Dominic Glover (1,4,5,9), Nichol D. Thomson (1,4,5,9) *Drums, bass, backing vocals – Scott Shields *Guitar –

Jimmy Hogarth Jimmy Hogarth (born 1974, Orkney Islands, Scotland) is a London-based producer and songwriter, whose production and writing credits include, Amy Winehouse, Sia, Tom Grennan, Paolo Nutini, Duffy, Corinne Bailey Rae, Ren Harvieu, Estelle, Tina ...

(3,9) *Keyboards – Damon Butcher (4,11) *Keyboards, guitar, flute, backing vocals –

Martin Slattery Martin Paul Slattery (born 30 December 1973 in Blackburn) is an English multi-instrumentalist and composer. He plays electric guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, saxophone, and flute. Slattery was first a member of Joe Strummer's backing band Th ...

*Percussion –

Ged Lynch Ged Lynch (born 19 July 1968, Blackburn, England) is an English percussionist and composer. Lynch had early commercial success drumming with the Ruthless Rap Assassins. In 1989 he joined The Icicle Works. He joined Shaun Ryder and Bez in Bla ...

(1,5), Pablo Cook (8,11) *Scratches – Peter Barrow (7) *Strings – Ellen Blair (7), Jill Morley (7), Marsha Skins (7), Vicky Mathews (4,7) *Trumpet – Duncan Mcay (10) *Vocals – Beccy Byrne (6), Paul Heaton, Sharon Eusebe (3), Zoe Johnston (7)

Technical

*Producer – Martin Slattery, Scott Shields *Engineer, Programming, Producer – Richard Flack *Executive-Producer – Jon Kelly *Photography – Lawrence Watson *Illustration – Tracy Worrall *Design – Ryan Art

References

2002 debut albums Mercury Records albums Paul Heaton albums {{2002-rock-album-stub