Doc on five row button accordion and bass, bass drum and vocals
Skiprat on fiddle, mandolin and vocals
Matey on triangle, washboard, bodhran, tambourine, cowbell, cabassa, thunderbox, vocals, screams, shouts and yells
Influences
The Pogues,Spirit of the West, Swamptrash, Decemberists, Waterboys, Sharon Shannon, Buttermountain Boys,ukrainians,ron kavana,steve earle,
Archive Slideshow- See how we used to be!
FAT MEDICINE - JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED!
It can be hard to figure out where all the sound is coming from when you watch Fat Medicine perform. A full rounded sound is achieved more in keeping with a five-piece outfit, but there are really only three of them. Skip, lead singer/ front man could keep you entertained for hours just by talking, but is a dab hand on mandolin and fiddle, while Doc squeezes out a melodic accordion, driving bass, bass drum and vocals. Matey provides a catchy foot-stomping beat, with a mix of Veste frattoir, triangle and rhythmic percussion instruments.
Their sheer enjoyment of music comes through in their highly entertaining performances. To keep interest high they have the audience on the edge of their seats ready to dance and guessing what will come next - could it be, driving Irish traditional jigs and reels, an Eastern European waltz, a Jewish wedding dance, a Pogues cover, or many a classic song, all given the full Fat Medicine treatment?
Fat Medicine add a vibrant punch to the folk music scene being once described as ‘ a lucid beacon of heartfelt musical creativity, stomped out in a wacko windmill of superb music’.
A prescription to cure all ills from the Celtic specialists.
Fat Medicine are not to be missed
Couldn't believe my eyes when I seen one of your posters up at work. Didn't realize that you were still going. Remember seeing you at The Dickens Inn loads of times years ago and had such great nights bought one of your tapes and played it to death. Has moose left ?
Will have to catch one of your gigs. Do you still have any tapes from years ago ?
The Irish outlaw Reilly Ramones is not rambling along rainy green Irish valleys. This time he troubles the spotless under the hot Mexican sun and drowns Mariachi trumpets in Guinness. Come and listen to the fine crossover of traditional irish tunes, Rock'n Roll and Hip Hop on the new album "Kind Of Green". www. myspace. com/insearchofarose
