The Brixton-based rock band The Fat White Family have launched a video appeal to get their fans to fund an upcoming tour to the US.
In the video, posted to Youtube by Guardian Guide today, two members of the band appear making the appeal from the bowels of the Queens Head pub, in Stockwell Road.
The band – who base themselves at the Queens Head – have so far courted controversy in Brixton by being behind “The Bitch is Dead” banners when Thatcher died, and organising a “Yuppies Out” protest when Champagne and Fromage first came to Granville Arcade.
For more an entertaining interview with the band see this from theQuietus.com.
The band had previously written to fans asking for funds by email. On their Pledgemusic.com page they write:
We have been invited across the Atlantic to play a string of shows at the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas, followed by a tour of the eastern seaboard finishing up in New York City. Bands are not paid for playing this disgusting industry hoedown, and first time fees stateside will barely cover gas and the one motel room we are likely to share each night after the shows. Indeed, even as I write this in the bowels of the Queen’s Head on Stockwell Road, the only thing perpetuating my will to exist is a Sainsbury’s ‘Taste the Difference’ Spaghetti Bolognese I weighed in as potatoes at the self service check out (88p nice!).
In return for your pledge we are offering ourselves up body and soul, for the next 6 weeks we are on sale. You can have the band come around to your house and cook you dinner, you can have any member of the band give you a special massage, you can purchase a 25 track limited edition anthology of rarities and b-sides, you can have us do some casual labour on your property, there is no low to which we shall not comfortably stoop; the future of bad taste is in your hands, don’t let it slide through your fingers and mucky your shoes.
If you think that is worth a few quid, visit www.pledgemusic.com/projects/fatwhitefamily
