...ever heard of a group called Fat & Fucked Up?

Never heard the band myself but I remember hearing about them during the '80s/'90s here in L.A.

Here's why I thought of you...

PICK OF THE WEEK: L.A. Weekly (sometime in 1992)
Fat & Fucked-Up at The Lounge Lizard Lounge (Hollywood)



Thrash-classical chamber group Fat and Fucked-Up hail from those queasy days of the warm and groovy arts scene when it seemed like everybody and his brother from Downey was in a band of some sort. In fact, Fat and Fucked Up started as a joke, legend has it that when they would catch the fragrant wind of self-promoting rockers, viola player Josie Roth and cellist Michael Intriere spurted out that they were in Fat and Fucked Up (even though the combo didn't exist). After a while they started to actually get gigs so they figured that they hade to do something besides cause scenes at parties. And now, over a decade and countless weird performances later, here ís Fat and Fucked Up at a trendy as all get-out Hollywood bar, still sawing away to handfuls of people. Joined by french-horn blower Luiz Sampaio, Non credo's Kira Vollman on clarinet and Jon Huck on contrabass, they weedle, twiddle, plunk and howl through a wholly imporvised set that veers wildly from pedestrian pizzicatos to chillingly lovely blends of sounds that still even seem to surprise them as they go. Shock them by showing up. At the Lounge Lizard Lounge at Club Maxx. -Jac Zinder
http://www.theoretical.com/fucked.html





Halloween, 1990

was among the many memorable F&F'dUp events. Performed in Santa Barbara at the prestigious Center Stage Theater, a large and attentive audience was thrilled by the "...Los Angeles chamber rogues." Here's a portion of the review that was published in the local press:

"...they sauntered on to the set of the play 'Vacuum' and immediately began using and abusing the shabby domestic scene-- wandering about, Looking in the refrigerator, slouching in the couch , engaging in telephone gibberish or having vacuum cleaner wars during a mock-serious cello/horn duet.
Repeatedly they poked fun at their own musical instincts. These are not just dadaist clowns with no respect for what is true and "straight" in chamber music or any other indefinable idiom. As volatile and off-the-wall as Fat and Fucked Up is, the group exercises better music through interactive chemistry. Operating without the safety net of written material, they have a strong sense of improvisatory dialogue, and the group's odd instrumental grouping allows for nice textural balance.
'Illegitimate' instrumental techniques are part of the group's signature. Any form of sound production is valid and desirable including banging on instrument cases, bow-bouncing, or playing only the mouthpiece. It's all fair game."

-Josef Woodard, The Independent (Santa Barbara), November 8, 1990

The members consisted of:
Michael Intriere [founding member on cello]
Josie Roth [founding member on vocals and viola]
Kraig Grady [symbols, xylophone, harmonium]
Jon Huck [bass fiddle]
Mary Mullen [vocals and bass fiddle]
Bill Roper [tuba]
Luiz Sampaio [French horn and vocals]
Monica Townsend [viola]
Kira Vollman [saxaphone]

http://www.theoretical.com/fucked2.html
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tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

Sounds pretty crazy



and I

like this

This reminds me of the Punk Rock Orchestra when we play "We're a Happy Family" by the Ramones and the whole piece dissolves into utter chaos as the entire orchestra gets into a screaming fight onstage.



Well, now that's scary. I gotta have my safety net, it gives me something to hide behind.

And thanks Audience for thinking of me. You wouldn't believe the kind of day I was having, and this brought a little into the

heartbeatocean said:

Glad to help you feel a bit better.

tA

Tribal Disorder