FatCat 18th Birthday Parties at The Brighton Festival STARTS TONIGHT

16/05/08

With 2008 marking 18 years since FatCat first started up as a little record store in Crawley, we will be celebrating our 18th birthday with two special FatCat-curated nights THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY - 16th and 17th May*. In partnership with The Great Escape and The Brighton Festival, the nights take place at the stunning 200-year-old Theatre Royal in Brighton.

Full details of the nights are as follows:

Fri 16th May: Vashti Bunyan, Vetiver, Tom Brosseau, Hauschka
Sat 17th May: Nina Nastasia, The Twilight Sad, Frightened Rabbit, Silje Nes
The Theatre Royal, Brighton
Tickets: £15, £6 gallery
Doors: 7.30pm. First acts on 8pm sharp.

You can find further info and book tickets here.
There are still tickets left

A special limited edition screen-printed poster has been designed for the night by Jemma Treweek. Pictured above, these will be available to buy on the night. Jemma is an illustrator and printmaker and member of BRAG, The British Rock Art Group, who are a Brighton based group of printers and craftspeople committed to re-installing the tradition of beautiful, screen-printed, collectable, promotional gig posters.

Silje Nes Session Online / Tour News

15/05/08

You can check out a recent Silje Nes session - her first ever! - recorded live in the studio during her recent US tour for PRI's Fair Game.
Silje plays three songs, 'Dizzy Street', 'Giant Disguise' and 'Ames Room' all of which feature on her recent debut album for FatCat.
Stretched out and stripped down, these three great versions sound even more brittle than on record and form a pretty cool session.

Silje is due over to the UK for a short run of live shows, kicking off with an appearance this Saturday at the Brighton Festival, and culminating in her own headline show at The Lillian Baylis Theatre at Sadler's Wells. The full list of dates runs as follows:

17 May - Fat Cat records night at The Brighton Festival, The Theatre Royal, Brighton, UK (w/ Nina Nastasia, The Twilight Sad, Frightened Rabbit. Onstage 7.30 pm)

17 May - Norwegian Music Night at The Great Escape, Duke of York's Cinema, Brighton, UK (Onstage 11.20pm)

21 May - The Basement Bar, York, UK (w/ Madam)

22 May - The Glee Club, Birmingham, UK (w/ Madam)

23 May - Upstairs at Whelans, Dublin, Ireland (w/ Madam)

25 May - Lilian Baylis studio at Sadlers Wells, London, UK
tickets on sale here.

Vetiver Tour - New Dates Added / Final Route

13/05/08

Vetiver arrive this week for a great-looking 34-date tour of UK / Europe. The final four dates have just been added (in Toulouse, Nantes, Rouen and Zichem), and the final tour route is posted below. We'd like to remind London fans again that the London date has changed. Previously scheduled to take place at St. Giles in The Fields, the show has been moved to another church, St Pancras Parish Church, on the Euston Road. Anyone who has already bought tickets for the St. Giles show will find they remain valid for St. Pancras Parish Church. The show will see Vetiver supported by a great line up of Meg Baird (of Espers), David Thomas Broughton, and Adrian Crowley. Tickets cost £11 and are available in advance here.

The band's tour kick off in May at the Fatcat Brighton Festival show on the 16th. The band have recently added a show in Zurich on 20th May, and the show on 4th June in Manchester has changed venue to Dulcimer. Any original tickets sold will remain valid, and tickets remain available from the same outlets.
Vetiver will be releasing a brand new LP on May 26th entitled Thing Of The Past, that sees the bands covering some of their favourite tracks.

16 May -Theatre Royal, Brighton, UK Fat Cat Festival
17 May - Botanique Arts Fest, Brussels, BE
18 May - Das Kreuz, Fulda (Frankfurt market), DE
20 May - Rote Fabrik, Zurich, CH
21 May - Paradiso Small Hall, Amsterdam, NL
23 May - Tin Angel Coventry, UK
26 May - Barfly, Cambrige UK
27 May - Faversham, Leeds, UK
28 May - Sound City Festival, Liverpool, UK
29 May - Cabaret Voltaire Edinburgh Glasgow UK
30 May - Arches Glasgow, UK
31 May - The Tunnels, Aberdeen, UK
01 Jun - Cluny Newcastle, UK
02 Jun - Bodega Social, Nottingham, UK
03 Jun - Cube, Bristol, UK
04 Jun - Dulcimer, Manchester, UK - CHANGED VENUE
05 Jun - St Pancras Parish Church,, London, UK - CHANGED VENUE
06 Jun - Barfy, Cardiff, UK
08 Jun - Crawdaddy, Dublin, IRE
09 Jun - Black Box, Belfast, UK
10 Jun - Barfly, Birmingham, UK
13 Jun - Passos Manuel, Porto, PT
14 Jun - ZDB gallery, Lisbon, PT
17 Jun - Sidecar, Barcelona, ES
18 Jun - Joy Eslave, Madrid, ES w/ Akron/family
19 Jun - Teatro Central, Seville, ES w/ Akron/Family
20 Jun - Teatro Alhambra, Granada, ES w/ Akron/Family
21 Jun - Teatro Canovas, Malaga, ES w/ Akron/Family
23 Jun - Le cri de la Mouette, Toulouse, FR - NEW DATE
24 Jun - Café Grimault, Nantes FR - NEW DATE
25 Jun - Emporium Gallorium,Rouen FR - NEW DATE
26 Jun - Den Hemel, Zichem , BE - NEW DATE
27 Jun - Café De la Danse, Paris, FR
29 Jun - Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury, UK

Tom Brosseau Plays Brighton Gallery Show

13/05/08

Following his show at FatCat's 18th Birthday event at The Brighton Festival this Friday (16th May), Tom Brosseau will play a much more intimate show on Sunday evening (*18th May*) at The Fairtrade Gallery in Kemptown. Very limited tickets are available for £5, and can be had by phoning 07990 - 511576.
You can find further info about the gallery here