Fat Dog have announced their new album Cancel Me (I’m Tired). The lead single was inspired by John Lennon’s “How Do You Sleep” combined with frontman/songwriter Joe Love imagining what Anatolian rock experimentalists Altın Gün would sound like if they were under siege from a thumping club beat. The title track begins with “If you wanna cancel me/Then go ahead and do it please,” It’s the sound of what happens when people push your buttons and your buttons start pushing back. The album is the follow up to their 2024 debut album WOOF. Cancel Me (I’m Tired) by Fat Dog will drop on October 2nd via Domino Records. This week, Fat Dog join Foo Fighters on a run of stadium shows and ahead of their headline UK & European tour starting late October.

When it was time to think about album 2, the band’s ringleader threw himself into recording sessions a day after landing home from a chaotic US tour in which each member of the band took turns in unravelling. “At some point on that tour, everyone had a small breakdown of some sort,” says Chris, who remembers losing his mind in LA, bashing his head against a wall whilst wearing an American Football helmet.

It wasn’t all nervous meltdowns. Romance was also in the air and, midway through the trek, Fat Dog’s frontman got married in Vegas after proposing to his girlfriend in San Francisco. “We played a gig to two people in Vegas,” Joe recalls, “and then the next day I got married.”

And so, it was with depressed Elvis ringing in his ears that Joe got home and began work on the second Fat Dog album. On their debut, Love had left the lyrics until last, letting the heady momentum of the music lead the way, but this time he felt he had much more to say. Into its lyrical orbit, the record pulls mentions of addiction, family ties, love, AI, ancestry, extra-terrestrials, Chris Tarrant, S&M, B&M, H&M and M&Ms.

Fat Dog
Cancel Me (I’m Tired)
Tracklist

Smile and Wave
Go Fuck Urself
Cancel Me (I’m Tired)
Heart Of Darkness
Shit Love
Call It What You Want
Snakes
Bad Dog
The Devil
Aliens

Tour Dates

07/01 – Olympiastadion, Berlin, DE (supporting Foo Fighters)

07/03 – Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, AT (supporting Foo Fighters)

07/05 – Ippodromo Snai La Maura, Milan, IT (supporting Foo Fighters)

07/10 – Pohoda Festival, Trenčín, SL

07/11 – Décibulles Festival, Neuve-Église, Alsace, FR

07/12 – Chauffeer Dans La Noirceur, Normandy, FR

07/17 – Rock Herk, Herk-de-Stag, BE

07/18 – Dour Festival, Dour, BE

07/23 – SEI Festival, Brindisi, IT

07/24 – TV Spenta, Siena, IT

07/25 – Deershed, Topcliffe, UK

08/08 – Pop Messe, Brno, CZ

08/29 – Rock’n’Roll Circus, Sheffield, UK

09/05 – End of the Road Festival, Larmer Tree Gardens, UK

09/17–09/19 – Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, DE

10/24 – O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK

10/29 – De Roma, Antwerp, BE

10/30 – Tivoli, Utrecht, NL

10/31 – Elysee Montmarte, Paris, FR

11/01 – Stereolux, Nantes, FR

11/03 – Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing, FR

11/04 – Die Kantine, Cologne, DE

11/06 – Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE

11/07 – Loppen, Copenhagen, DK

11/14 – Victoria Warehouse, Manchester, UK

11/18 – Whelans, Dublin, IE

11/19 – Whelans, Dublin, IE

11/20 – Limelight, Belfast, UK

11/24 – Depot, Cardiff, UK

11/25 – O2 Academy, Bristol, UK

11/26 – O2 Institute, Birmingham, UK

11/27 – O2 Academy, Leeds, UK

11/28 – Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, UK

12/03 – Rock City, Nottingham, UK

Pre-order Cancel Me (I’m Tired) by Fat Dog HERE