Fat Dog will release their debut album, WOOF., on September 6th via Domino Records.  The LP was Produced by Joe Love, James Ford (Arctic Monkeys,Gorillaz, Shame) and Jimmy Robertson. Ahead of it’s arrival, the London band share new single/video “I am the King.” “It was written in the toilets of the Wetherspoons pub in Forest Hill,” says frontman Joe Love. “I Am The King” follows lead single “Running” alongside “All the Same” and “King of the Slugs.”

Directed by Dylan Coates and Travis Barton, the video for “I am the King” opens on a scene of the band mourning and weeping at the side of Love’s grave and progresses to the King himself parachuting from the sky out of a helicopter.

After forming, Fat Dog made two rules: they were going to be a healthy band who looked after themselves and there would be no saxophone presence in their music. Two simple edicts to live by, and two things long-since broken by the Brixton five-piece. “Yeah, it’s all gone out the window,” says Love.

Life is too short to stick to any plans you made in the unsettling, strait-jacketed times of 2021 anyway. That was when Fat Dog came together, Love deciding to form a group and take the demos he had been making at home as a way to keep himself sane during lockdown out into the world. In Chris Hughes (keyboards/synths), Ben Harris (bass), Johnny Hutchinson (drums) and Morgan Wallace (keyboards and, umm, saxophone), Love found like-minded mavericks to help bring the dream home. “A lot of music at the moment is very cerebral and people won’t dance to it,” says Hughes. “Our music is the polar opposite of thinking music.”

Hughes should know. He was a fan of the band, at that point making a name for themselves with a series of exhilarating and/or wonky shows across south London, before he was in the band. Those formative gigs formed the bedrock of what Fat Dog were all about, seizing the moment, drinking too much with the moment, going home separately from the moment but making up with the moment again the next day.

“There’s a sense of community about Fat Dog,” says Hutchinson.

Fat Dog 2024 Tour Dates

Wed. June 26 – Sun. June 30 – Somerset, UK @ Glastonbury Festival
Sat. Jul. 6 – Belfort, FR @ Eurockéennes
Wed. July. 10 – Sat. July 13 – Træna, NO @ Trӕnafestivalen
Thu. July 11- Sat. July 13 – Normandy, FR @ Pete The Monkey Festival
Thu. July 18 – Sat. July 20 – Smolnik, SK @ Festival 66 Hodin
Wed. July 17 – Sat. July 20 – Ostrava, CZ @ Colors of Ostrava
Thu. July 25 – Sun. July 28 – Suffolk, UK @ Latitude Festival
Fri. July 26 – Sun. July 28 – Oxfordshire, UK @ Truck Festival
Fri. Jul. 26 – Mon. Jul. 29 – North Yorkshire, UK @ Deer Shed
Sat. Aug. 3 – Leeds, UK @ Millennium Square (w/ Yard Act)
Fri. Aug. 9 – Rees-Haldern, DE @ Haldern Pop
Sat. Aug. 10 – Winterthur, CH @ Musikfestwochen
Sun. Aug. 11 – Sicily, IT @ Ypsigrock Festival
Fri. Aug. 16 – Brittany, FR @ La Route Du Rock
Sat. Aug. 17 – Biddinghuizen, NL @ Lowlands Festival
Sun. Aug. 18 – Hasselt, BE @ Pukkelpop Festival
Fri. Aug. 30 – Vlieland, NL @ Into the Great Wide Open
Sat. Aug. 31 – Manchester, UK @ Manchester Psych Fest
Sat. Sept. 7 – London, UK @ Rough Trade East
Sun. Sept. 8 – Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade
Mon. Sept. 9 – Nottingham, UK @ Rough Trade
Tue. Sept. 10 – Liverpool, UK @ Rough Trade
Sat. Sept. 14 – Rome, IT @ Spring Attitude Festival
Sun. Sept. 15 – Trento, IT @ Poplar Festival
Mon. Sept. 16 – Milan, IT @ ARCI Bellezza
Sat. Sept. 28 – Sheffield, UK @ Float Along Festival
Thu. Oct. 3 – Rouen, FR @ Le 106
Fri. Oct. 4 – Rennes, FR @ L’Antipode
Sat. Oct. 5 – Paris, FR @ Petit Bain
Sun. Oct. 6 – Tourcoing, FR @ Le Grand Mix
Tue. Oct. 8 – Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje
Wed. Oct. 9 – Groningen, NL @ VERA
Thu. Oct. 10 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique
Fri. Oct. 11 – Amsterdam, NL @ Skatecafe
Sat. Oct. 12 – Tilburg, NL @ Here’s the Thing Festival
Mon. Oct. 14 – Cologne, DE @ Bumann & Sohn
Tue. Oct. 15 – Hamburg, DE @ Molotow
Wed. Oct. 16 – Berlin, DE @ Urban Spree
Sat. Oct. 19 – Toronto, ON @ The Baby G
Mon. Oct. 21 – Washington, DC @ Songbyrd
Tue. Oct. 22 – Ridgewood, NY @ TV Eye
Thu. Oct. 24 – Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle
Sat. Oct. 26 – Seattle, WA @ Black Lodge
Sun. Oct. 27 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
Tue. Oct. 29 – San Francisco, CA @ Popscene @ Brick & Mortar Music Hall
Wed. Oct. 30 – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon
Thu. Nov. 7 – Dublin, IR @ The Grand Social
Fri. Nov. 8 – Belfast, UK @ Empire Music Hall
Sat. Nov. 9 – Glasgow, UK @ Stereo
Sun. Nov. 10 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Tue. Nov. 12 – Nottingham, UK @ Rescue Rooms
Wed. Nov. 13 – Manchester, UK @ Band On The Wall
Thu. Nov. 14 – Sheffield, UK @ Crookes Social Club
Fri. Nov. 15 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla
Sat. Nov. 16 – Birmingham, UK @ Mama Roux’s
Sun. Nov. 17 – Cardiff, UK @ Clwb Ifor Bach
Thu. Nov. 21 – Southampton, UK @ Papillon
Fri. Nov. 22 – Brighton, UK @ Patterns [SOLD OUT]
Sat. Nov. 23 – London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town

Pre-order WOOF. by Fat Dog HERE