Last month, Fat Dog announced second album Cancel Me (I’m Tired). The follow up to their breakout 2024 debut album WOOF., the album is due out October 2nd via Domino.
Announced with its title track last month, the album is an exhilarating, swaggering, panoramic, inventive, re-inventive, re-re-inventive electro-punk-art-pop-rock’n’roll-space-country triumph that deserves all the adjectives. Over ten mind-bending and melodic tracks, it blends electro-pop anthems, cascading rave bangers, bombastic strings, cowboy-tinged pitstops and swirling psychedelia.
Today, fresh off a run of stadium shows supporting Foo Fighters, Fat Dog are back to share another preview of the new album, a single called “Shit Love.” All stabbing synths, manic vocals and a beat that sounds like a rollercoaster trying to shake itself off the tracks, the track is, according to frontman Joe Love, about “two fucking insane people who argue constantly and they are world-enders every time.”
Today, Fat Dog are announcing their second album Cancel Me (I’m Tired). The album is the follow up to their celebrated debut album WOOF., which was released in 2024 and saw them become one of the UK’s most exciting breakthrough bands in the process.
The South London seven-piece Fat Dog have a good reason to be tired. They’ve spent the period since WOOF.’s release spreading their raucous, infectious and irresistible bark around the world. But if Fat Dog are tired with the world, the world is not tired of them. In fact, the world can’t get enough of them. Wherever they went on the tour to support WOOF., new diehards emerged out of the carnage. “Show of the weekend,” raved The Times after they played four shows in 27 hours at Glastonbury last year. “Unserious, unhinged and sensational,” marvelled NME. Their message spread far and wide.
Due out on October 2nd, with Cancel Me (I’m Tired)Fat Dog have created an exhilarating, swaggering, panoramic, inventive, re-inventive, re-re-inventive electro-punk-art-pop-rock’n’roll-space-country triumph that deserves all the adjectives. Over ten mind-bending and melodic tracks, it blends electro-pop anthems, cascading rave bangers, bombastic strings, cowboy-tinged pitstops and swirling psychedelia.
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 a riotous declaration. “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 video shot with director James Winstanley on the hottest day of the year, sees Fat Dog trying to avoid getting cancelled on an actual night out in London’s Soho.
“Cancel Me (I’m Tired)” follows the release of propulsive, jubilant electro-pop single “Go Fuck Urself” in May and the band’s storming support for Kneecap’s Crystal Palace gig last weekend – the only English band on the bill no less. 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. Cancel Me (I’m Tired) possesses all the rabid frenzy and electrifying excitement of their debut but now delivered on a grand and glorious scale. Big, big things are ahead. Fat Dog are only just getting going.
Cancel Me (I’m Tired) is available on DomMart exclusive picture disc vinyl in PVC sleeve, deluxe translucent green coloured vinyl, standard LP, CD and digitally. Pre-order: Fat Dog’s store | Digital
Fat Dog—the undefinable, raucous South London band—are back with a bang with their subtly named new single, “Go Fuck Urself.” With 80s-tinged, airy synths and dripping in melodica, “Go Fuck Urself” is three minutes of propulsive, jubilant electro-pop. It’s an irascible, exasperated rant wrapped in joyous hooks and Balearic grooves.
As frontman, songwriter and chief rabble rouser Joe Love coolly sings: “Some jokers play the same old game / No one to annoy / Find a mirror and the person to blame,” the song breaks out into a euphoric, technicolor anthem—an ode to escapism when the thing you are trying to escape is yourself.
Co-produced by Love with Oli Bayston (Kelly Lee Owens, Alexis Taylor), “Go Fuck Urself” follows Fat Dog’s standalone singles “Pray To That” and “Peace Song” and their “brilliant, dark, and downright batshit crazy” (DIY) debut album, WOOF., released in 2024.
The video, directed by Nine Screens (Dylan Coates and Travis Barton), sees the band take to a wrestling ring to convey the message they must share with the world. Watch the Video for Fat Dog’s “Go Fuck Urself.”
“Go Fuck Urself” marks the first taste of music from the band—Love, Chris Hughes, Morgan Wallace, Ellis Dickson, Michael Dunlop, Dillon Harrison and Jed Bevington—in 2026 and sets the stage for new music to come. Alongside the single, Fat Dog have confirmed a mammoth UK and European headline tour including a hometown show at London’s Brixton Academy on October 24th. Before that, the band will play their largest ever shows supporting the Foo Fighters at three European arena dates, support Kneecap at their Crystal Palace show in London, and play a number of festivals including End of the Road, Dour, Reeperbahn, Bearded Theory and more. It looks like we’re set for another Year of the Dog.
Fat Dog Tour Dates Sun. Jun 21 – Landgraaf, NL @ Pinkpop Festival Mon. Jun 22 – Zagreb, HR @ In Music Festival Sat. Jun 27 – London, UK @ Crystal Palace Park * Wed. Jul 1 – Berlin, DE @ Olympiastadion + Fri. Jul 3 – Vienna, AT @ Ernst-Happel-Stadion + Sun. Jul 5 – Milan, IT @ Ippodromo Snai La Maura + Fri. Jul 10 – Trenčín, SK @ Pohoda Festival Sat. Jul 11 – Neuve-Église, FR @ Décibulles Festival Sun. Jul 12 – Normandy, FR @ Chauffer Dans La Noirceur Fri. Jul 17 – Herk-de-Stad, BE @ Rock Herk Sat. Jul 18 – Dour, BE @ Dour Festival Thu. Jul 23 – Brindisi, IT @ SEI Festival Fri. Jul 24 – Siena, IT @ TV Spenta Sat. Jul 25 – Topcliffe, UK @ Deer Shed Festival Sat. Aug 8 – Brno, CZ @ Pop Messe Sat. Aug 29 – Sheffield, UK @ Rock’n’Roll Circus Sat. Sep 5 – Larmer Tree Gardens, UK @ End of the Road Festival Thu. Sep 17 – Sat. Sep 19 – Hamburg, DE @ Reeperbahn Festival Sat. Oct 24 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton Thu. Oct 29 – Antwerp, BE @ De Roma Fri. Oct 30 – Utrecht, NL @ Tivoli Sat. Oct 31 – Paris, FR @ Élysée Montmartre Mon. Nov 1 – Nantes, FR @ Stereolux Tue. Nov 3 – Tourcoing, FR @ Le Grand Mix Wed. Nov 4 – Cologne, DE @ Die Kantine Fri. Nov 6 – Berlin, DE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Sat. Nov 7 – Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen Sat. Nov 14 – Manchester, UK @ Victoria Warehouse Wed. Nov 18 – Dublin, IE @ Whelans Thu. Nov 19 – Dublin, IE @ Whelans Tue. Nov 24 – Cardiff, UK @ Depot Wed. Nov 25 – Bristol, UK @ O2 Academy Thu. Nov 26 – Birmingham, UK @ O2 Institute Fri. Nov 27 – Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy Sat. Nov 28 – Glasgow, UK @ Old Fruitmarket Thu. Dec 3 – Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
Today, Fat Dog unveil “Pray To That,” their second new single since the release of their brilliantly frenzied, “trippy, whiplash-inducing” (Variety) debut album, WOOF., last year. Following the “extra-dimensional pop song,” (Clash) “Peace Song,” and its accompanying remix, “Pray To That” is propelled at breakneck speed by an urgent four-to-the-floor beat and sees frontman Joe Love question the Fat Dog lifestyle with his deadpan humour: “Seven shits left to give / Yeah I’ll pray to that / I’m only 25 / Well it’s the same every night / She thought I’m 39.”
Recorded at Dan Carey’s studio, “Pray To That” was co-produced by Love and Carey. The equally unhinged video comes courtesy of Dylan Coates with Love starring as a wayward preacher.
Fresh off their triumphant Glastonbury set, Fat Dog continue their live assault this summer. Earlier in the summer, the band played five UK cities in just three days. The band will play a string of UK and European festivals before embarking on a September North American Tour, making stops in many cities they have yet to play in support of WOOF. A complete list of dates is available below, and tickets are now available here.
Fat Dog Tour Dates Fri. Aug. 8 – Cornwall, UK @ Boardmasters Wed. Aug. 6 -Sun. Aug. 10 – Winchester, UK @ Boomtown Sun. Aug. 10 – Budapest, HU @ Sziget Festival Thu. Aug. 14 – Paredes De Coura, PT @ Vodafone Paredes de Coura Fri. Aug. 15 – Charleville-Mézières, FR @Cabaret Vert Sat. Aug. 16 – Crickhowell, UK @ Green Man Fri. Aug. 22 – Northampton, UK @ Shambala Sat. Aug. 23 – Málaga, ES @ Canela Party Sun. Aug. 24 – Paris, FR @ Rock En Seine Wed. Aug. 27 – Sheffield, UK @ Utilita Arena % Sun. Aug. 31 – Seattle, WA @ Bumbershoot Festival Tue. Sept. 2 – Sacramento, CA @ Starlet Room Wed. Sept. 3 – San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop Thu. Sept. 4 – Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room Fri. Sept. 5 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy + Harriet’s Sat. Sept. 6 – San Diego, CA @ The Casbah Sun. Sept. 7 – Las Vegas, NV @ Swan Dive Sat. Sept. 20 – Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Mon. Sept. 22 – Raleigh, NC @ Kings Tue. Sept. 23 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery Wed. Sept. 24 – Philadelphia, PA @ Warehouse on Watts Thu. Sept. 25 – Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel Fri. Sept. 26 – Somerville, MA @ Warehouse XI Sat. Sept. 27 – Montreal, QC @ Toscadura Mon. Sept. 29 – Toronto, ON @ The Garrison Sat. Nov. 1 – Manchester, UK @ Day of the Dog Halloween Special @ Aviva Studios Thu. Nov. 6 – Reykjavik, IS @ Iceland Airwaves Sat. Nov. 8 – Kortrijk, BE @ Sonic City
South London-based Fat Dog have quickly made a name for themselves in the UK as “2023’s wildest live band” (NME) on the strength of their “manically riotous and joyous” (BBC 6 Music) live show supporting acts including Viagra Boys, Shame and Yard Act and playing their own headline gigs. Last summer, via Domino Records, they released debut single “King of the Slugs,” hailed by Clash as “a ridiculous seven-minute journey through sound . . . Utterly remarkable.” Today, the British five-piece return with the antidotal follow up, “All The Same,” and an accompanying video. Additionally, they announce they’ll make their US debut this spring playing SXSW, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Their next hometown show will be a headline gig in April at the 1500-capacity Electric Brixton, a sign of the genuine excitement growing around this band.
Co-produced by Fat Dog frontman Joe Love and James Ford, “All The Same” is propulsive and galvanizing, underpinned by orchestra hits and eagle noises as it races along to a dramatic conclusion in under three minutes. Fat Dog hint to the song’s narrative, suggesting: “What if you could turn the clock back and make a change? Just a single, well-placed kick, that perhaps could change the whole course of your life. Perhaps the party never has to stop?” The song’s video is a twisted, absurdist tale of time travel and fatherhood directed by Dylan Coates and starring Neil Bell (Dune, Andor).
A limited edition 7” of “All The Same” will be released on Fri. March 22nd backed by an exclusive B-side “Land Before Time.” Pre-order from Domino here.
Fat Dog Tour Dates: Thu. Jan. 18 – Groningen, NL @ Eurosonic Noorderslag 2024 Thu. Feb. 15 – Dublin, IE @ Borderline Festival Fri. Feb. 16 – Limerick, IE @ Dolans Sat. Feb. 17 – Galway, IE @ Róisín Dubh Sat. Feb. 24 – Bristol, UK @ Simple Things Fri. March 1 – Paris, FR @ Les Inrocks Festival, Cent Quatre Tue. March 12 – Queens, NY @ Trans-Pecos Wed. March 13 – Sat. March 16 – Austin, TX @ SXSW Tue. March 19 – Los Angeles, CA @ El Cid Wed. March 20 – San Francisco, CA @ Popscene @ Brick & Mortar Thu. Apr. 18 – London, UK @ Electric Brixton Sat. Apr. 20 – Rotterdam, NL @ Motel Mozaique Fri. Apr. 26 – Bourges, FR @ Le Printemps de Bourges Thu. May. 9 – Sat. May. 11 – Wrexham, UK @ Focus Wales Fri. May 31 – Sun. Jun. 2 – Mannheim, DE @ Maifeld Derby Sat. Jul. 6 – Belfort, FR @ Eurockéennes Fri. Jul. 26 – Mon. Jul. 29 – North Yorkshire, UK @ Deer Shed Thu. Aug. 8 – Sun. Aug. 11 – Sicily, IT @ Ypsigrock Festival Sat. Aug. 31 – Manchester, UK @ Manchester Psych Fest
