Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Fat Truckers
The First Fat Truckers Album Is For Sale
(Roadtrain Recordings, 2003)
Sheffield electro deviants’ one and only belch into the void.
Reach into the 2002 folder of your mind, and try and remember a bootleg single that mixed Paperback Writer with crude electric beats and noise, and a loudhailer voice saying “Teenage Daughter!” The non-Fabs bit of this Richard X-produced bootmash was The Fat Truckers, and Teenage Daughter (the song) is the lead track on their one LP. This album is further proof of Sheffield as home of British techno – think The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, the Warp label – but in this instance, it’s of the coin-operated meter variety, with John Shuttleworth as custodian of the 10 pees. This album is a distorted, queasy affair, synthetic in nature, that’s motivated by seedy glamour and smirky comments on the rubbish things in life (see Superbike’s excited paean to Kowasaki motorbikes), with an accompanying interest in fallible technology (I Love Computers nostalgically recalls the joys of the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64). Other vividly realised songs include the nervy Anorexic Robot, which sees the vocalist putting on a Phil Oakey voice to tell a recalcitrant machine “You’ll have to be shut down… Error! Error!”, and survivalist loner psychodrama Lock And Load. Despite three singles, however, world domination was not forthcoming, and the band ceased to be in 2004. But while ex-members Ben Rymer went onto form the Gucci Soundsystem and Ross Orton worked with ex-Pulp man Steve Mackey on MIA’s album Arular, the Fat Truckers’ grubby magic lives on.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 10/07/2008
Further Listening
Add N To (X) – Add Insult To Injury (Mute, 2000)
Earl Brutus – Tonight You Are The Special One (Island, 1998)
The Future / The Human League – A Golden Hour Of The Future (Black Melody, 2002)
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