Since the birth of the label in 1997, FatCat has always had a solid engagement with material sent to us as demos. Where numerous labels will throw demos straight into the trash unopened, at FatCat we've always made an effort to listen and reply to every demo received. Numerous FatCat artists have been picked up having been discovered in this way (including Frightened Rabbit, The Twilight Sad, David Karsten Daniels, Welcome, Odonis Odonis, Get Back Guinozzi!, Silje Nes, Ensemble, Xinlisupreme, Songs Of Green Pheasant, Janek Schaefer - to name just a few), and it has always been really exciting to unexpectedly discover something great in this way. Just as when we started, this philosophy of keeping an ear to the ground and attempting to support good new creativity remains at the core of what we do.

With rapid changes in technology of recent years, the majority of demos are now sent to us electronically, but we are still happy to receive material through the post as CDs (please mark as 'demo submission' and mail FatCat Records, PO Box 3400, Brighton, BN1 4WG). Whilst we are still receiving a high quantity of demos, with our ever-busy release schedule and ongoing commitments to an expanding roster of signed artists, FatCat are now finding fewer opportunities to physically release material from new artists. As an antidote to this, back in 2004, we began using our website to showcase the best of the demos we were receiving. Alongside a DIY microsite built specifically to help people who wanted to release their own music, we hosted the our favourite demos online, with artwork and MP3s available for free download. In 2010 we began to use the more immediate freedom of SoundCloud as a platform - setting up a dropbox for people to submit tracks to and a player on the front of our site to showcase the best demo submissions. 

In February 2012, the new and improved FatCat demo site you are now using was launched, again using SoundCloud as the engine to drive the site. We have kept all of the the original demo artists on the new site - grouping them in collections archived by year. There is a lot of really great material stored away here, so please do spend some time looking around. 

The choices of who we have asked to join this archive are highly selective, and we make no apologies for this. These are tracks we consider to be really good quality material, tracks that we are happy to help promote and to have associated with FatCat. If you like what you hear here, then please do download the tracks and share this music with your friends.

I was born in 1979 in Greece and i live in my hometown Nafpaktos. I'm an amateur guitar player who plays a little bit of piano, harmonica and bass. I 'm also  trying to sing sometimes. Thanks for listening!!!

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Cate Le Bon is an artist hailing from Carmarthenshire, rural West Wales. Be it on her more minimalist, acoustic-leaning 2009 debut album Me Oh My or critically acclaimed, liquid-riffed 2013 LP Mug Museum as well as 2016s Crab Day and the Mercury Award nominated Reward, Cate Le Bon’s solo work — and indeed also her production work, such as that carried out on the recent John Grant album, Boy From Michigan, or  Deerhunter's Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?  (4AD, January 2019) — has always resisted pigeonholing, walking the tightrope between krautrock aloofness and heartbreaking tenderness; deadpan served with a twinkle in the eye, a flick of the fringe and a lick of the Telecaster.

New album Pompeii bears a storied title summoning apocalypse, but the metaphor eclipses any “dissection of immediacy,” says Le Bon. Sonically minimal in parts, its lyrics jog between self-reflection and direct address. Written primarily on bass and composed entirely alone in an “uninterrupted vacuum,” Le Bon plays every instrument (except drums and saxophones) and recorded the album largely by herself with long-term collaborator and co-producer Samur Khouja in Cardiff, Wales.

The songs of Pompeii feel suspended in time, both of the moment and instant but reactionary and Dada-esque in their insistence to be playful, satirical, and surreal. From the spirited, strutting bass fretwork of “Moderation”, to the sax-swagger of “Running Away”; a tale exquisite in nature but ultimately doomed (The fountain that empties the world / Too beautiful to hold), escapism lives as a foil to the outside world. Pompeii’s audacious tribute to memory, compassion, and mortal salience is here to stay.

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past :
08/03/19 - Ancienne Belgique - Bruxelles
25/02/19 - Botanique - Bruxelles 
19/12/19 - "Ensemble" +Cécile di Giovanni - Palais de Tokyo
12/12/19 - "Ensemble" +Cécile di Giovanni - Palais de Tokyo 
23/11/19 - DJSET - Wet for me - La Machine - Paris
7/11/19 - Restless Youth - Maison de l'Histoire Européenne - Bruxelles
1/10/19 - Silencio - Paris ( Live acoustique ) 
5/10/19 - La Bonneterie - Nantes ( Live acoustique ) 
29/06/19 - Moco - Montpellier
22-06/19 - Festival Les Enfants Sauvages - Paris 
6/06/19- OUT LOUD Festival - beursschouwburg - Bruxelles
18/05/19- Bateau Rouge Festival - La Forestière FR
17/05/19- Festival Big Bang (1ère partie Christophe)Saint-Médard en Jalles
4/05/19- Les Aralunaires Festival - Arlon BE
26/04/19- Les Nuits Botanique - Bruxelles BE
29/03/19 - Teatro Lucido - Mexico city
17/03/19- Tenant of the trees - Los Angeles - USA
02/03/19 - NRMAL Festival - Mexico city
05/03/19- Jam w/ tba - Departamento Studio Bar  - Mexico
07/03/19 - Departamento Studio Bar - Mexico city
09/03/19- Ruda Café - Coatepec
24/01/19 : Botanique, Brussels, BE
30/11/18 : Silencio, Release Party, Paris
10/11/18 : Independant, Bruxelles, BE
07/11/18 : Les Trois Baudets, Paris
04/10/18 : Le Vecteur, Charleroi, BE
07/09/18 : Rat's cup festival, Biarritz
27/04/18 : Brass, Bruxelles
10/03/18 : I Boat, Bordeaux
8/03/18 : Badaboum, Paris (Perez release Party)
28/10 : Le Reflektor, Liège, BE
20/10 : Berlin - The Liberate - SS018 Lou de Bètoly

13/10 : Le Pop Up du Label, Paris (concert acoustique)
3/10 : Koko Club, Londres (Performance)
28/09 : Le Bourg, Lausanne, Suisse
20/07 : Francofolies de Spa, Spa, BE
8/07 : Les Ardentes festival, Liège, BE (showcase pro) 
10/06 : Festival Crossover, les abattoirs, Nice
6/05 : (DJset !) la Pop tranquille, le Pavillon des Canaux, Paris 
13/05 : Pete the Monkey-warm up party, Le Pop Up du Label, Paris
29/03 : Qui va piano va solo, Église Saint-Merri, Paris.
18/03/17 - Botanique - Bruxelles 
18/02/17 - Conseil des Musiques, Bruxelles 
04/02/17 - Ballades Sonores, Bruxelles (showcase)
20/01/17 - Le Poste à Galène, Marseille 
15/12 - Sentimientos - Pop Up du Label - Paris
7/11 - Le Nouveau Casino - Paris
18/11 - Festival des Inrocks - La Cigale - Paris
16/10 - Maison de la Création - Bruxelles
8/10 - Festival Franco Faune - Bruxelles - théâtre 140 
16/07/16 Pete the Monkey Festival, Saint-Aubin sur Mer 
4/06/16 We Love Green Festival, Paris -
11/06/16 Frac Maison Salvan, Toulouse - 
7/04/16 - La Gaîté Lyrique - support Jay Jay Johanson
2/04/16 - Bourges - Le Nadir
1/04/16 - Paris - Les Femmes s'en Mêlent - Madame Arthur 
4/03/16 - Paris - Le Pop Up du Label - France Galipette
27/01/16 - Paris - Les Trois Baudets 
9/12/15 - Paris - Le Pop Up du Label
21/10/15 – Paris - Aaah Paris Internationale.
04/11/15 – Paris (75), Le 19h19 des inRocKs lab - La Gaité Lyrique
21/11/15 – Londres (Uk), David Roberts Art Foundation
11/07/15 -  Le LAC, Brussels (JOLIE-LAIDE TOUR with Ectopia)
- 12/07/15 -  Rollins St Yard SE15, London
-3/07/15 - festival Mon Inouïe symphonie, Dunkerque

Somos Elephant Kill Lion. We are pleased to share our music with you

Members
Hansel Gonzalez Linares: Vocalista y guitarra 
Kevin Barriga: Bajo 
Julio Bastidas: Guitarra y coros

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