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Jack Sandison is a Scottish singer / songwriter based in Lerwick, Shetland. He is currently working on his second EP 'Karma, the Queen', produced by Tim Matthews at Mareel Recording Studio due out Summer 2019.

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.

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The Holy Ghosts, performed for the first time in January 2012 to spread the word of the rock n roll gospel. They are a five-piece band from Edinburgh playing Rock n' Roll/Country and a dash of the Blues. They draw inspiration from the 60s and 70s and apply a modern Scottish twist.

Performing live remains the groups forte with the use of razor sharp guitars, wailing harmonica, honky tonk piano, spine tingling three part harmonies and charismatic stage presence make them an exciting live performance. 

The Edinburgh five piece have already been making an impact on the Scottish music scene with festival slots up and down the country. They have also played alongside Shaun Ryder as main support in Edinburgh’s Liquid Rooms, played to a sold out crowd in the HMV Picture House, shared the stage with The Proclaimers at Heb Celt Festival, impressed Chris Helme from The Seahorses and was recently joined on stage by members from Alabama 3.

The band released their first EP 'Devil On Your Side EP' in March 2012 with Scottish producer Garry Boyle (Broken Records, The Banana Sessions and Stanley Odd) and Owen Morris (Oasis, The View), they went on to released their second EP - Voodoo Shakedown in March 2013. Both EP's have been aired across the UK on the BBC, Camden Unsigned, Alternative Manchester FM, Heartland FM and many university radio stations. 

They also recently picked up 'Best Newcomer' at this years SAMA 2013 and have also performed live on BBC ALBA for their RAPAL TV show. 

Their debut album is to be released Spring 2014 with 4 accompanying music videos.

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