From Hackney to Konk Studios: Fat White Family release live studio album

Fat White Family release ‘Konk If You’re Lonely: Fat White Family live at Konk Studios’, an album featuring their most incendiary moments recorded live in one day at London’s Konk Studios, today.

The album features a live recording of a band at the peak of their powers, capturing their ever-evolving arrangements in high fidelity, recorded in a day at a world class studio in London.

Fat White Family ended 2024 with three sold-out ‘Counter-Vortex 360º’ shows at the Colour Factory in Hackney Wick. For these shows, the band played in the middle of the room on a square stage that resembled a boxing ring with the audience gathered around them on all sides. The shows were typically raucous affairs but, due in part to the novel setup of the room, there was an added intimacy between the band and their fans. An understanding that they were all in this together. The shows were, of course, complete triumphs, yet another file in the dossier marked ‘The best live band in the country’.

A few days after these shows, the band headed to London’s Konk Studios to get the set down for posterity’s sake. The album shows a band at the top of their game, oozing swagger and controlled abandon. The Fat White Family cast has forever been a revolving door of interesting and lively characters, each iteration brilliant in its own right, but they have never sounded better than on the 13 career-spanning tracks that make up ‘Konk If You’re Lonely’.