hey all,
with mike on a break from andrew bird tour, fat kid wednesdays will be playing in the twin cities 4 times in 2 weeks....
mondays 2 & 9 at the clown lounge.  the 2nd we will be joined by a band from chicago, and the 9th we will play all night...
and if that wasn't enough.....friday the 13th(!) we are playing 2 gigs...
the first gig is at the dakota opening for our friend haley bonar, we play from 7pm-7:30....after you watch haley you can high-tail it over to cafe maude to catch the end of our other gig that night where we play from 9pm til midnight. 
please come and check out one/some/or all these gigs as we won't be playing in town unti sometime in late april or early may as all three of us will be off playing music around the world...(mike with bird, jt w/ francois corneloup, and adam with todd clouser)  . . . . . . .  . . . .
hope to see you !!!
-jt & fkw

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/goingson/2009/01/fat-kid-wednesd.html

an absolutely wonderful review by richard brody.  thanks to craig taborn for bringing us out to the stone! 

hey there,
just thought i'd leave a note here about the fact that we've got some great music down at the clown lounge while we are on tour, so please go down and support those guys.
nov 1-tba
nov 10th-erik fratzke and tim glenn
nov 17th-anthony cox, milo fine, and i believe davu seru as well...

thanks!
fkw

hey there,
we are very excited to be playing at the clown lounge again monday july 28th...
its been a while since we've played so please come on down and check it out.
also appearing is volcano insurance(luke polipnick, chris bates, joey van philips) .
6 bucks 10:30.
fat kids 1st
volcano 2nd
fat kids 3rd.

party.
turfclub.net for more info

hey this fella dave king told me about this blog that he saw....
very kind words from richard brody. very great to get some press through the new yorker w/o having ever played in new york.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/goingson/2008/05/jazz-week-fat-k.html

and also mentioned in a very short but nice list here:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/05/19/080519on_onlineonly_remnick

thanks new yorker.
holy crap.
---fkw

hey there.
just a quick note to let everyone know that the last 2 fat kids cd's are now available on itunes.
singles(2006) and the art of cherry(2004) .

we'll be appearing tonight nov 2nd at the artists quarter(www.myspace.com/artistsquarter)
at 8pm. the concert is part of the tcjs' "jazz from j to z" series.
for more info and i nice write up:
http://tcjs.org/content/view/148/26/

thanks
-fkw

hello everybody,
we will be playing tonight at the nomad. double bill w/food four five, which features all the members of fat kids.
come on down,
$4 9:30pm.
thanks!
jt

check it out if you've got nothing better to do!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mjXBfkA7brk&search=brest

thanks.
fkw