''You Fat Bastards: Live at the Brixton Academy'' is the only officially released live album by

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. It was recorded by William Shapland on April 28, 1990, in the

Brixton Academy Brixton Academy (originally known as the Astoria Variety Cinema, previously known as Carling Academy Brixton, currently named O2 Academy Brixton as part of a sponsorship deal with the O2 brand) is a mid-sized concert venue located in South Lon ...

, London during the tour supporting their third studio album '' The Real Thing''. The album takes its title from a line from an English

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which was sung by the crowd at the show. It was released on August 20, 1990, internationally and as an audio only version, under the name of ''Live at the Brixton Academy'', in the United Kingdom on February 4, 1991, with two bonus tracks from ''The Real Thing'' sessions. The bonus tracks "The Grade" and "The Cowboy Song" were previously released on the "From Out of Nowhere" 12-inch single but were added to this compilation in order for them to be available on CD. As a result, they do not appear on the vinyl release of ''Live at the Brixton Academy''. The performance of the

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song "

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" was later included on the 1994 Black Sabbath tribute compilation '' Nativity in Black'', making it the album's only live track. The reason for including this version, instead of the studio version from ''The Real Thing'' album, is unclear. The video version was later released on a 2-disc DVD set with the video compilation '' Who Cares a Lot? The Greatest Videos''.

Track lists

''4 Live from 5 Fat Bastards''

The promotional version contained four tracks from the same recording. Some rare copies of it came with a rubber fish, a reference to the music video for "Epic" which apparently

Mike Patton Michael Allan Patton (born January 27, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and voice actor, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock bands Faith No More and Mr. Bungle. He has also fronted and/or played with Tomahawk, The ...

was unaware of.the FNM discography
retrieved on August 25, 2009

Personnel

;Faith no More *

(credited as Michael Patton) – vocals * Jim Martin – guitar *

Billy Gould William David Gould (born April 24, 1963) is an American musician and producer. He is best known as the bassist of Faith No More. Biography Early years Gould was born on April 24, 1963, in Los Angeles, and he is of Scottish and Hungarian desce ...

– bass *

Roddy Bottum Roswell Christopher Bottum (born July 1, 1963) is an American musician, best known as the keyboardist for the San Francisco alternative metal band Faith No More. He is also guitarist and co-lead vocalist for the pop group Imperial Teen, best know ...

– keyboards *

Mike Bordin Michael Andrew Bordin (born November 27, 1962) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock band Faith No More. He has amicably been known as "Puffy", "Puffster" or "The Puff", in reference to the afro hair style he wore in ...

– drums ;Production * Matt Wallace – mixing, producer on "The Grade" and "The Cowboy Song" *Jessica Barford – producer *John Booth – director *Will Shapland – engineer

Certifications

Footnotes

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