You Fat Bastards: Live at the Brixton Academy
You Fat Bastards: Live at the Brixton Academy is a live video album and the only officially released live album by American rock band Faith No More. It was recorded at the Brixton Academy, London, on April 28, 1990, during the tour supporting their third studio album, The [Real Thing (Faith No More album)|The Real Thing]. The album takes its title from a line from an English football chant, which was sung by the crowd at the show.
It was released as a live video album on September 11, 1990, and as an audio only version, under the name of Live at the Brixton Academy, in the UK, 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 version 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 Black Sabbath song "War Pigs" 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 listing
''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 was unaware of.Personnel
Faith no More- Mike Patton – vocals
- Jim Martin – guitar
- Billy Gould – bass
- Roddy Bottum – keyboards
- Mike Bordin – drums
- Matt Wallace – mixing, producer on "The Grade" and "The Cowboy Song"
- Jessica Barford – producer
- John Booth – director
- Will Shapland – engineer