Fat and Frantic

In July 2011, Fat and Frantic re-formed some 26 years after the first time around to play some live gigs (mainly) in the South of England.

The 1994 album, Precious Lord (a collection of unaccompanied worship songs), was a tribute to close friend Steve Fairnie who wrote the title track.

[5] Since circa 1986/7, members of the band and others have formed a loose, expansive collective, independent of Fat and Frantic, who play unrehearsed, sometimes shambolic rock and roll covers under the title 'Rev Softly and the Residential Areas'.

The band's name refers to a sign in the car park beneath the long-since demolished ABC Bowl in North Harrow, Middlesex: 'When leaving at night, please rev softly – this is a residential area'.

All of the original band members are now married with children,[6] and have entered into various different professions: Jon Soper is now a Clergyman in the Church of England in the Diocese of Exeter.

[10] Jim Harris is an art historian specialising in sculpture of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, based at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford where he is a Teaching Curator.

[3] These albums included, Waxing a Hottie, Aggressive Sunbathing, Live at The Wonky Donkey, Bar and Grill, Quirk, FAF Sing Very Best of Wendy Craig and Precious Lord.