Fat Truckers

The Fat Truckers were a British electroclash group from Sheffield, comprising Ben Rymer, Mark Hudson, and Ross Orton. They toured in support of Jarvis Cocker, apparently wielding light sabres on stage and described themselves as writing songs about "cheap motorbikes, import-export business and multiplex cinemas - we're a social comment on modern living" and having a fondness of Henderson's Relish. The band split up in 2004. Orton now works in production with Pulp's Steve Mackey, and has recently worked with M.I.A. Rymer DJs as part of Gucci Soundsystem, and Hudson has his own band, Meat for a Dark Day. The First Fat Truckers Album Is for Sale is the only album by Fat Truckers. It was released on September 15, 2003, through Roadtrain Recordings. Adam Sweeting of The Guardian called it "quite a feat by the Truckers to have made an album so barbarically retro-techno. The drum machine sounds like something they found rusting on a council tip, and whatever they are using for keyboards probably came out of a Christmas cracker". Benjamin Boles of Now called it "a bit silly here and there, but so are the Ramones, so turn it up and pogo around your living room". Uncut said, "Unfortunately, the ideas do eventually run dry". "Teenage Daughter" "Ron Is Back" "Superbike" "I Love Computers" "Favvers Plimsoles" "Anorexic Robot" "I Love U Son" "Roxy's" "Lock 'n' Load" "Fix It" The First Fat Truckers Album Is for Sale (2003) "Superbike" (2001) "Teenage Daughter" (2001) "Anorexic Robot" (2003) Louie Austen featuring Peaches - "Grab My Shaft" (2003) Petridis, Alexis (3 May 2002). "The way we listen now". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 7 March 2009. "Fat Truckers – Fat Truckers | Album". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 30 November 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2012. Sweeting, Adam (9 May 2003). "Fat Truckers: The First Fat Truckers Album Is For Sale". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2026. Boles, Benjamin (9 October 2003). "NOW: FAT TRUCKERS, Oct 9 - 15, 2003". Now. Vol. 23, no. 6. Archived from the original on 29 December 2003. Retrieved 4 June 2026. Duncan Bell. "Fat Truckers" in "Albums". Muzik. No 95. April 2003. p 74. "Fat Truckers". Uncut. 1 April 2003. Archived from the original on 5 March 2021. Retrieved 4 June 2026. Fat Truckers website The Rapture at Reviews on NME.com Lengthy interview and pictures from Sandman (magazine) v t e