Cabaret Rat
- Cabaret Rat
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About Cabaret Rat
Solo artist CABARET RAT is from Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK.
Growing up in the NW, close to a seaside resort dedicated to cheap entertainment, stag nights/fights and junk food, he developed a passion for pop culture, tacky
one-night stands, alcohol, alt-rock clubs, punk and comic-books. Combining these cultural / messy moments and ideologies with musical influences derived from New-Wave, Electro, Industrial, Garage Punk, and Pop, he founded Cabaret Rat as a means of writing and performing the type of music he had always wanted to create. Big, brash, and occasionally disturbing, it’s music perfectly suited to modern life.
He has recorded and self-released two albums and one EP to date. ‘INFECTED MILK’ was the first (a title that conveyed the Cabaret Rat theme of the ‘sweet with the sour’). Popular tracks from the album include ‘Surf Monkey’, a trashy homage to songs written whilst drunk, about nothing of any real value, and ‘Let’s Watch Porn’, a true story about a first date that was going oh so well…
Following ‘Infected Milk’, Cabaret Rat went ‘on the road’, playing all over the country. As a one-man band, it was obvious that, along with his stage presence and big sound, the concept of a faux-sociopathic loner, armed with a loud guitar and vicious lyrics, worked.
‘SCARING LITTLE ALBERT’, his second 10-track album soon followed, with tracks including his satirical swipe at the gun-crazy culture of the US, ‘Cattle-Ranch’, and the pseudo-jingoistic CabRat ‘theme’, ‘The Rats Of War’.
Cabaret Rat’s latest release, on his own label CAB, was the 6-track EP ‘WALKING WITH SHARKS’, which includes ‘Slice ‘n’ Dice’, a bile-soaked rant at vanity surgery addicts disguised as catchy pop, and ‘Next To You Forever’, the sound of love contracting ebola.
‘You're not going to hear a lot of records like this’. THE MAG. www.the-mag.me.uk
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