About
" Fatt Butcher is the moment "
– Instinct Magazine
" Commandingly Camp"
– The Times
Fatt Butcher is an award winning cabaret artist, vocalist, and professional hot mess.
Heralded by critics as an ‘incredible vocal powerhouse’ (West End Best Friend) and ‘the accelerating decline of humanity’ by trolls on twitter, Fat icon, fashion influencer, and delusional character actress, Fatt is the illegitimate love child of Elton John and Pam St. Clement, their work has been described as ‘anarchic campery’ (Reviewsgate), ‘a tender moment of queer celebration’ (lastminutetheatretickets.com), and ‘sturdy drag artist’ (What’s On Stage).
A rising star of the UK cabaret scene: Fatt has performed at some of the UK’s most illustrious and infamous venues and festivals including Latitude, Southbank Centre, the RVT, and behind the bins at the back of the Nightingale Club. Fatt is the 2022 winner of Drag Idol UK, and performs in queer nightlife & cabaret venues across the UK on a weekly basis. They are the creator and host of Fatt Butcher’s Disco Bingo, an online viral performance running for 1 year during lockdown before taking up residency at Birmingham’s Nightingale Club (2021-2022) & Cambridge’s Town & Gown Theatre (2022-2024). Adam is also the host and creator of the critically acclaimed ‘SEND IN THE CLOWNS’ a musical theatre drag review show resident at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, which has toured the UK several times.
Fatt has featured in a number of television and theatrical productions across the UK, they have also written features for Attitude Magazine and The Metro. Recent credits include Midsummer Night’s Dream (Birmingham Rep), Stepping Up (Channel 4), The Voice UK (ITV), A Christmas Carole, Southend Palace Theatre (Trafalgar Entertainment/Tuckshop), Ginny Lemon & Friends (Garrick Theatre), Fister Act (The Turbine Theatre), More More More How You Lycett, How Do You Lycett (National Tour), Joe Lycett’s Big Pride Party (Channel 4), Come Dine With Me: The Professionals (Channel 4, upcoming), and Britain’s Got Talent for about 2 seconds (ITV/Thames TV).
Fatt is the creation of artist, producer and cultural organiser Adam Carver (they/them).
Adam is a artist and composer Birmingham. Their work explores queerness, joy, healing, fatness, spirituality and the body. They describe their work as ‘full-fatt’, expect it to be saturated with music, song, dancefloors, movement, drag, food, pastiche, bold visuals, parody, and occasional profundity. They are interested in what queerness has to offer us away from shame, and to imagine what the world might look like if shame itself had never existed. Adam is particularly interested in community, and trying to figure out how we might collectively move towards something brighter. To do this they play many roles; artist, producer, provocateur, composer, community organiser, curator, drag queen, consultant, creator, vocalist, and sweaty mess.
Adam’s previous work has been commissioned by Fierce Festival, Cambridge Junction, FABRIC, Marlborough Productions, Home Live Art, the B’ham Commonwealth Games, B’ham Hippodrome, Warwick Arts Centre, Without Walls, and supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Jerwood Arts, Arts Council and the CBSO. Adam is currently an associate artist at Warwick Arts Centre and the programmer for Queen’s Heath Pride.
Adam is the founder/Director of Fatt Projects Ltd. a community centred non-profit that uses queer performance as a strategy to advance queer collectivity and create change for LGBTQ+ communities (www.fattprojects.org). Most recently they founded The Full Fatt Sound, a semi-professional queer community choir in Birmingham. Previous projects include creating a pioneering development model supporting the creation of queer positive performance work for children and family audiences in PALAVER; touring interactive public space interventions to get communities dancing with Disco Tea Party, Big Fatt Dance Party & Big Gay Disco BIke; and MOBILISE a year-long project creating accessible, sober queer dance parties for LGBTQ+ communities in Birmingham, culminating in a large-scale participatory protest performance leading the 2022 Birmingham Pride Parade. Prior to this Adam was the producer and programmer of Birmingham’s SHOUT Festival of Queer Arts & Culture.