Fat Out Fest is our flagship event that we have produced sporadically since 2011, starting as a two day DIY festival with bands performing back to back between the Islington Mill event & gallery spaces. Since 2020 the festival has been an annual event taking over space across Salford, with our spiritual home still being within the walls of Islignton Mill. 

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Fat Out Fest is now a collaborative celebration of music and visual arts. Since the 2014 edition, inspired by the programming model of Sounds from the Other City, we have invited chosen curators to help us produce our programme. Musicians, visual artists, record labels, festivals, promoters and like minded humans have all contiributed to our ever evolving festival that celebrates the underground and platforms alternative and queer music and visual art.

Our previous programme partners are; Videojam, Gizeh Records, Tombed Visions, Opal Tapes, Baba Yaga’s Hut, Basilica Hudson, Le Guess Who?, Cheryl, The Quietus, Lovers & Lollypops, Supersonic Festival, Sweet Sticky, The Wire, Body Horror, Bollox, Box Records, Brave Exhibitions Festival, Counterflows, Creatures Of Catharsis, Gross Indecency, Upset The Rhythm, Eat Me, Creatures Of Catharsis, Frixxxion, Off With Their Heads, Seren Marimba, Sexquisite, Erased Tapes, Alphaville, Grove, IKLECTIK, Fatty Acid, Hybrid Futures, The Fat Zine & Zakia Sewell.