1. Fat Mike was the bassist and lead vocalist for the punk rock band NOFX and the cofounder and bassist of the punk rock supergroup cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.
17 Facts About Fat Mike
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Fat Mike has appeared as a guest-vocalist on a number of other bands' tracks including "Peter Brady" on Screeching Weasel's 1993 album, Anthem for a New Tomorrow.
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Fat Mike appears as a guest vocalist on the Dropkick Murphys single "Going Out In Style".
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Fat Mike has made several appearances as Cokie the Clown, but one of his most memorable was at Emo's, a popular nightclub in Austin on March 20,2010, at the South by Southwest festival.
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Fat Mike recounted several graphic and disturbing stories about his life, and played several songs both previously released and unreleased.
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Fat Mike tricked several members of the audience into drinking tequila, before showing them a video of himself filling a partially full bottle of tequila to the top with urine to shocked reactions.
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The stunt was later revealed as a joke on NOFX's website, which showed Fat Mike switching out the urine bottle for an untainted one before making audience members drink it.
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In 2019, Fat Mike released a solo album, in the character of Cokie the Clown, titled You're Welcome.
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Fat Mike had never been very active in politics before then, admitting that he never even voted until 2000.
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Fat Mike hoped to go beyond just protest and actually educate kids about why they should vote against Bush.
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In October 2009, Mike appeared in the documentary The Other F Word, an analysis of punk rock fatherhood.
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Fat Mike formerly owned a gastropub-style restaurant in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City called Thistle Hill Tavern.
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Fat Mike has been into BDSM for years: he has had a dungeon in his house.
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Fat Mike has numerous tattoos, including one on his left arm that features a golfing dominatrix and her bound caddy.
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Fat Mike announced his engagement to adult film actress Soma Snakeoil on January 28,2014.
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Fat Mike has been vocal about assisting with his terminally ill mother's death, describing the episode in a song called "La Pieta" which is featured in NOFX's audiobook version of The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories.
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On November 5,2014, at a NOFX show in Sydney, Australia, Fat Mike had complained about a neck injury and had asked the audience not to throw objects at him and grab him while on stage as it caused him pain.