Always on
This project successfully funded on 10th February 2026, you can still support them with a donation.
SCARSDALE FATS FUNDRAISER
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Aim
To fund our debut EP, professionalise the band and most importantly, release music.
Dear all,
The story so far…
Jasper, Ben and I are childhood friends. We bonded quickly through humour, music and many late nights of running round Edinburgh till the sun came up. After we all moved to London, charged with delusion and optimism we started attending open mic nights around Leeds and London. But we were by no means a band.
In 2022, my dad passed away. For his memorial, we wanted to pay tribute to him by forming a band, playing his favourite tracks and some original songs I’d written during his passing that helped ease its heaviness. It was our way of paying tribute to someone who ignited my love for music and our name, Scarsdale Fats, is a living tribute to him and the half-mythic alter ego he adopted throughout his life. Before he passed, he handed us his name, and we’ve been Scarsdale Fats ever since.
It started as something for him, and after picking up our drummer Luke; the prince of Putney, it became something for us too. After cutting our teeth round the London gig circuit we decided at the start of 2025 we all agreed to give this a real shot and the year has gone better than any of us expected. We toured Scotland in March, headlined Glastonbury’s Strummerville stage in June playing to 2000 people. After that, we hosted our first headline show at the Lexington to a sold-out crowd. This was followed by sold out headlines at the Bermondsey Social Club and Windmill.
This all culminated in industry interest, but we lacked proffesional-grade recordings of our songs - that would translate this into funding.
Why we need funds?
It was time to record our debut EP, a four-track mini album we put out onto Spotify that enables us to attract the industry interest we need to become self-sustaining.
We had naively hoped to fund this project ourselves through merchandise sales, live shows and funding from the Joe Strummer Foundation but despite our best efforts we’ve realised just how difficult it was without a label behind us. For unsigned artists, there’s very little income to be made from gigs or festivals. In truth, our gig revenue barely covers the cost of renting our rehearsal space. All of us work side jobs to keep this project going, and every spare bit of money we have is being poured straight into this project.
With the funds we had, we started the recording process funding 8 days of pre-production and 3 days at Bam Bam studios with producer Pete Woodin. However, our funds ran out leaving us with a mountain to climb to finish the process. We’ve outlined below exactly how we intend to spend the money we raise.
The Breakdown
Recording Studio
£2500
Production and Mixing
£2500
Mastering
£1000
Rehearsal Space
£1000
Music Video
£1000
Advertising and Marketing
£1000
Travel Costs
£1000
Roadmap ahead....
The proceeds will give us recordings, cut in a studio, professionally mixed, mastered and produced. It will also give us the budget to market the music and have a music video to accompany the release. It will also give us funding for our rehearsal space and travel costs for the next few months. It will help unlock doors that can take the project to the next level and get us closer to doing this for a living. Most excitingly, it’ll give us songs to release to our friends, family and those kind enough to attend any of our gigs.
Bands are making a comeback, and this year has given us the self-belief that we can exist in that landscape, as paid artists, but we really need your help to realise that dream.
Thanks for reading,
Scarsdale Fats
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made