Flat Cat

Flat Cat is an original rock band based out of Atlanta. With blaring power-pop originals and the occasional unexpected cover tune, it's whatever cat style feels good at the moment. Flat Cat started as a side project of Atlanta musician Chuck Brittain (guitarist with "The Cogburns" & "The Cherry Bomb" and formerly of "SSE") as an avenue for his original songs. Since its inception in 2007, the band has mutated to the super talented current line-up with Chuck sharing singing and writing credits with Bucky Motter (Bass), a gender queer performing songwriter and rocker. Bucky is a veteran of the Atlanta music scene with two critically acclaimed CD's and has opened for such artists as BB King, Indigo Girls, and the Manhattan Transfer. Amy "Catfish" Rollinson (from the rollerderby-themed band "Tricksy" and the Joan Jett cover band "The Cherry Bomb") has stepped up her musical chops and now helps front Flat Cat with her amazing scream, crunchy guitar sound, and lyric creativity. Rounding out the talented new line-up is Clay McClure (drummer from "SSE") who has taken the band from the straight forward 4/4 to a new rhythmic high and a new direction. The new lineup wrote, recorded, and released "Artbreak Hotel" in 2011 while continuing to play the occasional Atlanta show (Smith's, Star Bar, Redlight Cafe, Drunken Unicorn, Highland Inn Ballroom) to keep the fans happy - as well as doing a small tour to NYC and through Connecticut. Past festival shows have included sharing the main stage of Birmingham's City Stages with The Doobie Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the Atlanta Pride Festival. 2012 finds the band writing material for a potential new CD. "Black and White" magazine's preview of 2009 City Stages (June 11, 2009) calls Flat Cat "one of the event's most impressive rock bands". "Birmingham Weekly" (June 18. 2009) - "If you are ready to venture into high concept with a low-fi ethic, then Flat Cat's where it's at.........Flat Cat likes to claw out the sort of raucous fun Paul Westerberg used to have.." Flat Cat = Partridge Family ÷ (L7+Gary Numan+Muffs+The Mats) x spawn of Joan Jett