Fat Mike

Fat Mike ( born January 31, 1967 in Boston, whose real name is Michael John Burkett ) is an American musician and producer. He became known as a singer and bassist of the band NOFX.

Before Mike went to college, he was quite thin and frail, after his return from college, however, he had gained a few pounds of weight, so he was nicknamed " Fat Mike". Before he and Erik Sandin and Eric Melvin founded in 1983, the band NOFX, he was a member of the musical group False Alarm. To date, he also plays in the band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. He also can be heard under the pseudonym " Fat McMichael " as a guest musician on the CD 10,000 shots the group Real McKenzies.

In 1991, Fat Mike his own label Fat Wreck Chords, which he ran together with his ex-wife Erin. He is also the organizer of the music projects Rock Against Bush and Punk Voter and editor of music magazine Punk Rock Confidential. He was also in bands such as The Dance Hall Crashers, Mad Caddies, Lagwagon, Lunachicks, inter alia, worked as a producer and owns a recording studio. He is the inventor of the term Nawesome, the ( great, great) to mean the opposite of Awesome. Fat Mike lives in San Francisco, California. From 1993 to 2010 he was married. The couple has a daughter who was born in 2003 Darla.