Fat Mike

Fat Mike (real name Michael Burkett) is the vocalist and bass player of the popular punk rock band NOFX, as well as bass player for Me First & the Gimme Gimmes

Fat Mike (real name Michael Burkett) is the vocalist and bass player of the popular punk rock band NOFX, as well as bass player for Me First & the Gimme Gimmes. Before starting NOFX in 1983 with Erik Sandin and Eric Melvin, he used to play in False Alarm.

The name Fat Mike is a misnomer, as he isn't very obese. This confusion arose when the until-then quite thin Mike went away to college (San Francisco State University), and returned having gained a few pounds. The nickname stuck, even working its way into the name of his label, cleverly named Fat Wreck Chords (), one of the largest punk-affiliated record labels in the United States, mainly run by Fat Mike and his wife Erin.