OVERVIEW
Nick Kelly founded The Fat Lady Sings in Dublin in 1986. Operating from London, they quickly began to garner plaudits from critics on both sides of the Irish Sea. From the band's inception, the quality and scope of Kelly's songwriting in particular was consistently admired. Between 1986 and 1989 they released four independent singles: Fear And Favour on Good Vibrations, Be Still on Harbour Sound, and Arclight and Dronning Maud Land on the band's own Fourth Base Records.

The reaction to these four songs, and the enormous fan base that The Fat Lady Sings built up through touring, led to their signing a major record deal with East West/Atlantic Records in 1989, and to Kelly being signed as a songwriter by Island Music.
n 1991, The Fat Lady Sings released their debut album Twist on East West to widespread acclaim. Twist performed well in the British and Irish charts and also provided the band with their first American success when the single Man Scared entered the U.S. Alternative Charts.

In 1993 their second album, Johnson, was released to further praise, and the single Drunkard Logic provided The Fat Lady Sings with their highest ever U.K. Chart placing.

In the same year, the Peace Together project, an initiative towards reconciliation in Northern Ireland through music jointly instigated by former TFLS-member Robert Hamilton and Ali McMordie, released a version of Kelly's Be Still, featuring performances by stars including Peter Gabriel, Sinéad O'Connor, Feargal Sharkey and Nanci Griffith.

In January 1994, following an extensive and successful U.S. tour, Nick Kelly announced that he had decided to split The Fat Lady Sings.

Biography taken from the Nick Kelly website.

1986
- Fat Lady Sings formed.
- Release of 'Fear And Favour' single
1988
- Release of 'Be Still' single
1989
- Release of 'Arclight' single
1990
- Release of 'Dronning Maudland' single
- Release of 'Manscared' single
1991
- Re-release of 'Arclight' single
- Release of 'Twist' single
- Release of 'Deborah' single
- Release of 'Twist' album
1993
- Release of 'Show Of MySelf' single
- Release of 'Drunkard Logic' single
- Release of 'World Exploding Touch' single
- Release of 'Johnson' album
2005
- Release of 'The Fat Lady Singles / Opera Obscura' double-album. As it's name suggests, the first CD gathered together all of the band singles, while 'Opera Obscura' was a collection of B-Sides and rarities.