All The Fat Children is a band of 3 former students from CHRIST (Deemed to be University). Formed in June 2008, Eben (guitars / lead vocals), Vickram (Bass / backing vocals) and Santosh, their drummer at the time, played their first ever show at the intra-college festival Darpan in 2008. They secured the second place at the competition. Eben was looking around for like-minded musicians to form a rock group. He found Vickram through a mutual friend and managed to convince Vickram to join after treating him to a bit of food and beverage from the Food Court. The original drummer Jerry, had rehearsed with the band sparsely and did not last long, so Eben had to find a drummer to take his place. Eben had gone to another college to watch a band performing. He met Santosh in the urinal during a break. He spoke with Santosh and laid out the vision to him. Not long after, Santosh joined the group, learning all the songs in a short span of time and played their very first show with them.
All the band members were a part of the CHRIST (Deemed to be University) choir and had their foundational training in singing by spending time rehearsing and performing with the choir. They continued to perform in many college competitions, winning many, and a few professional shows between 2008 to 2010. It was through the experiences with the choir and balancing college, as well as external shows, that the band members came to understand the nuances and facets of the music industry. All the band
members learned to become adept at business, marketing, branding, learning everything they could during their time at Christ. Being in a comfortable environment, cloistered in the backdrop of an educational institution, it was a safe space with which to operate. However, this was not without its own trial and tribulations. All the band members also managed to balance their studies (without even one backlog) alongside rehearsing and performing for their shows. In fact, two of the band members took up more responsibilities, such as Eben being the student cultural coordinator and Vickram was selected into the very first batch of the Psychology Honours degree. The band decided to take their first steps outside the college circuit around late 2009, taking this further in late 2010.
Santosh, the first drummer, had graduated 2010, leaving a huge role to be filled. Auditions were held and Sachin Savio Dane (also a Christite) was chosen to take up drummer duties, playing his first show with All The Fat Children at Darpan in 2010. Coincidentally, Eben also met Sachin at a urinal and convinced him to audition. Sachin had learned his craft from John Thomas, founder and drummer of Motherjane. Sachin additionally served as their manager for some time as well. It was from 2010 that All The Fat Children had started taking on more shows outside the college music circuit. These shows helped to earn the band an income to help record and release song material composed over the years from 2008.
Having been Christites for over 3 years, the time had come to graduate and the band played the very last set of college competitions and shows in late 2010, phasing out of competitions (having won over 30+ competitions by this time) and moving into the industry itself through shows that brought in more income. Around early 2011, the band members were also involved (spearheaded by Vineeth Vincent) in creating a Guinness World Record and Limca Book of Record for largest Beatbox ensemble of 1246 beatboxing participants. Later that year, the band was also the opening act for Motherjane and Pentagram at St. John’s Autumn Muse festival.