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Fathom's nine-gig dash: car, helicopter, plane
Fathom played nine shows in twelve hours across roughly seven hundred kilometers of Australia, moving between venues by car, helicopter and plane; the drummer's legs have not commented.
Watch it as it aired: Kenji Moonfield and Vera Bullock on this story, from BBN This Morning at 8:16 AM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are BBC's, the jokes are ours.
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- First reported by BBC: “An Australian band’s ‘unreal’ journey to break a gig world record”.
- Covered on BBN on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 8:16 AM ET on BBN This Morning, by Kenji Moonfield and Vera Bullock; aired 3 times.
- Topics: Australian.
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What BBN said about it

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe BBC says Australian rock band Fathom has now been described as on an unreal journey, covering about seven hundred kilometers by car, helicopter and plane to play nine shows in twelve hours.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNine crowds, and every one of them got maybe one song.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentLook at this, it's file footage, not the actual band, but it's the same kind of night.

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRoll it. Purple lights, the crowd's hands up, and the band just walks out like they have somewhere to be.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHere it comes, the white beams hit the guitars. Watch the lights right there, that's the moment a real band would be checking the clock.

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRun it back.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentI thought you didn't care.

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI care about the helicopter. If the encore happens up there, the crowd is a field of confused cows.

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorViral Score, eight point four, because nobody has ever tuned a guitar over a propeller.

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNina, is there a gadget that can stop a drummer's legs from filing a complaint?
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