Francis John (Frank) Tovey (September 8, 1956 - April 3, 2002) was an influential British avant-garde electronic musician, an exponent of both New Wave and early industrial music. He was better known as his project Fad Gadget. Tovey studied performance art at Leeds Metropolitan University. He signed as Fad Gadget to Daniel Miller's Mute Records, which was soon home to similar but more commercial synthpop act Depeche Mode. He was the first artist to sign to Mute.