Support tQ's work by becoming a subscriber and enjoy the benefits of bonus essays, podcasts and exclusively-commissioned new music. People talk about a blue pill and a red pill, he says. Fat White Family @ Bowery Ballroom 10/18/2014 (photo via @alexandra_rossi). Its a divorce. Hes not proud of it but at the same time, you know, it was an incredibly bleak period for him. When the pandemic ended more or less all live music for the duration a few months into the following year Fat White Familys 2020 touring schedule was wiped out in an instant Decius informality meant they weathered the storm quite easily. Johnny Vaughan and Denise Van Outen, they was a pair. We were both virgins, both really timid; it took us quite a long time before we explored each others bodies in full. All good songs have this bit where you cant really half-sing it, youve either got to chuck your lot in or not bother at all. Lias choice of clothing in U Instead Of Thought might cross one boundary too many for some, however. In choosing to attack two groups at once I believed I was demonstrating a supreme confidence: a joyously lurid, deeply pathetic re-assertion of my own groups hegemony over the scene. Words by Lias Saoudi. I dont feel like I learn anything about Joe Talbot by listening to Joe Talbot. Family: Opening Hours: Monday - Wednesday: 1630 - 0000 Thur: 1630 - 0100 Friday: 1200 - 0100 Hes never on his way to the party, hes always like, Do you know what? A fantasy that Id spend ten years toying with or trying to kill, that I finally submitted myself to fully only recently, was born in me. Everyone was naked, fucking each other on a cocktail of drugs and it never stopped. Address: The Social 5 Little Portland St London W1W 7JD. It is a bruising, exhilarating read, which captures the nihilistic energy of this strange and brilliant band. There are a few things cooking. Plans for a fourth album were temporarily ground to a halt with the advent of the pandemic, and the band were forcibly scattered to the winds with the cessation of travel between countries. Photo courtesy of Lias Saoudi. Lead singer Lias Saoudi, already half naked and sweating like Usain Bolt at the finish line, jittered to the front of the stage like a character in a Chris Cunningham music video and the band belted in unison, "AH AH AHHHH AHHH AHHHHHHH!" . Lias Saoudi celebrates his birthday with a Fat White Family sing-song down the Easycome teaming up with fellow Fat Whites, Saul Adamczewski and Alex White on. Chrissy Blake hosted my interview with Peter Blake. Mon 20th Sep 2021 14.45 BST. Communication was always a problem for Fat White Family. By now, momentum was ramping up exponentially. I bought my first guitar the next day. The Absolute Mixture: Shit Art Positive by Matthew Bown. Theres a strange sympathy: youre dealing with an alien, and youre part-alien, and everythings inconclusive. I had never been a words man really but in that moment I was changed forever. [6] Pledgers were given the self-released EP Crippled B-Sides and Inconsequential Rarities. Keep a lid on it till somebody finds a vaccine? It did not go quite as planned. [12], On 9 January 2019, Fat White Family announced that their third album, Serfs Up!,[13] would be released on 19 April 2019 on Domino Records. Fat White Family vocalist Lias Saoudi has shared a new essay clarifying his view on IDLES after Joe Talbot spoke about their beef in a recent interview. And a birthday shout-out (in cartoon form) to . Humanitarian man of letters? I certainly wouldnt vote for him., Saoudi performing with Fat White Family in 2019. Lias Kaci Saoudi from Fat White Family performs at We Love Green Festival Day 02 on June 5, 2016 in Paris, France. This is a compendium thats the worlds first comprehensive book-length study of the scatological in art. Its an oxymoron. I just thought it was amazing. Id go out and buy one. To many in 21 st century Britain, the days of overtly political music are over, but not for Lias and his co-songwriter Saul Adamczewski, who is an admirer of 1990s post-punk outfit The Make-Up for . During the first UK lockdown, Lias began contributing a series of unflinching autobiographical pieces entitledLife Beyond the Neutral Zoneto the online cultural hub, The Social Gathering. In this month's Low Culture subscriber podcast Luke Turner is joined by Lias Saoudi of Fat White Family, co-author with Adelle Stripe, of Ten Thousand Apologies, the brilliant and now best-selling account of the band's slow, troubled rise and. If youve got a bod like Keir Starmer, whos kind of like Tory in red clothing, then the powers that be might swing that way, like they did for Tony Blair. I associate that accent with my mum, so theres an inherent innocence to all the characters that makes it absolutely visceral. Saul was extremely controlling in lots of ways. Fat White Family will be back in NYC this week for CMJ, having been added to the NME showcase at Glasslands on Wednesday (10/22) with Public Access TV, Bo Ningen, Twin Peaks, Happyness, The Wytches, and Girlpool. But I thought Id choose the last album by David Berman, from Silver Jews, released in 2019. Albums became predictably much less relevant. It was like a late-night thing but in the morning, quite sexy and naughty. I remember being asked if l liked the Sash?** by a group of lads at school around that time; I thought they were referring to Encore Une Fois by the French dance outfit Sash!, which had not long since been a huge hit. Like Saul belongs in South London, but its impossible to put down roots here because of the money. Once art school finished though, once the student loan gravy train ground to a halt, I found maintaining any kind of fixed abode problematic. Its the I belong bit, there can be no half-measures. Author Olivia Laing met me at the London Library & helped me collect my thoughts on this & a number of other subjects. It was only ever really going go one way to a certain extent, which was complete anti-authoritarianism. I cant stop listening to it. Lias Saoudi: Yeah, the kind of shit Neil Youngs always singing about. Join us. Its awful when you get a public rinse down; I should have at least qualified my comments last year. Javi Aznarez drew a wonderful cartoon. There are no real rules, he continues. That would be totally impossible. What does the collecting impulse say about us humans? (Seen and called, Connan.) . Wed just hit record, go for as long as we want, says Luke. ", Talbot also revealed that those comments did make him angry, "I do hold on to those grudges. Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure. Given the complete absence of any kind of social life I was incredibly studious and this proved easy to accomplish. Hed never had that much interest in electronic music before, but a couple of my mates who dressed like characters from The Matrix were real techno heads, so I thought Ill give it a go. It ended up being completely transformational. Lias Saoudi: It was really good. One of the people behind the festivals high-concept clubbing area Block9, Gideon Berger, had been one of those early fans of Come To Me Villa, and he booked Decius for a brief live slot at the zones central queer club The NYC Downlow, which was modelled after New Yorks legendary 80s venue Paradise Garage. ", Yesterday (22 September), Saoudi posted an essay on The Social clarifying his opinion on IDLES. Nevertheless, Lias styled it out. The fact that its set in Sheffield somehow really adds to the pain. I didnt want to sit and watch Countdown., Well, thats not quite true. For one thing, the obligatory press quote for the track saw Saoudis pseudonym Meat Divine spinning a yarn about The purity of the connection you had with one of your clients - a Lib Dem MP - who used to make you dress like a geisha whilst peeling a never-ending mound of organic carrots in a Raddisson Hotel suite. Saoudi, however, rejects those accusations. The South London band has been hailed as Sweary, scary and willfully offensive (The Irish Times); a lens through which contemporary life is exposed, investigated and celebrated (Domino Records) andthe sonic equivalent of society coming unhinged (Rolling Stone). I was chuffed! They released the track as a 12 via More About Music, the label of Paranoid Londons manager Mark Potts, without fanfare and without disclosing their personal identities. In 2013 Lias Saoudi, who was then laying low in Berlin after the recording of his band Fat White Family's debut album Champagne Holocaust, went out to Berghain. Or listen to our Sweet 16 live podcast series. The book pulls no punches. Within six months I think well have a very different landscape. He began jotting down memories and ideas, the first time since school hed written anything other than lyrics. The kids in Cookstown, Northern Ireland, had few pastimes outside of . He is wearing a grey woollen rollneck, his hair tightly cropped, his face a little fuller than when I last saw him perform topless, cheeks drawn, lank black hair down to his shoulders. Born to an Algerian father and a British mother, he grew up in Scotland and Northern Ireland before moving to London to study at the Slade School of Fine Art. Lias Saoudi is the co-author of Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure, which is published by White Rabbit. Its arguably the greatest suicide note in musical history listening to the lyrics, the conclusion you draw is inevitable, meaning he must have had that in mind, that he was on the way out. It seems undignified somehow. "It's not even a good pun! They make me powerful. Well kill it before it grows!, Decius' debut album Decius Vol I is released on May 13 via Decius Trax. The notion of somebody setting this task upon themselves and going this deep on poo I find irresistibly heroic, in a way. A Fat White Family concert is a portal; a door leading, not out of our present dimension, but more deeply into it than we would prefer to look. I think doing this was really helpful and cathartic, says Saoudi. FWF frontman revisits his 16-year-old self for our latest Sweet 16 column. "Oh man! But I had to come back after five days because everything just went mad on the lockdown. Guideline Price: 20. But this was just spellbinding, it was such a dense experience. Ladies and Gentlemen, this then is Lias Saoudi. It definitely planted a few seeds. Later, he was speaking with brothers Luke and Liam May, whose label Trashmouth Records had put out early releases by The Fat Whites (and their predecessor The Saudis), about his experience. It was the very definition of first love. Its awful., I just think itd be good to lighten the mood a little bit. Lias Saoudi is the frontman of rock bands Fat White Family and the Moonlandingz. I don't know if this coincident or design, but it's Good Friday and Fat White Family have today released their third album, Serf's Up.It's a record they had to leave London to make, forged in Sheffield where they dieted on ketamine, Yeezus and one Wham b-side. The Independent. A feast of snakes by Harry Crews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Feast_of_Snakes, 6. Debaucherous UK band Fat White Family were in NYC over the weekend, playing Bowery Ballroom on Saturday night (10/18). So yes, one day I genuinely had to stop myself driving up to London and finding him [Lias Saoudi, Fat White Family frontman] because I go through fits and pangs of, like: 'Fuck off, just leave us . *Migrant workers from East Timor whod recently been brought in en masse to work the jobs at the meat packing plants, who the locals considered beneath them. Really, really good positive energy. To find out more, click here. waver.One of the best parts of the book is Lias writing about his upbringing with brother Nathan as mixed-race kids in Huddersfield, Eire, Ulster and . There was a time in my life when they were precious to me. 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That kind of lifestyle is underrated. Fuck all you lot. But then, my mums from the north of England, a working class coal mining family. 1. Its been a long time coming, but you can now buy your pal/lover/offended party a subscription to Loud And Quiet, for any occasion or no occasion at all. He is also the debut guest editor ofAmbit Pop, a new annual issue of the venerable quarterly arts magazine. I though it was one of the most positive things Id seen on the streets of London, ever. I think that the way the protests have broken out is really hopeful. Its incredibly painful, a lot of it, but theres an ecstasy to it, in that its pure catharsis. It was sort of a psychotherapy exercise, except Im not remotely qualified to be doing that.. We would smoke petrol bar hash, fondle each other and watch Elvis movies; a phenomenon for which she had a seemingly bottomless regard. It made me think of London, which was not a place Id ever been but youre almost mourning this place thats not even real to you. If I could get back into that headspace I was in at the Berghain when I was doing the indie band onstage, where its not about anything other than expressing yourself in whatever freakish way it occurs to you in that moment, that would be a nice thing to import. As well as the unparalleled joy of keeping the publication alive, you'll receive benefits including exclusive editorial, podcasts, and specially-commissioned music by some of our favourite artists. What are you supposed to do? So what happened? Im going to go and try Margate for a bit, I think being half Algerian, raised in Northern Ireland and Scotlandtheres some sort of connection there, between the Berber people and the Celtic people. And sometimes thats something I can really dig into and make a use out of, like literally make a song and dance out of it, and sometimes you feel kind of homeless. Lias Saoudi. What was that experience like? From then on, Weve really been punching above our weight in terms of where weve played so far. He cites raucous shows at Fold in Canning Town and a New Years Eve show at the now defunct Tottenham club The Cause, as similarly important. To begin reading his Bakers Dozen, click the image of him below. I had my eyes closed the whole time and I drifted into a kind of trance. Put a blanket ban on a term? In choosing to attack two groups at once . ISBN-13: 978-1474617840. It's a cringe-fest thinking back . Im constantly looking for somewhere to kind of like, make home, but it never really adds up. I think if it was more synthetic and Hollywood, it wouldnt conjure up the same terror, but because the 80s production is a bit shoddy it feels more believable. Their first proper video, U Instead Of Thought, was released last Summer, featuring Lias painted as a geisha, opening and closing a parasol in time with the tracks grubby beats. I think when you start out initially thats kind of a big part of it. It went down really well! insists Quinn, who says the gig in fact ended up being pivotal in inspiring the band to keep stepping things up. Id go as far as saying its tantamount to blaming the slave for his chains. CORRECT. Otherwise everything you write is like just absolute drivel. Sign up with your email address to get news and updates from the Social and The Social Gathering . The Irish News. Looking at it all written down and placing yourself within it, building a narrative out of it it was like, man, that was f***ed up. When I speak to Stripe the following day, she says she often felt like Dr Melfi sitting with Tony Soprano. Were in Brixton, south London, longtime home of Fat White Family, to talk about Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure, a memoir of sorts by Saoudi and the journalist and novelist Adelle Stripe. Lias thinks that Idles' lyrics and politics feel like feel-good corporate sloganeering that turns moral certitude into cultural capital without digging any deeper into material reality or the human condition, which isn't what good art does. All that stuffthats got obvious implications for how you actually perceive the world politically. I ask him for his opinion on the current political class. [Heroin] was never the one for me. I gave up on collecting records around 13 years ago. By Gregg L. Friedman MD, Nirvana were really great - never liked any other 'grunge' bands, only later liked some Mudhoney - though i did own a flannel shirt, but, SAM CUTLER: LIFE WITH THE STONES, THE DEAD & OTHER WONDERFUL REPROBATES, ALL THE RAJ: HOW NORWEGIAN WOOD UNLEASHED THE INDIAN INVASION, THE KNACK AND HOW TO GET IT: AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESCOTT NILES, PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF PKM FOR 2021, PART II, UTOPIA PARKWAY: THE ENDURING MYSTERY OF JOSEPH CORNELL. She was the only person seemingly in the whole vicinity that had interests like my own: she loved music, books and films and had a tinge of goth about her general demeanour. [17] Writing in the Observer, Miranda Sawyer described it as 'the story of a band thats always on the brink: of stardom, of madness, of brilliance, of disgrace.' Squat rock degenerate? Whatever trick Bob had just pulled on me was a trick I had to learn, or at least try to. Or did I think I was laying things away for a rainy day? Just go down to New Malden and howl some falsetto over a beat for a few hours. Please whitelist our site in order to continue to access The Quietus. Fat White Family's Lias Saoudi has teamed up with writer and tQ contributor Adelle Stripe to produce a new book about the band, called Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family And The Miracle Of Failure.. Between them they had the entire back catalogue including all the Bootlegs. But then it also hasnt helped my martyr complex. Lias Saoudi: Its one of those things that just doesnt work. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. #fatwhitefamily, @-webkit-keyframes"dkaXkpbBxI"{ 0%{opacity:0.5;} 50%{opacity:1;} 100%{opacity:0.5;} } @keyframes"dkaXkpbBxI"{ 0%{opacity:0.5;} 50%{opacity:1;} 100%{opacity:0.5;} }, Fat White Family last night at Bowery Ballroom. Id been bullied and battered a bunch of times growing up but no beating contained such archaic mystification as that one. Ultimately, it all comes back to the central philosophy that emerged when they first started messing around after Lias Berghain trip the casting off of outside pressures, an emphasis on release. Saodi added, "When you grow up economically oppressed in a world which offers you ever diminishing prospects, a world where violence and abuse are the norm, sooner or later the hopelessness of it all has a fairly good chance of morphing into hatred: labelling these people scum isnt progressive, its decadent. But if you dont, its all about that early period where youre learning about the kind of communal experience and the way you feed off an energy in a crowd and theres this kind of like cyclone that gets whipped up. You just quietly curse the day you were born until its over, channel that self-despising energy, and then its the end, he says. If you love what we do, you can help tQ to continue bringing you the best in cultural criticism and new music by joining one of our subscription tiers. It was really packed at the front and they came out and started doing Song 2 and the place went fucking mental. Its like if not now, when? He was waiting for the man., What did the band make of the book? Fat White Family's Lias Saoudi, Paranoid London's Quinn Whalley, and Trashmouth Records' Luke and Liam May discuss their sleazy, seedy new project Decius. To a certain extent Ive had things that I want. Once all that was gone, I had no hankering., He holed up at a friends flat in Streatham during the first months of Covid, where he rediscovered his love of reading and writing. Fat White Family are an English rock band, formed in 2011 in Peckham, South London. He looks healthy and together now a far cry from the increasingly emaciated, tortured figure who haunted the stage as the band he formed in 2011 with his brother Nathan and Saul Adamczewski slowly ripped itself apart, poisoned by drugs, alcohol and ego. Still, the vape represents something like progress, for it wasnt long ago that heroin nearly put an end to Fat White Family. Since forming in 2011, Fat White Family have released three acclaimed albums of insalubrious post-punk and are known for their provocative live performances. The kids in Cookstown, Northern Ireland, had few pastimes outside of football, setting things on fire and throwing stones at the Portuguese* on their way home from work in the evening. This was definitely the most fun Ive had making record, and hopefully weve engineered it so its kudos-proof. [14] The album was described as "triumphant" and "transcendent" by Adelle Stripe in The Quietus,[15] and The Irish Times said it feels like a pop album you might slap on as the world is about to end or youve just learned Brexit has been pushed back to 2020.[16], Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure, is a recent biography of Fat White Family co-written by Lias Saoudi and Adelle Stripe.
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