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Debaucherous UK band Fat White Family were in NYC over the weekend, playing Bowery Ballroom on Saturday night (10/18). was dog shit; that I was into music with guitars. [4], On 10 March 2014, Fat White Family issued their first single, "Touch the Leather", on Hate Hate Hate Records. First, there's the time difference he lives in the U.K. and, second, there are pranksters like his brother and band mate Nathan, who just might answer the phone pretending to be Lias. PKM: Fat White Family have such diverse backgrounds. Did you go? To a certain extent Ive had things that I want. As tQ reaches the age of 14, John and Luke remember their lives at that age, the trials, tribulations, sounds and minor humiliations that have made them who they are today. Well kill it before it grows!, Decius' debut album Decius Vol I is released on May 13 via Decius Trax. I'm Your Biggest Fan. I think having pals like that around constantly can breed a certain kind of entitlement in you if youre not careful. And Ill be tired of being around drugs and boozing and all that stuff, so I was thinking, if I slowly usher myself into that other realm, maybe Ill make it out alive. 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. After spending the six weeks of lockdown at a close friends house, Fat White Family front man Lias Saoudi is ready for a move. Sign up with your email address to get news and updates from the Social and The Social Gathering . Seeing your friends after months, the hangovers just end up blaring into each other. After a period away from electronic production, they were just recently returning via a casual project with Quinn Whalley of the sleazy acid house duo Paranoid London, mainly as an excuse to socialise and have a drink. It would be an insult to those guys to claim that I was a junkie. Albums became predictably much less relevant. Then we all got Covid. The Grass Arena by John Healy https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/05/biography, 5. The easiest way to gain popularity online of course, is simply to regurgitate what everybody else already believes. Just looked like pure love, man. As a wholly independent publication, we rely entirely on our ad bookings to keep The Quietus going. And she said she disagreed with the material fundamentally. "Fat White Family frontman Lias looking forward to Irish 'homecoming' gigs". The black pill is what I subscribe to at this point. Read the choicest cuts from the Quietus archive: reviews, features and opinion, Come To Me Villa/Gay Futures EP by DECIUS, I Blame The Music: Lias Saoudis Bakers Dozen, Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of February 2021, Decius Detail Debut Album, 'Decius Vol. Continue this thread. How can you tell these people not to get out and protest? Once you snag him, though, it's tough to get the Fat White . It was a club, everyone was super hip, it wasnt my patch. A left in love with its own marginality. It is a bruising, exhilarating read, which captures the nihilistic energy of this strange and brilliant band. Lias Saoudi sits down in the pub, takes a sip of Guinness and immediately starts sucking on a vape. Open a drawer. I went with my brother and I remember him taking me to the front before they went on. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. And it doesnt matter which part of the media spectrum you go to, theyre all trying to crank it up to the max, so they can raise their heads above the parapet, above the din. Theres no limit to how much that kind of technology could be abused. They make me powerful. PKM: The Indian novelist Kamala Markandaya said that in order to write about something, in order to get it done, she had to be infuriated. There are a few things cooking. Its different, now. Rage. FWF frontman revisits his 16-year-old self for our latest Sweet 16 column. YMMV on the purpose of art, but Lias seems clear in his personal standards. But you dont have to be angry. Key West is ineffable. Then Id have just one record. I remember having a vision that I was hanging out with my Algerian grandmother, but she was a little girl, and she was showing me around the mountains in Kabylia. Whod have thought?, Anything with me in it. But the process of writing Ten Thousand Apologies forced Saoudi, whom Stripe describes as a mix of Harold Steptoe, Oscar Wilde and Adrian Mole, to confront many of the conflicts and resentments he and his bandmates had avoided for years. You get a little place in the country, and a really big garden, and a lot of dogs, and you can do pretty well. We cant have you back in the house, Lias told him at the time. Its awful when you get a public rinse down; I should have at least qualified my comments last year. But I had to come back after five days because everything just went mad on the lockdown. Co-written with lucidity and humour by singer Lias Saoudi and acclaimed author Adelle Stripe, Ten Thousand Apologies is that rare thing: a music book that barely features any music, a biography as literary as any novel, and a confessional that does not seek forgiveness. 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 . And he is appalled by what he describes as the establishment of a state of self-surveillance. Sometimes, I think having spent over ten years with the Fat Whites has left me associating music itself with multi-faceted trauma: I blame the music, its the musics fault, if it werent for the music, youd have freed yourself and the rest of the population long ago! It just made all of that other stuff feel utterly tepid. Momentum built, but very gradually at first. Theres other emotions I want to explore. Gift them a month or a full year. Then its Guantanamo-style flagellations [doing the video]. 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. I wouldnt ever listen to Blur now but at the time there was a kind of melancholy about it. So when Lias came in it was somebody who didnt have any kind of history with it or established reference point, so it went to other places you wouldnt expect. The closest model Lias had was Alan Vega, that kind of weird, degraded white boy soul kind of thing, where you think youre a sex beast but youre scared of your own shadow., The unsettling, quivering voice Lias employed worked perfectly with the muscular, sleazy beat that Luke and Liam gave him, and eventually it became Decius debut single Come To Me Villa. But singer Lias Saoudi and his compatriots had no such trouble. Lias Saoudi, lead singer of the English rock band Fat White Family, has been described as a drink and drug-wracked nihilist degenerate, not to mention an enthusiast of onstage nudity, Nazi history, and animal carcasses. We shouldnt go outside. But it turned out he didnt say it because he genuinely cared for the safety of the band, he said it because he had arranged to meet his dealer. In terms of capturing and amplifying the sleazy wrongness of Decius music, at least, the videos are a success. The book pulls no punches. Some music . The multi-ethnic South London-based Fat White Family has been called the 'sonic equivalent of society coming unhinged.' Their raucous onslaught is leavened with humor and social commentary, as seen in the titles of their albums (Champagne Holocaust, Serf's Up) and singles ("I Am Mark E Smith,' 'Whitest Boy On the Beach').Ingrid Jensen spoke with FWF's front man Lias Saoudi for PKM Lias Saoudi. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Lias Saoudi said that being anti-establishment "will always be our politics" but "Serfs Up!" marks a shift in tone away from nihilism: It is "upbeat and melodic," said Saoudi, rather . (LogOut/ Lias Kaci Saoudi from Fat White Family performs at We Love Green Festival Day 02 on June 5, 2016 in Paris, France. Fuck all you lot. You can stream "I Am Mark E Smith," and check out a few more in flagrante (NSFW) instagrams from FWF's Bowery show, below---, 100% naked 75% of the show. Chrissy Blake hosted my interview with Peter Blake. Lias Saoudi: Its difficult to quantify something like that, really, because its just your nature. I decided to devote my guest-edit of theObserversNew Reviewto investigating this question. The two years that its taken to pen Ten Thousand Apologies with Adelle Stripe I now refer to as the great silence. 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!" . But having that long silence and emptiness of lockdown, going over it all and actually talking about things, I think its been pretty helpful., Were the classic toxic men that everybody keeps talking about. Why? So I just did way too much Charlie. With Luke, Liam and Quinn playing behind him in custom-built black boxes, he strode out onto the catwalk stage in a gold suit, doing his best to impress the disgustingly beautiful people absolutely everywhere as he strutted, but when it came time to sing his first note, he instead vomited all over the stage and audience. Alas, I had by the age of 16 become a total loner, with nothing but a deeply entrenched sense of myself as culturally superior to keep me company. Publisher: White Rabbit. PKM: Of course you will. Whatever trick Bob had just pulled on me was a trick I had to learn, or at least try to. Its absurd. Nothing all that personal is ever laid on the table. ISBN-13: 978-1474617840. #fatwhitefamily #, Touch the leather leather @nicolenapolitano_ @lu_read, #fatwhitefamily were tops tonight at the Bowery ballroom, Bazi inanilmaz iyi konserler -> #fatwhitefamily, SETLIST: Fat White Family @ Bowery Ballroom, 10/18/2014Auto NeutronIs It Raining In Your Mouth?I Am Mark E. SmithTouch the LeatherHeaven on EarthWet Hot BeefCream of the YoungWild American PrairieSpecial Ape!Garden of the NumbBomb Disneyland, Indie Basement (1/20): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more, Indie Basement (11/4): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more, Indie Basement: Best Songs & Albums of September 2022, Decius (mems Fat White Family & Warmduscher) prep debut LP, share Look Like A Man, Liam Gallagher announces new solo album, new single dedicated to Noel. WERE WE ALL BRAINWASHED BY THE CIA WITH SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK & ROLL? 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. Im constantly looking for somewhere to kind of like, make home, but it never really adds up. "We've got a little four-piecejust a . Lias Saoudi: Maybe I dont have to, but thats the image, isnt it? Javi Aznarez drew a wonderful cartoon. Why not? The Irish News. Instead, he says he was inspired by his recent viewing of David Cronenburgs M. Butterfly, in which a French diplomat falls in love with a traditional Chinese opera performer who is in fact a male spy in disguise as a woman. 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. Im off.. But when the four of us get together, its like weve got to that point where we realise that any conflict is just not necessary. I was a very violent person. 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. It was quite painful for Saul to read it all back, says Stripe. 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. Abject hopeless nihilism. Johnny Vaughan and Denise Van Outen, they was a pair. You reach a point where your attention span is just battered in. But its got to the point where I feel a bit grossed out by a cigarette. Thats the first surprise. Her mother would bring us 6 bottles of Miller beer and order us a pizza on a Friday night. We (Fat White Family) were planning on starting tracking stuff this month. Last year, Sleaford Mods and Fat White Family voiced their issues about IDLES, with Sleaford Mods' Jason Williamson writing that they were "appropriating, to a certain degree, a working class voice", while Fat White Family's Lias Saoudi described the band as "self neutering middle class boobs". I think doing this was really helpful and cathartic, says Saoudi. Musician Lias Saoudi discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. We did a few demos earlier on in the year. Macbeth followed it in November. Nevertheless, Lias styled it out. The lead singer of Fat White Family, one of the most debauched and exciting bands to emerge in the UK this century, is rarely without a cigarette on stage or in interviews. Plus theres Lias Saoudi (of Fat White Family) sharing his cultural highlights in On my radar. [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. Its really hard to find that place again once its got some kudos, then youre suddenly in this hall of mirrors of anxiety and expectation. I though it was one of the most positive things Id seen on the streets of London, ever. He began jotting down memories and ideas, the first time since school hed written anything other than lyrics. "It was sort of like rehab," says Saoudi. Quinn wasnt present for those initial recordings, but when he heard what theyd made, he tells me over the phone in a separate conversation, it was just like, bloody hell! It was completely different to all the other house music around. Thats a long running project. Macho Music by Peter Gordon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbeJKaAKLos, 4. The same dozen ideas or so present themselves endlessly, or I submit and just hand over the reins to Spotify. 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 Fat White Family vocalist also wrote that the band "represent everything that is wrong with contemporary cultural politics, with a left to whom the future used to belong, in defeat now collapsing into whimsical utopianism. Life Beyond the Neutral Zone - Lias Saoudi 03/04/2020 He would reveille at 7am, drink a strong coffee, take a bath, write until noon, luncheon, read for four hours, practice the flute for half an hour, go for a two hour walk, dine out, then take in a play or a show in town. Or did I think I was laying things away for a rainy day? CORRECT. This is the last picture I took before the underwear came off. Saoudi, the frontman who has masturbated on stage, written a song about Harold Shipman and once smeared himself with his own excrement during a gig (The rest of the tour sold like hot cakes after that), is still as provocative as ever. Were the classic toxic men that everybody keeps talking about. FWF frontman revisits his 16-year-old self for our latest Sweet 16 column. All that carry on, for me, is circumstantial and social. The book, which will be published early next year, tells, a press release says, "the sordid and thrilling story" of the band, from their formation in 2011 up to now. Theyre just transient and it either resonates or it doesnt and the best you can do is completely ignore that hullabaloo. Cabin fever set in long ago, and hes considering going down to Margate to search for a new home base. It was a real trip. PS: theres a playlist of music referred to inGood Pop, Bad Pop you can get a sneak peekhere. 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