We were both virgins, both really timid; it took us quite a long time before we explored each others bodies in full. I was really nervous, he recalls. We cant have you back in the house, Lias told him at the time. Change). Am I a hoarder? We caught up with the band's founder and lead singer, Lias Saoudi, in Liverpool just after a low-key acoustic-type gig to support the new album. A collection of domestic objects rendered in papier-mche in The grid. PKM: Absolutely. That would be totally impossible. Lias Saudi, performing here with Fat White Family at End of the Road Festival in Farnham in 2018, made a solo appearance at the Windwmill in Brixton as the second lockdown looms BURAK CINGI . Im saying: this is what I believe in. I prefer to draw no line., Saoudi has found his stride now, but he pauses briefly to finish his Guinness. Julian House designedGood Pop, Bad Pop& also brought his unique graphic sensibility to bear on this edition of theNew Review. I want to morph into a writer at some point, like at age 40. There was a time in my life when they were precious to me. Ill have a fag if Im out having a proper drink or if Im having a bit of a party, he says. As soon as we got some live gigs we started getting it together a bit more, says Quinn. Theyre just transient and it either resonates or it doesnt and the best you can do is completely ignore that hullabaloo. 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). Born to a British mother and Algerian father, he grew up in the Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Northern Ireland, before moving to London . Life doesnt work like that. I cant stop listening to it. Its real close to the bone about that kind of experience where youre half working-class northern, half Muslim immigrant and the inevitable disconnects things just dont quite approximate, in a way. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. So what begins as a kind of formulaic rereading ends up becoming quite shocking, exposing borderline damning bits of self-exhibition and self-laceration. Lias Saoudi: Most of them are in panic mode. (Seen and called, Connan.) ", Yesterday (22 September), Saoudi posted an essay on The Social clarifying his opinion on IDLES. 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. I'm Your Biggest Fan. Lias Saoudi. We were embroiled in this, not satanic ritual, but adjacent, and a kind of alcoholic abyss, he says. But then, my mums from the north of England, a working class coal mining family. 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 To find out more, click here. You get a little place in the country, and a really big garden, and a lot of dogs, and you can do pretty well. Life Beyond The Neutral Zone #8 - Lias Saoudi. To find out more, click here. So what did he make of Elvis Costellos announcement that he would no longer perform his song Olivers Army because it features the n-word? Retrieved 7 May 2021. Publisher: White Rabbit. The fact that its set in Sheffield somehow really adds to the pain. Are you going to take Caravaggio off the wall because he killed a bloke? Why am I standing in front of a stage looking at some questionable hero? And it really was more sporadic. But its got to the point where I feel a bit grossed out by a cigarette. Thats the first surprise. Its an exquisite little collection of poems. If anybody brought up anybody else like Queen we were like, nah, shithouse, Michael Jackson is where its at., That song had a certain poignancy for me. It wouldve been in my house, we had Michael Jackson records because my dad was into him. Hes just finished his solo album, which we sort of collaborated on. 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. It was traditionally the right who were forever trying to get things banned and cancelled, so there is a creeping sense of political homelessness if youre into avant-gardism in any way, shape or form and free expression for free expressions sake. I was a very violent person. Theres other emotions I want to explore. Words by Lias Saoudi. Born to a British mother and Algerian father, he grew up in the Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Northern Ireland, before moving to London and gaining a Fine Art degree from Slade School of Art. 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. 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. Photo courtesy of Lias Saoudi. Some music . We werent trying to package it in that way, but people picked up on that stuff without it being explained or explicit., Meanwhile, the project now known as Decius (named after the relatively obscure Roman Emperor remembered primarily for his brutality; the group employ a Roman laurel as a visual trademark), was remaining casual. An artist has an ability to draw the line amid the chaos and mess of human experience and thats the end of it, he says, glass back down on the table. Michael Jackson - 'Black Or White'. Making the thing is a never-ending agony, by the time its done youre like see you later. I reckon we should have enough for an EP . [Heroin] was never the one for me. The site covers music, art, culture, fashion, poetry and movies from the 60s through today. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? I want to thank Jane Ferguson & her team at theObserverfor giving me this opportunity & putting everything together so it all makes sense. I wouldnt ever listen to Blur now but at the time there was a kind of melancholy about it. Working together as just the two of us for so long, we do each others heads in, says Liam. PKM: He gets good lyrics out of that. I dont know. Lias Saoudi, lead singer with Fat White Family, performs on the Big Top stage on day one of the Parklife 2016 Festival on June 11, 2016 in. That whole thing about living in a sort of post-truth ageI mean, the amount of information you get from all these angles, constantlyit becomes impossible to make up any kind of a concrete opinion as to what is actually going on. #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. Lead guitarist Saul Adamczewski was previously the frontman of indie pop band the Metros, which also featured Fat White Family's bass player, Joe Pancucci. And a birthday shout-out (in cartoon form) to the one & only David Attenborough. 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. [18] It is nominated for the 2023 Penderyn Music Book Prize. The Independent. I dont understand where the line is. Photo by Alex White. LOUD AND QUIET 2023. Its absurd. Blur were his go-to. ", IDLES' vocalist Joe Talbot talked about those comments in an interview with The Guardian earlier this month, "Im not virtue signalling, Im not hiding behind any sort of surrealist bullshit. If it makes him feel any better, the tundra of abuse I received from both his fanbase and that of the Sleaford Mods after that outburst did rattle me to the core. Her mother would bring us 6 bottles of Miller beer and order us a pizza on a Friday night. Lias Saoudi: Basically, yeah! Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. There are two miracles in this brutally honest account of the rise and spectacular fall of Fat White Family, who despite their chaotic existence remain one of the more interesting British bands this . The approval of gay and POC DJs like Mike Servito and Carlos Souffront were particularly validating. Follow us. So what happened? The one thing that you can be sure of is that they will exploit it to their own nefarious ends as much as they possibly can. [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. I had moved there from the west coast of Scotland after my parents split up several years before, my mum having married an accountant from the area after throwing in the towel with my dad. You cant get a bunch of people in a building together to celebrate music with a lot of alcohol and the rest of it and expect them to follow social distancing. And that might not have happened had not the pandemic thrown such a fright into everyone. By Gregg L. Friedman MD, I really miss the great musical groups of the 1960's. Fat White Familys Lias Saoudi, Paranoid Londons Quinn Whalley, and Trashmouth Records Luke and Liam May discuss their sleazy, seedy new project Decius, In 2013 Lias Saoudi, who was then laying low in Berlin after the recording of his band Fat White Familys debut album Champagne Holocaust, went out to Berghain. Hes at liberty to capitulate if he likes, says Saoudi, who uses the word in Fat White Family song Feet. So that did create a very insidious atmosphere where the worst of everybody was getting propelled and inflamed over the course of years and there was just no get-out clause. Then we all got Covid. ", Before ending his essay, Saoudi wrote, "I've got no interest in beefing with this group of individuals, only what their huge popularity represents where politics infringing on art is concerned. 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. I might as well be looking in the mirror., Before they formed Trashmouth a decade ago, the May brothers had carved out their own successful career in dance music as the duo Medicine 8. Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi. PKM: That makes sense. Lias Saoudi, frontman of Fat White Family, has said he's working on a book about sex therapy.. READ MORE: Fat White Family live in London - long-awaited return of gigs finds the band on . I feel like an unresolved human being. I think having pals like that around constantly can breed a certain kind of entitlement in you if youre not careful. You reach a point where your attention span is just battered in. It was Quinns idea to start booking some early live shows, the most pivotal of which was at 2019s Glastonbury Festival. 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. 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. To the four winds was scattered my collection. It was a real trip. Fat White Family: Midnight Chats Episode 71, How Sheffield saved and then made Fat White Family potent, Fat White Family are so good live they made a woman stop looking at her mobile phone. Theres every kind of sentiment to be explored. Along with author Adelle Stripe, Saoudi wrote Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure, a biography of the band published earlier this year by Orion. Ratfucker by Armand Schaubroek https://trouserpress.com/reviews/armand-schaubroeck-steals/. 1', Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of October 2022, Songs At The End Of The World: An Interview With HMLTD, tQ's Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: March 2023, Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of March 2023, tQ's Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: February 2023, Love Songs And Monster Songs: Jad Fair's Favourite Albums, Their New House: House Of All Interviewed, Personal Anthems: An Interview With Heinali. I think thats something really special. 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. After its release, the partnership took concepts from the album to form a new band called the Moonlandingz. Sarah Davachi plays incredibly sparse ambient stuff, all layered drones with electronic and acoustic elements, but really minimalist, subtle. Im in some sort of musical cul-de-sac at the moment Im either listening to ambient or Bob Dylan. Keep a lid on it till somebody finds a vaccine? 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. 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. I dont think Ive read anybody who manages to cut that open and dissect it so well. FWF frontman revisits his 16-year-old self for our latest Sweet 16 column. 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. PKM: People are still in panic mode. He wrote, "In a state of frenzied arrogance around 18 months ago I took it upon myself to hurl a few digital petrol bombs at some of the countrys most beloved acts from the comfort of my hovel in Streatham. 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. The Absolute Mixture: Shit Art Positive by Matthew Bown. 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. Im constantly looking for somewhere to kind of like, make home, but it never really adds up. Whitest Boy On the Beach Fat White Family: Theyve taken countless bullets in the never-ending battle for free artistic expression, and produced some of the most lyrically fascinating albums of the past decade, to say nothing of the uncanny power displayed in their live performances. Tastes Good With The Money from the Serfs Up album: Fat White Familys website: https://fatwhitefamilymusic.com/, PLEASE KILL ME INTERVIEWS THE FAT WHITE FAMILY. 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