I think its one of those things that to sort of successfully pull it off, you have to be able to pair off with somebody. Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi. 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. 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. "This was long, long, long before the preposterousness of the whole thing. I would go and stay at hers at the weekends. 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. Anybody, regardless of who you are, if you are addicted to heroin and crack, and you are living in a crack house, you are not going to behave in a way that is palatable. Saoudi, on the other hand, tells me that, generally speaking, Saul was kind of like, nah, it should be worse. The world wide web became quite popular around the same time. Her father was a quiet man who had served in the British Army working bomb disposal. Theyre just transient and it either resonates or it doesnt and the best you can do is completely ignore that hullabaloo. Its hard not to get channelled into the same sort of cul-de-sacs youve been down loads of times before. Like Lias, the Mays know the stresses of brotherhood in music. Her mother would bring us 6 bottles of Miller beer and order us a pizza on a Friday night. All the action from Coachella 2023 weekend one in dazzling photos, Solar and Moonbyul on the creation of MAMAMOO+: It was a road we had to achieve at some point, Evil Dead Rise: inside the years scariest horror film, Triviums Matt Heafy talks loving Call Of Duty and Final Fantasy in Playback, Nicholas Hoult: Skins captured that moment Euphoria captures it now. I want to thank Jane Ferguson & her team at theObserverfor giving me this opportunity & putting everything together so it all makes sense. FWF frontman revisits his 16-year-old self for our latest Sweet 16 column. It was released in 2014 in the U.S. on Fat Possum Records. The second surprise is his appearance. Under no circumstances would I ever willfully agree to that. You have to give up on that yourself., 'Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure by Lias Saoudi and Adelle Stripe is out on Thursday 24 February, published by White Rabbit (20), Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. In 2018, Harmer was ordered to leave the house in Sheffield where Fat White Family were recording their third album, Serfs Up. Shirtless, his dark hair tousled after a brisk walk across town, he rolled cigarettes and sipped coffee whilst answering questions with a right good grace. Mon 20th Sep 2021 14.45 BST. Address: The Social 5 Little Portland St London W1W 7JD. Macbeth followed it in November. There is infighting, substance abuse, the unlikely success of 2013 debut album Champagne Holocaust, squats, sackings, an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, songs called Love is the Crack and Goodbye Goebbels, rehab and, ultimately, with the release of Serfs Up in 2019, something like redemption. Lias choice of clothing in U Instead Of Thought might cross one boundary too many for some, however. Its an exquisite little collection of poems. Maybe thats a conventional opinion. Lias Saoudi: If youre a band at our level or above, and youve already got a following, maybe theres some potential in it. I think that one thing with the writing that I realized, was that it was something that I could probably do, but in order to do it requires a completely different kind of discipline where Im not drinking or drugging at all. Lias Kaci Saoudi is on Facebook. 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. PKM: Absolutely. PKM: That makes sense. I think that the way the protests have broken out is really hopeful. 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. After the world being shrunk down to nothing, socially, to see that big explosion of color and life, it was an inspiring experience. #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. To find out more, click here. Then its Guantanamo-style flagellations [doing the video]. Their debut album, Decius Vol. Its not a bad show, you know., Enjoy unlimited access to 70 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 30-day free trial, He pauses. 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. A left in love with its own marginality. PKM: Concerning COVID-19 and live music: So much of that lifestyle is dependent on being in very close contact. Lias Saoudi: I think its better if youve got some kind of fire in the belly. 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. 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. (Seen and called, Connan.) Its not a power that can actually be taken away from somebody. Humanitarian man of letters? Lias Saoudi: Maybe I dont have to, but thats the image, isnt it? I cant stop listening to it. The histories relate quite closely. 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. Even for somebody like meeven for a hardcore cynic, it was difficult not to feel invigorated by that. We were homaging the kind of place where house music came from, gay, Black clubs in Chicago and New York, basically. It employs a similar off-kilter aesthetic, shots of Lias buzzing around manically behind contortionist and circus performer Ephyra Ana as she stands perfectly still with an intense Mona Lisa stare, alternating with snippets of the frontman engaging in some enigmatic, submissive ritual. Everything was all mixed up. Fat White Family @ Bowery Ballroom 10/18/2014 (photo via @alexandra_rossi). We would smoke petrol bar hash, fondle each other and watch Elvis movies; a phenomenon for which she had a seemingly bottomless regard. 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. 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.. Chrissy Blake hosted my interview with Peter Blake. With thanks to Adelle Stripe. Were not good at talking about our emotions, says Saoudi. 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. Johnny Vaughan and Denise Van Outen, they was a pair. I mean, with me and my brother it waswe were just sort of skint, and pissing around, and sort of felt like rejects. PKM: Of course you will. Words by Lias Saoudi. PKM: You were at one of the Black Lives Matter protests in London a few days ago. ", Yesterday (22 September), Saoudi posted an essay on The Social clarifying his opinion on IDLES. We (Fat White Family) were planning on starting tracking stuff this month. Lias Saoudi, Richard Dawson and Sea Power at the latter's . People have this illusion that we live in a liberal democracy, he says, but that ran out of steam quite a while ago and the world we live in is something much more akin to the one I experienced in China 12 years ago, only here people seem faintly more invested in the delusion that its anything other than a controlled society. Sarah Davachi plays incredibly sparse ambient stuff, all layered drones with electronic and acoustic elements, but really minimalist, subtle. In 2011 he . Were the classic toxic men that everybody keeps talking about. Are you going to take Caravaggio off the wall because he killed a bloke? The same dozen ideas or so present themselves endlessly, or I submit and just hand over the reins to Spotify. Photo courtesy of Lias Saoudi. 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. 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. Blur were his go-to. Since forming in 2011, Fat White Family have released three acclaimed albums of insalubrious post-punk and are known for their provocative live performances. Sonically, for me, its kind of like climbing back into the womb. 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. It was sort of like rehab, says Saoudi. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. PKM: It seems like another way for the government to track you. Happy birthday Yayoi See Yayoi's biggest gallery exhibition yet opening May 12th at . Theres an incredible amount of stuff in there: Paul McCarthy, Duchamp, GG Allin, who Im an admirer of. I continued amassing a collection after moving to London at age 18 to study art, even adding a vinyl section to my library once the time was right. Open a drawer. Keep a lid on it till somebody finds a vaccine? DiS: What are your plans for Christmas and the New Year? Even Anish Kapoor makes an appearance. 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. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); https://media.zencast.fm/better-known/219.mp3, Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure, https://literaryreview.co.uk/its-me-eddie, https://joannamoncrieff.com/2016/04/18/limits-to-medicine-re-visiting-ivan-illich/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbeJKaAKLos, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/05/biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Feast_of_Snakes, https://trouserpress.com/reviews/armand-schaubroeck-steals/. 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. I prefer to draw no line., Saoudi has found his stride now, but he pauses briefly to finish his Guinness. PKM: You cant learn that dynamic online. 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 Its a strange time for that to suddenly be a prospect again, like things werent bad enough. I was kind of like, almost angry and bitter at it when it first kicked off, in a way. THE SHOCKING LIVE TELEVISION SUICIDE OF A NEWS ANCHOR! I grew quite lazy. 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. 35. "We've got a little four-piecejust a . "All that carry on, for me, is circumstantial and social. As a wholly independent publication, we rely entirely on our ad bookings to keep The Quietus going. 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 a birthday shout-out (in cartoon form) to the one & only David Attenborough. We cant have you back in the house, Lias told him at the time. 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. Im constantly looking for somewhere to kind of like, make home, but it never really adds up. Really, really good positive energy. Given the complete absence of any kind of social life I was incredibly studious and this proved easy to accomplish. What do you think concerts will be like when people are allowed to gather in larger groups? But its got to the point where I feel a bit grossed out by a cigarette. Thats the first surprise. Sign up with your email address to get news and updates from the Social and The Social Gathering . Every now and then, video of a socially distanced club in Holland or Berlin comes, and its better that theres not such things as clubs anymore than doing that. You need all of your focus for that. Did you go? To the point where I was like, I dont want to do any of that online shit. Just frustrated, angryAnd now its like, well, if its going to be like his for a year, then, just to make ends meet, Ill have to work out a way of doing it online, doing a show, something theatrical, doing in it weird locations. There are no real rules, he continues. Some music . It was the very definition of first love. 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. Hes at liberty to capitulate if he likes, says Saoudi, who uses the word in Fat White Family song Feet. 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. Gallerist Sadie Coles sheds light on the motivations of art collectors in our Q&A. Support tQ's work by becoming a subscriber and enjoy the benefits of bonus essays, podcasts and exclusively-commissioned new music. Guideline Price: 20. Join us. A couple of days ago I recorded this episode of the podcast with the group's brothers, Lias and Nathan Saoudi, who told me . I would spend a half hour each morning recasting those absurd spikes only to be pilloried by the student body and excluded from classes by the staff. A dependency on streaming poured into the gaping hole left behind. It gets bandied around a lot, but that is next level Orwellian hideousness there. Key West is ineffable. Its basically his reading history: he picks 52 books Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Svetlana Alexievichs The Unwomanly Face of War and goes through his personal relationship with each of them. Lias Saoudi Folk Ensemble play live at The Social W1 as part of the first evenings celebrating the launch of the epic FWF biography Ten Thousand Apologies co. PKM: Have you been working on anything with the Fat White Family since quarantine has been lifted? Debaucherous UK band Fat White Family were in NYC over the weekend, playing Bowery Ballroom on Saturday night (10/18). 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? 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. Whos to say what is and isnt personal to someone? 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Lockdown, basically. We were both virgins, both really timid; it took us quite a long time before we explored each others bodies in full. Life Beyond The Neutral Zone #8 - Lias Saoudi. I think thats something Id like to move away from: monotone rage and anger. Theres a poem called The Word, about the way his dad speaks. Its a divorce. Its such a great sermon to spit, its so righteous and damning. Thats a long running project. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. So it really did get kind of monstrous as a result. Author Olivia Laing met me at the London Library & helped me collect my thoughts on this & a number of other subjects. Im sorry. Lias Saoudi: Its difficult to quantify something like that, really, because its just your nature. Each page reveals fresh depravities and triumphs. As they put out more singles in the build-up to their debut album (Decius Vol I, released on May 13 via their own label Decius Trax), the band also started releasing visuals that stepped out from behind the relative anonymity of their early days. For all four of the musicians, it was something they deeply needed. But it also serves practically as an incredibly useful guide to what you might read next. The only thing that could destroy us is even a modicum of success, Lias jokes. Albums became predictably much less relevant. I noticed after I came to London that everybody in the big city starts shagging each other and doing drugs at age 13; no such joy in the soggy, racist backwater I grew up in. I dont know. And she said she disagreed with the material fundamentally. Loyal to the core! To begin reading his Bakers Dozen, click the image of him below. I thought now would be a great time for everybody to rewatch Threads, the Sheffield-based Armageddon, now that the cold war is, well, back in fashion. ^ "How The Metros are making a big noise in Peckham". That would be totally impossible. Or listen to our Sweet 16 live podcast series. Working together as just the two of us for so long, we do each others heads in, says Liam. But singer Lias Saoudi and his compatriots had no such trouble. 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. It was just this completely nightmarish situation.. Objects I collected over the course of a lifetime & then left to gather dust in the dark. Its an oxymoron. Like Saul belongs in South London, but its impossible to put down roots here because of the money. Lias Saoudi: Im glad thats the way I am. It begins in the medieval period, but largely focuses on the 20th century and disgust theory. It was sort of a psychotherapy exercise, except Im not remotely qualified to be doing that.. Nihilist? All that competitive kind of thing, everybody trampling to get this and thatits all gone, which feels like a bit of a relief. [20], In January 2017, Adamczewski formed the band Insecure Men with Lennon (guitar), Ben Romans-Hopcraft (bass), Jack Everett (drums), Jon Catfish de Lorene (keyboards) and Alex White (saxophone). 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 . Why not? Lias Saoudi performing with Fat White Family performs at South Facing festival, London, in August last year. [3], They released their debut album, Champagne Holocaust, in 2013, on UK label Trashmouth Records. ^ Campbell, Brian (19 February 2016). How was the show, apart from being in-the-raw and in-your-face? Musician Lias Saoudi discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Cabin fever set in long ago, and hes considering going down to Margate to search for a new home base. Thats more like it. Its the I belong bit, there can be no half-measures. 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. You can run too far without your own self-mythologizing. I think Saul is back on Friday to London. We were in London, but we were never really accepted, and it was like a building stew of animosity. ISBN-13: 978-1474617840. The Irish News. I certainly wouldnt vote for him., Saoudi performing with Fat White Family in 2019. 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 . [Heroin] was never the one for me. Or did I think I was laying things away for a rainy day? THIS IS WHATS COOL! We recorded in one long take, straight on the record, no edits necessary, says Luke. To me, that sounds like absolute hell. Lias Saoudi: Its difficult to do if youre on your own. The fact that its set in Sheffield somehow really adds to the pain. [6] Pledgers were given the self-released EP Crippled B-Sides and Inconsequential Rarities. To find out more, click here. People talk about a blue pill and a red pill, he says. 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. 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. It was on The Big Breakfast, remember that? Their unsparing lyrics are often an expose of our best and worst qualities as a species, intermingled so closely that good and bad and right and wrong become hopelessly confused. I think having pals like that around constantly can breed a certain kind of entitlement in you if youre not careful. 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. Communication was always a problem for Fat White Family. I tried Paris for a while. 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. 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. Its got to be one of the bravest, boldest records Ive heard in years its the brutal honesty combined with the acerbic wit of the lyricism that does it for me. [8][9] Lias Saoudi described the album as an attempt to really to get at the shittiness lurking in the core of my own soul, and in everybody else's.[10] It was promoted with a single for "Whitest Boy on the Beach",[11] which was later chosen for the closing credits of the 2017 film T2 Trainspotting. Published 24 February 2022 by White Rabbit. It's a cringe-fest thinking back . 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. If you dont like something, dont do it then.. 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 country's most beloved acts from the comfort of my hovel in Streatham. We were embroiled in this, not satanic ritual, but adjacent, and a kind of alcoholic abyss, he says. It got dark once heroin started to get involved, says Saoudi. It was only ever going to be like that. "Fat White Family frontman Lias looking forward to Irish 'homecoming' gigs". I became largely dependent on my comrades to do the archiving and deep diving, especially my songwriting partner Saul Adamczewski, whose inner record nerd only seems to expand with age. 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. 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". The Fat White Family frontman on sonically tripping to Sarah Davachi, rewatching Threads and a heroic history of poo in art. Id go as far as saying its tantamount to blaming the slave for his chains. 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. 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. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Discover Weekly? Hes never on his way to the party, hes always like, Do you know what? 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. Just go down to New Malden and howl some falsetto over a beat for a few hours. Retrieved 19 April 2019. And it really was more sporadic. . After spending the six weeks of lockdown at a close friends house, Fat White Family front man Lias Saoudi is ready for a move. Why? ", 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. My girlfriends family lived on one of those Prod estates with the murals, union jacks and red, white and blue curbs. There are a few things cooking. I noticed after I came to London that everybody in the big city starts shagging each other and doing drugs at age 13; no such joy in the soggy, racist backwater I grew up in. It reminds me of Mark E Smiths freewheeling, deranged memoir, Renegade. 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