I feel less jaded, maybe, than some of my peers. The fact that its set in Sheffield somehow really adds to the pain. Six things you love which should be better known. We would smoke petrol bar hash, fondle each other and watch Elvis movies; a phenomenon for which she had a seemingly bottomless regard. 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 seems undignified somehow. Sarah Davachi plays incredibly sparse ambient stuff, all layered drones with electronic and acoustic elements, but really minimalist, subtle. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Bang to rights, The book is not always kind to Saoudis bandmates, however. Lias Saoudi: I'm going back up to Sheffield for a week before Christmas to finish The Moonlandingz LP with Adrian and Dean. I want to morph into a writer at some point, like at age 40. Hes a historical figure that time is about to extinguish, reflecting back on all of that musical history. 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. Nobody was the focal point, everybody was the frontperson. All that stuffthats got obvious implications for how you actually perceive the world politically. 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. Im saying: this is what I believe in. Theirs is the sound of an inverse solidarity, one that revels in the sanctimonious condemnation of people not quite up to speed whilst offering up no valid counter strategy. LOUD AND QUIET 2023. I think thats something Id like to move away from: monotone rage and anger. In exciting news for fans, it has been announced that a new book about Fat White Family is on the way. 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. Theres not a mad rush on, which is kind of nice. The kids in Cookstown, Northern Ireland, had few pastimes outside of . We were homaging the kind of place where house music came from, gay, Black clubs in Chicago and New York, basically. Their grudges, not my grudges. Now that he lives far, far away, in distant France, where, rumour has it, hes busy raising a child, who am I supposed to turn to? DiS: What are your plans for Christmas and the New Year? As soon as we got some live gigs we started getting it together a bit more, says Quinn. 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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. Follow us. I havent learned how to do that during lockdown. The same dozen ideas or so present themselves endlessly, or I submit and just hand over the reins to Spotify. I did dabble a bit on the old Countdown, Saoudi laughs. 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. You get a little place in the country, and a really big garden, and a lot of dogs, and you can do pretty well. 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 book pulls no punches. 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. It was a real trip. Chrissy Blake hosted my interview with Peter Blake. I ask him for his opinion on the current political class. Were the classic toxic men that everybody keeps talking about. 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. 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. It's not even a clever bit of wordplay. [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. Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure. ", Saoudi continued, "The group claim that vulnerability is their armour, where exactly is all of this vulnerability? Communication was always a problem for Fat White Family. Macho Music by Peter Gordon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbeJKaAKLos, 4. That was the main sentiment running through it. But it also serves practically as an incredibly useful guide to what you might read next. 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. Like Lias, the Mays know the stresses of brotherhood in music. 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Or did I think I was laying things away for a rainy day? A feast of snakes by Harry Crews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Feast_of_Snakes, 6. We (Fat White Family) were planning on starting tracking stuff this month. Hes never on his way to the party, hes always like, Do you know what? I can count the times Ive gone to pick up heroin on the street, like, on two hands.. I mean, where would you draw the line? I told them I thought Sash! People listen to me. 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. It was the first time Id been truly happy creatively since I was a teenager., Or at least thats one part of the story. What do you think concerts will be like when people are allowed to gather in larger groups? 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 . 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 . I dont understand where the line is. We were embroiled in this, not satanic ritual, but adjacent, and a kind of alcoholic abyss, he says. ", "In a way Im grateful to the band IDLES," Saoudi continued. But how will COVID-19 effect gigs? 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 . The NYC Downlow is outrageous, anyone would kill to play there, and this is when Decius was a reall small thing that not many people knew about, he continues. ", 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. ", Get the Best Fit take on the week in music direct to your inbox every Friday, Read Lias Saoudi's full post about IDLES on. Lias Saoudi: Most of the new record, some of the old record, and then whatever else we might come up with in between times. Fat White Family's Lias Saoudi says Idles 'represent everything that is wrong with contemporary cultural politics.' Idles Are Feuding With UK Band Fat White Family About Social Issues Music You dont want to be in the middle of the countryside with just a dog, do you? The black pill is what I subscribe to at this point. So what happened? I dont really belong anywhere, you know? Even for somebody like meeven for a hardcore cynic, it was difficult not to feel invigorated by that. When youve got a new project, theres that sweet spot at the beginning when everythings just for your own amusement. Seeing your friends after months, the hangovers just end up blaring into each other. 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. B orn in Southampton to an Algerian father and a Yorkshire coalminer mother, Lias Saoudi grew up in Scotland and Northern Ireland before studying at London's Slade School of Fine Art. And making a music video is like hanging them up on a meat hook in the public square, you dont want anything to do with that ever again. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. 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 . They were both obsessed with Bob Dylan, whose nasal whine I was completely adverse to. 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. This is a band that purports to be about unity and zero tolerance of prejudice of any kind, yet feels it necessary to pour scorn on anyone that comes from a small town that hasnt quite managed to adopt the same middle class metropolitan point of view they call their own. ", Talbot also revealed that those comments did make him angry, "I do hold on to those grudges. I reckon we should have enough for an EP . Support tQ's work by becoming a subscriber and enjoy the benefits of bonus essays, podcasts and exclusively-commissioned new music. I went to this gig last October. We definitely justified our bookings once we played. Yet the band still tried to keep an emphasis on things remaining hassle free. He was waiting for the man., What did the band make of the book? The band were surprised, they say, when some people they showed it to were concerned about their choice of imagery. This is the last picture I took before the underwear came off. I think doing this was really helpful and cathartic, says Saoudi. You need all of your focus for that. Everywhere I looked. Once you snag him, though, it's tough to get the Fat White . Mon 20th Sep 2021 14.45 BST. 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. I escaped and stood and watched it from the perimeter. Thats more like it. What are you going to do? Last of the old school rock and roll frontmen, former Blur devotee, This was long, long, long before the preposterousness of the whole thing. 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 . A dependency on streaming poured into the gaping hole left behind. 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 act ended up touring together, as well as working with Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono, Philip Oakey, Randy Jones and Slow Club frontwoman Rebecca Taylor, resulting in the 2017 release of their debut album, Interplanetary Class Classics. Given the complete absence of any kind of social life I was incredibly studious and this proved easy to accomplish. 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