Dance music can be quite conservative, Liam continues. Hes at liberty to capitulate if he likes, says Saoudi, who uses the word in Fat White Family song Feet. The band, fronted by Southampton-born[1] and Cookstown-raised Lias Kaci Saoudi,[2] formed in 2011. Lias Kaci Saoudi from Fat White Family performs at We Love Green Festival Day 02 on June 5, 2016 in Paris, France. But it also serves practically as an incredibly useful guide to what you might read next. I reckon we should have enough for an EP . Eventually, though, they started to build up a substantial catalogue, so we thought we should start acting in a way thats more like someone who actually wants to do something, Liam jokes. 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. 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. 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. I tried Paris for a while. To find out more, click here. They were musical geniuses. (LogOut/ Im a musician for Christs sake! Theres not a mad rush on, which is kind of nice. The Absolute Mixture: Shit Art Positive by Matthew Bown. 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. Do the gig, get in the van, go to the studio, do the album there was never any time for any kind of perspective. 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. 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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. Words by Lias Saoudi. Depending on what kind of guests you have round for tea or whatever, its the ultimate coffee-table placement the ultimate conversation-starter. Abject hopeless nihilism. It was quite painful for Saul to read it all back, says Stripe. I dont think Ive read anybody who manages to cut that open and dissect it so well. Lias Saoudi: Exactly. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Once you snag him, though, it's tough to get the Fat White . 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. Squat rock degenerate? It should be dirtier, it should be harsher., It is hard to imagine how it could be. PKM: Of course you will. The two years that its taken to pen Ten Thousand Apologies with Adelle Stripe I now refer to as the great silence. [6] Pledgers were given the self-released EP Crippled B-Sides and Inconsequential Rarities. All that stuffthats got obvious implications for how you actually perceive the world politically. I have a voice. This is the definitive account of Fat White Family's disgraceful and . One of the two, Fat White Familys Lias Saoudi: Lockdown was like rehab, Elvis Costellos announcement that he would no longer perform his song Olivers Army, 10% off with this Book Depository student discount, 15% off everything with this Red Letter Days discount code, 20 extra entries with this Omaze promo code, 5% off the New York Explorer Pass - AttractionTickets.com discount code, Compare broadband packages side by side to find the best deal for you, Compare cheap broadband deals from providers with fastest speed in your area, All you need to know about fibre broadband, Best Apple iPhone Deals in the UK April 2023, Compare iPhone contract deals and get the best offer this April, Compare the best mobile phone deals from the top networks and brands. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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. And he is appalled by what he describes as the establishment of a state of self-surveillance. I hope people refuse that, completely. Id go as far as saying its tantamount to blaming the slave for his chains. 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. YMMV on the purpose of art, but Lias seems clear in his personal standards. It begins in the medieval period, but largely focuses on the 20th century and disgust theory. Family: Opening Hours: Monday - Wednesday: 1630 - 0000 Thur: 1630 - 0100 Friday: 1200 - 0100 Born to a British mother and Algerian father, he grew up in the Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Northern Ireland, before moving to London . 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. By now, momentum was ramping up exponentially. All that competitive kind of thing, everybody trampling to get this and thatits all gone, which feels like a bit of a relief. It is a bruising, exhilarating read, which captures the nihilistic energy of this strange and brilliant band. I gave up on collecting records around 13 years ago. And a birthday shout-out (in cartoon form) to . Its like if not now, when? 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. We would smoke petrol bar hash, fondle each other and watch Elvis movies; a phenomenon for which she had a seemingly bottomless regard. I was kind of like, almost angry and bitter at it when it first kicked off, in a way. 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. Like, always siding with the IRA. 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. It seems undignified somehow. 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. Theres other emotions I want to explore. Its a strange time for that to suddenly be a prospect again, like things werent bad enough. Also, its that thing where youre not part of the city. Then Id have just one record. It gets bandied around a lot, but that is next level Orwellian hideousness there. 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. [4], On 10 March 2014, Fat White Family issued their first single, "Touch the Leather", on Hate Hate Hate Records. Its hard not to get channelled into the same sort of cul-de-sacs youve been down loads of times before. Join us. [Heroin] was never the one for me. So what begins as a kind of formulaic rereading ends up becoming quite shocking, exposing borderline damning bits of self-exhibition and self-laceration. 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. It was released in 2014 in the U.S. on Fat Possum Records. 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I took to rendering my own image in charcoal, gouache and oil paint posturing like Egon Schiele whom I severely admired. 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. PKM: Absolutely. Change). Im sorry. Loyal to the core! 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 cant stop listening to it. I bought my first guitar the next day. 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. Since forming in 2011, Fat White Family have released three acclaimed albums of insalubrious post-punk and are known for their provocative live performances. We (Fat White Family) were planning on starting tracking stuff this month. For news and discussion about South-Londons finest. It's not even a clever bit of wordplay. 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. We did a few demos earlier on in the year. Lias Saoudi performing with Fat White Family performs at South Facing festival, London, in August last year. Hes just finished his solo album, which we sort of collaborated on. The world wide web became quite popular around the same time. To have such intricate writing these days, in an online essay, is so rare, because people get to the point so quickly and cut things down so sparsely, and the kind of writing I like to read best is pretty much the style you have. PKM: People are still in panic mode. Its a divorce. Itll be a heavy day., Decius are a supergroup made up of Paranoid London and Warmduscher members with Lias Saoudi as frontman. 00:00. 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. Just go down to New Malden and howl some falsetto over a beat for a few hours. We were both virgins, both really timid; it took us quite a long time before we explored each others bodies in full. It was sort of like rehab, says Saoudi. Musician Lias Saoudi discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Its an oxymoron. Author Olivia Laing met me at the London Library & helped me collect my thoughts on this & a number of other subjects. 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. Then its Guantanamo-style flagellations [doing the video]. The process of writing forced Saoudi to confront many of the conflicts and resentments he and his bandmates had avoided for years. The racial hatred I encountered in the backwaters wasnt pathological, it was that of the animal suddenly forced into sharing its cage with some new and terrifying creature. [5], In early 2014, the band launched a PledgeMusic campaign to fund their show at the South by Southwest festival, with a subsequent US tour. It reminds me of Mark E Smiths freewheeling, deranged memoir, Renegade. The band released Fat Whites/Taman Shud, a split EP with Taman Shud, on 11 December 2013 on Trashmouth. Heroin just f***s everything up. Harmer pitched a tent in the graveyard at the end of the road. Last time I saw him it was complete shithouse, he has a rep for shithouse live gigs which hes carefully cultivated for about 30 years. Retrieved 7 May 2021. I grew quite lazy. PKM: He gets good lyrics out of that. Its as if the lyrics have been generated by a Guardian designed algorithm, every red button issue of the day systematically addressed in the most predictable way imaginable. Given Saoudis history of provocation with Fat White Family, it might be wondered whether hes purposely looking to cause trouble by dressing as a geisha. 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. I think Saul is back on Friday to London. But you dont have to be angry. My girlfriends family lived on one of those Prod estates with the murals, union jacks and red, white and blue curbs. Plus theres Lias Saoudi (of Fat White Family) sharing his cultural highlights in On my radar. 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. Its incredibly painful, a lot of it, but theres an ecstasy to it, in that its pure catharsis. 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. Well kill it before it grows!, Decius' debut album Decius Vol I is released on May 13 via Decius Trax. The site covers music, art, culture, fashion, poetry and movies from the 60s through today. Lias Saoudi: I read aboutthere was some stuff in this country about there being like a tracing app, stuff like that, and people having to have like the right verification on their phone before they can go to a festival. Bang to rights. All the different places you come from, how has that affected the music you write as a band? 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. 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