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After its release, the partnership took concepts from the album to form a new band called the Moonlandingz. Sign up with your email address to get news and updates from the Social and The Social Gathering . Musician Lias Saoudi discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. ", Saoudi continued, "The group claim that vulnerability is their armour, where exactly is all of this vulnerability? 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. Humanitarian man of letters? 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 got dark once heroin started to get involved, says Saoudi. ", "In a way Im grateful to the band IDLES," Saoudi continued. 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. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. You can run too far without your own self-mythologizing. The only thing that could destroy us is even a modicum of success, Lias jokes. The kids in Cookstown, Northern Ireland, had few pastimes outside of . Come To Me Villas initial non-descript launch was back in 2014 (at the beginning of last year it received a more publicized re-release as a full EP), with further one-off releases coming once a year in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Ratfucker by Armand Schaubroek https://trouserpress.com/reviews/armand-schaubroeck-steals/. Lias Saoudi, Richard Dawson and Sea Power at the latter's . Then its Guantanamo-style flagellations [doing the video]. I liked uppers and socialising and chasing girls around. 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Artist Jeremy Deller meets Jonny Banger, founder ofSports Banger: a rave/fashion/food bank/political activism collective whose latest clothing collection bears the label The People Deserve Beauty. Author: Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi. Cabin fever set in long ago, and hes considering going down to Margate to search for a new home base. Lias Saoudi: I think its better if youve got some kind of fire in the belly. 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. 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. The band, fronted by Southampton-born[1] and Cookstown-raised Lias Kaci Saoudi,[2] formed in 2011. That posture is kind of infinite., John Denver Take Me Home, Country Roads, It goes down well if you can hit what I call the leap of faith moment. I went to one the other day and I thought that was the best possible way young people could come back together after something like that. 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. You cant really have a bunch of tunes on while youre busy concocting alternative truths and softcore character assassinations. The Independent. Id go out and buy one. Support tQ's work by becoming a subscriber and enjoy the benefits of bonus essays, podcasts and exclusively-commissioned new music. 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. I told them I thought Sash! Lockdown, basically. Lias Saoudi performing with Fat White Family performs at South Facing festival, London, in August last year. This was followed by the singles "Feet" and "Tastes Good With The Money", the latter featuring spoken lyrics by Baxter Dury, and a video directed by Risn Murphy. I did dabble a bit on the old Countdown, Saoudi laughs. 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. Born to a British mother and Algerian father, he grew up in the Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Northern Ireland, before moving to London . But how will COVID-19 effect gigs? Gift them a month or a full year. That hasnt been shut off yet. 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. Who is he to deny these people a pride in their national identity?" If youve got a bod like Keir Starmer, whos kind of like Tory in red clothing, then the powers that be might swing that way, like they did for Tony Blair. It was a bit heavy, that. Since forming in 2011, Fat White Family have released three acclaimed albums of insalubrious post-punk and are known for their provocative live performances. 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. Lias Saoudi: Basically, yeah! We definitely justified our bookings once we played. Yet the band still tried to keep an emphasis on things remaining hassle free. PKM: Have you been working on anything with the Fat White Family since quarantine has been lifted? Lias Saoudi: Its difficult to quantify something like that, really, because its just your nature. I had my eyes closed the whole time and I drifted into a kind of trance. It seems undignified somehow. 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. Their lead singer talks to Rupert Hawksley about their darkest days, and why Elvis Costello has capitulated to the controlled society, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile, Writing during lockdown, says Saoudi, was the first time Id been truly happy creatively since I was a teenager. Like Saul belongs in South London, but its impossible to put down roots here because of the money. Retrieved 19 April 2019. To find out more, click here. I definitely feel like I dont have a tribe.. 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. PKM: You were at one of the Black Lives Matter protests in London a few days ago. This is a compendium thats the worlds first comprehensive book-length study of the scatological in art. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Drugs, alcohol and ego almost tore Britains most provocative band apart, as a no-holds-barred memoir of the group reveals. Heroin just f***s everything up. Harmer pitched a tent in the graveyard at the end of the road. Making the thing is a never-ending agony, by the time its done youre like see you later. If youve got 50,000 followers, then youve basically got a little TV channel. 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. 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 begins in the medieval period, but largely focuses on the 20th century and disgust theory. I hope people refuse that, completely. Thank you all for your help. I think if it was more synthetic and Hollywood, it wouldnt conjure up the same terror, but because the 80s production is a bit shoddy it feels more believable. 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. Its been a long time coming, but you can now buy your pal/lover/offended party a subscription to Loud And Quiet, for any occasion or no occasion at all. Fat White Family's next single, "Breaking Into Aldi", was released on 16 August 2016. 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. We used to put it on and dance to it and shit. What do you think concerts will be like when people are allowed to gather in larger groups? ", Yesterday (22 September), Saoudi posted an essay on The Social clarifying his opinion on IDLES. Hes never on his way to the party, hes always like, Do you know what? Theres no deeper concept behind them and no deliberate provocation, they insist other than doing just that. I have written a book calledGood Pop, Bad Pop, which is based around the objects I found in the loft of a house I used to live in. Its hard not to get channelled into the same sort of cul-de-sacs youve been down loads of times before. Address: The Social 5 Little Portland St London W1W 7JD. It was released in 2014 in the U.S. on Fat Possum Records. 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. 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. Follow us. Im constantly looking for somewhere to kind of like, make home, but it never really adds up. It was like Elvis, everyone could agree on that up to a point and then suddenly we could no longer agree on Michael. One ready to go now, then another to follow quite quickly afterwards.. I think doing this was really helpful and cathartic, says Saoudi. It was sort of like rehab, says Saoudi. 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. 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. If youre a younger band, just starting outand youre yet to carve out a following for yourselfwhats the point of doing it online if nobodys watching? 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 country's most beloved acts from the comfort of my hovel in Streatham. The sold-out crowd parted like the Red Sea, due to the fact that the band smelled like they'd spent the day swimming in a Staten . Communication was always a problem for Fat White Family. But you dont have to be angry. 35. Everything was all mixed up. I have a voice. But it also serves practically as an incredibly useful guide to what you might read next. As a wholly independent publication, we rely entirely on our ad bookings to keep The Quietus going. Its constantly shifting. Id been bullied and battered a bunch of times growing up but no beating contained such archaic mystification as that one. PKM: People are still in panic mode. ", 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. Anyone willing to sweat nuts and bolts on stage like that, regardless of the underlying message, deserves our respect, and for that I duly salute them. In exciting news for fans, it has been announced that a new book about Fat White Family is on the way. I feel less jaded, maybe, than some of my peers. Debaucherous UK band Fat White Family were in NYC over the weekend, playing Bowery Ballroom on Saturday night (10/18). Lias Saoudi: Yeah, the kind of shit Neil Youngs always singing about. ", Saoudi went on to describe the extent of racial abuse he's received growing up, and called out Talbot, "but who is Joe Talbot to wag his finger and cast judgement on these people? Read the choicest cuts from the Quietus archive: reviews, features and opinion, Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure, Stalker Humanoids: The ERC, Maxine Peake & Lias Saoudi Interviewed, No Sleep 'Til Notting Hill: The Moonlandingz Interviewed, Fat White Family's Lias Saoudi To Publish Biography Of The Band, Peer Review: Joel Gibb Interviews Owen Pallett And Vice Versa, TQ's John Doran To Host Metal Modernism Event In Brighton, Ben Gregory Details Debut Album, Shares New Essay, Monsters Vs. Nazis: Margaret Killjoy Of Feminazgl On Anti-Fascist Black Metal, Virtual Mentors: Arooj Aftab's Favourite Albums, Magical Cuts: Anthony Surgeon Childs Favourite Music, Love Songs And Monster Songs: Jad Fair's Favourite Albums, Stop, Collaborate And Listen: Meg Remy's Favourite Albums, Leather Jacket-Worthy: Lawrence's Favourite Albums. Rummage in the pockets of your coat. A self-professed humanitarian, Lias rejects the nihilist label, but he's got no problem talking drugs, art, politics . Theres a strange sympathy: youre dealing with an alien, and youre part-alien, and everythings inconclusive. (LogOut/ I decided to devote my guest-edit of theObserversNew Reviewto investigating this question. Its arguably the greatest suicide note in musical history listening to the lyrics, the conclusion you draw is inevitable, meaning he must have had that in mind, that he was on the way out. Raina Lampkins-Fielder introduced me to the work of the Gees Bend quilt-makers. I took to rendering my own image in charcoal, gouache and oil paint posturing like Egon Schiele whom I severely admired. FWF frontman revisits his 16-year-old self for our latest Sweet 16 column. Once art school finished though, once the student loan gravy train ground to a halt, I found maintaining any kind of fixed abode problematic. In 2018, Harmer was ordered to leave the house in Sheffield where Fat White Family were recording their third album, Serfs Up. Like Lias, the Mays know the stresses of brotherhood in music. At that point we had an album recorded, so we just started recording another, says Luke. The Guardian. 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!" . Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. 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. I wouldnt ever listen to Blur now but at the time there was a kind of melancholy about it. We were dedicated to that. He looks healthy and together now a far cry from the increasingly emaciated, tortured figure who haunted the stage as the band he formed in 2011 with his brother Nathan and Saul Adamczewski slowly ripped itself apart, poisoned by drugs, alcohol and ego. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Lias Kaci Saoudi is a writer, artist and musician, and the front man of genre-bending iconoclasts Fat White Family. [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. 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