Its a strange time for that to suddenly be a prospect again, like things werent bad enough. It was only ever going to be like that. The magic mushrooms Lias was using to calm pre-show anxiety at the time had not arrived as hed planned, so he broke his own code to never take cocaine before a gig. 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. Born to a British mother and Algerian father, he grew up in the Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Northern Ireland, before moving to London . 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. I hate videos that dont have rhythm, some are really elaborate and have a story or whatever, but most of the time I think they detract from the music, says Luke. PKM: That makes sense. 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. Lias Saoudi performing with Fat White Family performs at South Facing festival, London, in August last year. 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. In choosing to attack two groups at once . 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. Its too late to start again now. 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. At that point we had an album recorded, so we just started recording another, says Luke. I had decided some time ago that I was on my way to London at the soonest possible occasion to study art. Once all that was gone, I had no hankering., He holed up at a friends flat in Streatham during the first months of Covid, where he rediscovered his love of reading and writing. I think not. The approval of gay and POC DJs like Mike Servito and Carlos Souffront were particularly validating. I escaped and stood and watched it from the perimeter. Humanitarian man of letters? I think having pals like that around constantly can breed a certain kind of entitlement in you if youre not careful. 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. He had an incredible array of records in his living room that me and his daughter would help ourselves to. PKM: Absolutely. It was like a late-night thing but in the morning, quite sexy and naughty. Since forming in 2011, Fat White Family have released three acclaimed albums of insalubrious post-punk and are known for their provocative live performances. I just thought it was amazing. 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. 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. #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. Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure. Theres an incredible amount of stuff in there: Paul McCarthy, Duchamp, GG Allin, who Im an admirer of. They decided to bring Lias in, whose perspective as an outsider was valuable. Change). [Laughs] That was such a terrible move.Was it Shartic Monkeys?". All your different backgrounds, the influences of your families, what has that brought to the table that nothing else could? A feast of snakes by Harry Crews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Feast_of_Snakes, 6. To begin reading his Bakers Dozen, click the image of him below. All the different places you come from, how has that affected the music you write as a band? [21][22] Lennon co-produced their eponymous debut album, released in February 2018. I was kind of like, almost angry and bitter at it when it first kicked off, in a way. 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. Lias Saoudi is the co-author of Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure, which is published by White Rabbit. Their latest, for Look Like A Man (premiering exclusively with tQ above), finds Lias his features glamourised into the uncanny valley by augmented reality filter, his voice pitch-shifted up looming and gyrating from a platform at The Cause. Its incredibly painful, a lot of it, but theres an ecstasy to it, in that its pure catharsis. I dont feel like I learn anything about Joe Talbot by listening to Joe Talbot. It seems undignified somehow. Lias Saoudi: Most of the new record, some of the old record, and then whatever else we might come up with in between times. The minute lockdown started to get eased in London, the old devils crept back in. That was the main sentiment running through it. You cant really have a bunch of tunes on while youre busy concocting alternative truths and softcore character assassinations. ", 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. You know, theres a Maya Angelou quote where someone was asking hershe disliked Thomas Wolfes book, You Cant Go Home Again. And someone asked her, why dont you like that book? But this was just spellbinding, it was such a dense experience. On the night of the terrorist attack at the Bataclan in Paris in November 2015, when Fat White Family were performing at another venue in the city, we are told that Saul had commanded the rest of the band to stay in the dressing room, informing them, Its the safest place we can be. (LogOut/ I hope people refuse that, completely. Lias Saoudi: Exactly. Lias Saoudi is the frontman of rock bands Fat White Family and the Moonlandingz. We were in London, but we were never really accepted, and it was like a building stew of animosity. 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. 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. 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. But no, its just that I havent been able to see my brethren in arms much lately, Ive spent the pandemic writing about them instead of playing with them. Heroin just f***s everything up. Harmer pitched a tent in the graveyard at the end of the road. People listen to me. Why not? It got dark once heroin started to get involved, says Saoudi. I feel like an unresolved human being. Once art school finished though, once the student loan gravy train ground to a halt, I found maintaining any kind of fixed abode problematic. LOUD AND QUIET 2023. The world wide web became quite popular around the same time. He is also the debut guest editor ofAmbit Pop, a new annual issue of the venerable quarterly arts magazine. 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I decided that on the basis of my intellectual merits and soaring grades I was beyond reprimand of any kind, that should I choose to humiliate myself rigorously using only my confused self image and a jar of sculpting gel I should be free to do so. I wouldnt ever listen to Blur now but at the time there was a kind of melancholy about it. Sarah Davachi at Lglise Saint-Eustache, Paris. I want to morph into a writer at some point, like at age 40. They met up sporadically, about once every month or two. Why? I wont be able to take my shirt off anymore because Ill be all withered. This is the last picture I took before the underwear came off. I remember the single came on and that was the first time I was like I have to go get that., My big brother was obsessed with Britpop so by extension I was also obsessed with Britpop. Photo by Alex White. I can count the times Ive gone to pick up heroin on the street, like, on two hands.. 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. Family: Opening Hours: Monday - Wednesday: 1630 - 0000 Thur: 1630 - 0100 Friday: 1200 - 0100 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. [12], On 9 January 2019, Fat White Family announced that their third album, Serfs Up!,[13] would be released on 19 April 2019 on Domino Records. 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. And he is appalled by what he describes as the establishment of a state of self-surveillance. Its an exquisite little collection of poems. Lias Saoudi: Oh, sort of like auto-fiction vibes? 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. 00:00. Nor does Saoudi, who turns 36 next month but certainly hasnt softened. Theyre all very fragmented, but as it proceeds it starts to descend into darker, more autobiographical sketches. 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. As a wholly independent publication, we rely entirely on our ad bookings to keep The Quietus going. Why am I standing in front of a stage looking at some questionable hero? 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. [17] Writing in the Observer, Miranda Sawyer described it as 'the story of a band thats always on the brink: of stardom, of madness, of brilliance, of disgrace.' But it also serves practically as an incredibly useful guide to what you might read next. But its got to the point where I feel a bit grossed out by a cigarette. Thats the first surprise. Just go down to New Malden and howl some falsetto over a beat for a few hours. Rage. Youre crashing on couches, youre in vans, youre in planes, and with the new social distancing requirements that kind of work is going to be so different. And it really was more sporadic. I did dabble a bit on the old Countdown, Saoudi laughs. Were the classic toxic men that everybody keeps talking about. 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. Really, really good positive energy. I found it therapeutic., In Fat White Family, he continues, There was an element of chaos but it was always extremely tightly controlled and orchestrated. 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. The same dozen ideas or so present themselves endlessly, or I submit and just hand over the reins to Spotify. Albums became predictably much less relevant. PKM: It seems like another way for the government to track you. Fat White Family are an English rock band, formed in 2011 in Peckham, South London. Theres an article called The collectors, which explores different aspects of collecting through interviews with Peter Blake, artist Andy Holden, quilt-maker Loretta Pettway Bennett, digital archivist (& activist) Stephen Ellcock & others. 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. ", 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. There are no real rules, he continues. Youre just, like, excavating your own life, he says. I used to get my pocket money on a Thursday from my mum and then go down to the record shop in Cookstown, Northern Ireland, and buy one or two CDs every week until I had a collection., I was really young, I mustve been ten or something. Im saying: this is what I believe in. Lockdown, basically. And get yourself one too. I liked uppers and socialising and chasing girls around. It was the only thing I used to whinge about; the constant Dylan. Within six months I think well have a very different landscape. I took to rendering my own image in charcoal, gouache and oil paint posturing like Egon Schiele whom I severely admired. Life Beyond The Neutral Zone #8 - Lias Saoudi. Theres every kind of sentiment to be explored. As a wholly independent publication, we rely entirely on our ad bookings to keep The Quietus going. That hasnt been shut off yet. 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. 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. 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. Just looked like pure love, man. What do you think concerts will be like when people are allowed to gather in larger groups? It was Quinns idea to start booking some early live shows, the most pivotal of which was at 2019s Glastonbury Festival. THIS IS WHATS COOL! Then, one evening lying on her bed alone while she was in the bathroom next door getting ready to go out, Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie came over the stereo, which is basically just a poem about the nature of integrity inspired by Guthries Bound For Glory. Making the thing is a never-ending agony, by the time its done youre like see you later. Not a chance. PKM: Technology, having to go through that channel, it sucks the joy and the spontaneity out of stuff so quickly. I think doing this was really helpful and cathartic, says Saoudi. Lias Saoudi, lead singer of the English rock band Fat White Family, has been described as a drink and drug-wracked nihilist degenerate, not to mention an enthusiast of onstage nudity, Nazi history, and animal carcasses. Objects I collected over the course of a lifetime & then left to gather dust in the dark. Lias Saoudi: Its one of those things that just doesnt work. Whos to say what is and isnt personal to someone? Lias Saoudi: Im glad thats the way I am. Ive been reading loads of stuff like that recently. Even for somebody like meeven for a hardcore cynic, it was difficult not to feel invigorated by that. ", In response to Talbot's comments about nearly driving to London to find Saoudi, the Fat White Family added, "If Joe wants to get in his car and drive to London to mete out some form of rough justice on account of my expressing my opinion about his group thats fine with me. All good songs have this bit where you cant really half-sing it, youve either got to chuck your lot in or not bother at all. The kids in Cookstown, Northern Ireland, had few pastimes outside of . ", Talbot also revealed that those comments did make him angry, "I do hold on to those grudges. Still, the vape represents something like progress, for it wasnt long ago that heroin nearly put an end to Fat White Family. Rummage in the pockets of your coat. Lias Saoudi, the band's frontman, has a reputation for shedding clothing at shows and spent most of the Bowery set fully exposed. Follow us. Whod have thought?, Anything with me in it. It was genuinely inclusive. He realised that many of Fat White Familys misgivings with the British indie rock scene that surrounded them during their rise to notoriety in the early 2010s - how tame and redundant of any libidinal energy a lot of that was - could be solved with the kind of spirit he found in the Berlin club. 250 subscribers in the TheFatWhiteFamily community. 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. 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", 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. It reminds me of Mark E Smiths freewheeling, deranged memoir, Renegade. I mean, where would you draw the line? I had seen that film Summer of Sam with Adrien Brody on the telly, who also had a ridiculous nose, and began attempting to recreate his hairstyle. Hes never on his way to the party, hes always like, Do you know what? If you dont like something, dont do it then.. Its an oxymoron. Life doesnt work like that. Were not good at talking about our emotions, says Saoudi. To me, that sounds like absolute hell. ISBN-13: 978-1474617840. 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. PS: theres a playlist of music referred to inGood Pop, Bad Pop you can get a sneak peekhere. 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. Like Saul belongs in South London, but its impossible to put down roots here because of the money. You need all of your focus for that. Share . The Irish News. Key West is ineffable. 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. ^ Campbell, Brian (19 February 2016). Nihilist? All that stuffthats got obvious implications for how you actually perceive the world politically. Musician Lias Saoudi discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. ", "In a way Im grateful to the band IDLES," Saoudi continued. A left in love with its own marginality. 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. He was waiting for the man., What did the band make of the book? 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? 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. 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. Youre not from a middle class background. 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. 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. 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. 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. You can run too far without your own self-mythologizing. PKM: Of course you will. 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. They were musical geniuses. Sometimes, I think having spent over ten years with the Fat Whites has left me associating music itself with multi-faceted trauma: I blame the music, its the musics fault, if it werent for the music, youd have freed yourself and the rest of the population long ago! Lias Saoudi: I think its better if youve got some kind of fire in the belly. We would smoke petrol bar hash, fondle each other and watch Elvis movies; a phenomenon for which she had a seemingly bottomless regard. Lockdown, basically. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Chrissy Blake hosted my interview with Peter Blake. We definitely justified our bookings once we played. Yet the band still tried to keep an emphasis on things remaining hassle free. Hes just finished his solo album, which we sort of collaborated on. To the four winds was scattered my collection. The band released Fat Whites/Taman Shud, a split EP with Taman Shud, on 11 December 2013 on Trashmouth. Or did I think I was laying things away for a rainy day? Yesterday (22 September), Saoudi posted an essay on The Social clarifying his opinion on IDLES. 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. Next was the single "I Am Mark E Smith" (referencing singer Mark E. Smith of the Fall), released 15 December 2014.[7]. Retrieved 19 April 2019. The worlds defining voice in music and pop culture: breaking whats new and whats next since 1952. 7 March 2008. Its awful when you get a public rinse down; I should have at least qualified my comments last year. To find out more, click here. Ultimately, it all comes back to the central philosophy that emerged when they first started messing around after Lias Berghain trip the casting off of outside pressures, an emphasis on release. 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. He began jotting down memories and ideas, the first time since school hed written anything other than lyrics. ", 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? 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. 22/09/2020. I certainly wouldnt vote for him., Saoudi performing with Fat White Family in 2019. 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. All that carry on, for me, is circumstantial and social. 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. What are you going to do? 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. 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. Im constantly looking for somewhere to kind of like, make home, but it never really adds up. Ratfucker by Armand Schaubroek https://trouserpress.com/reviews/armand-schaubroeck-steals/. Im not particularly good at that. 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. 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. We were homaging the kind of place where house music came from, gay, Black clubs in Chicago and New York, basically. 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