Were not good at talking about our emotions, says Saoudi. You see whats happening now with mass protests, and its like so, say we all went in a tracing app, and we all had to sign up to it, but then anybody that goes out on a protest is suddenly biologically invalidated from going to a pop concert, or eating in a nice restaurant, or taking a train somewhere. 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. PKM: Technology, having to go through that channel, it sucks the joy and the spontaneity out of stuff so quickly. PKM: Have you been working on anything with the Fat White Family since quarantine has been lifted? Learn how your comment data is processed. We did a few demos earlier on in the year. After the world being shrunk down to nothing, socially, to see that big explosion of color and life, it was an inspiring experience. Discover Weekly? Author Olivia Laing met me at the London Library & helped me collect my thoughts on this & a number of other subjects. It was really nice to just let Decius breathe, says Quinn. It wouldve been in my house, we had Michael Jackson records because my dad was into him. I dont really belong anywhere, you know? Its the I belong bit, there can be no half-measures. It was Quinns idea to start booking some early live shows, the most pivotal of which was at 2019s Glastonbury Festival. Author: Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi. 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. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Why am I standing in front of a stage looking at some questionable hero? 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. 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. "Fat White Family frontman Lias looking forward to Irish 'homecoming' gigs". 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. I dont think Ive read anybody who manages to cut that open and dissect it so well. Seeing your friends after months, the hangovers just end up blaring into each other. FWF frontman revisits his 16-year-old self for our latest Sweet 16 column. The publisher, White Rabbit Books, shared the news on their social media channels, writing: "Announcing Ten Thousand Apologies , Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi.". 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. Heroin just f***s everything up. Harmer pitched a tent in the graveyard at the end of the road. I think that the way the protests have broken out is really hopeful. PKM: Of course you will. Guideline Price: 20. Squat rock degenerate? I was a very violent person. The kids in Cookstown, Northern Ireland, had few pastimes outside of football, setting things on fire and throwing stones at the Portuguese* on their way home from work in the evening. For all four of the musicians, it was something they deeply needed. 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. 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. I escaped and stood and watched it from the perimeter. The notion of somebody setting this task upon themselves and going this deep on poo I find irresistibly heroic, in a way. I hope people refuse that, completely. The same dozen ideas or so present themselves endlessly, or I submit and just hand over the reins to Spotify. 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. In exciting news for fans, it has been announced that a new book about Fat White Family is on the way. But its got to the point where I feel a bit grossed out by a cigarette. Thats the first surprise. 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. Nobody was the focal point, everybody was the frontperson. I went to this gig last October. Gallerist Sadie Coles sheds light on the motivations of art collectors in our Q&A. 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. Join us. It was a real trip. "We've got a little four-piecejust a . 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? 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 Theyre all very fragmented, but as it proceeds it starts to descend into darker, more autobiographical sketches. 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. Continue this thread. Maybe thats a conventional opinion. Mandatory school uniform meant that between the ages of 12 to 18 I wore a great big red hand of Ulster out on my chest everyday. LOUD AND QUIET 2023. Its a strange time for that to suddenly be a prospect again, like things werent bad enough. You just quietly curse the day you were born until its over, channel that self-despising energy, and then its the end, he says. In this month's Low Culture subscriber podcast Luke Turner is joined by Lias Saoudi of Fat White Family, co-author with Adelle Stripe, of Ten Thousand Apologies, the brilliant and now best-selling account of the band's slow, troubled rise and. Ill have a fag if Im out having a proper drink or if Im having a bit of a party, he says. 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. John and Luke celebrate tQ's fourteenth birthday with a selection of their cultural highlights this month. Lias Saoudi: Well, Saul got stranded in SpainWe were all supposed to meet in Algeria, and work on an album there, around where my family live, and collaborate musically with other people from that region. The Irish News. 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. Limits to Medicine by Ivan Illich https://joannamoncrieff.com/2016/04/18/limits-to-medicine-re-visiting-ivan-illich/, 3. [4], On 10 March 2014, Fat White Family issued their first single, "Touch the Leather", on Hate Hate Hate Records. Lias Kaci Saoudi from Fat White Family performs at We Love Green Festival Day 02 on June 5, 2016 in Paris, France. The Guardian. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. That was the main sentiment running through it. 22/09/2020. 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. [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. She said, Because you carry around home between your teeth. Theres a certain amount of sense in that. People talk about a blue pill and a red pill, he says. Its absurd. It was really packed at the front and they came out and started doing Song 2 and the place went fucking mental. Lias Saoudi. He is wearing a grey woollen rollneck, his hair tightly cropped, his face a little fuller than when I last saw him perform topless, cheeks drawn, lank black hair down to his shoulders. Retrieved 7 May 2021. I just thought it was amazing. 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. 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 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. That being said, when I saw the group play a tiny venue in France a few years back, just before they blew up, it was obvious they were pouring every fibre of their beings into the performance. The band were surprised, they say, when some people they showed it to were concerned about their choice of imagery. It was only ever really going go one way to a certain extent, which was complete anti-authoritarianism. PS: theres a playlist of music referred to inGood Pop, Bad Pop you can get a sneak peekhere. Family: Opening Hours: Monday - Wednesday: 1630 - 0000 Thur: 1630 - 0100 Friday: 1200 - 0100 But this was just spellbinding, it was such a dense experience. As a wholly independent publication, we rely entirely on our ad bookings to keep The Quietus going. Lockdown, basically. You reach a point where your attention span is just battered in. [Laughs] That was such a terrible move.Was it Shartic Monkeys?". 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? 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. Put a blanket ban on a term? I guess by [the standards of] a normal persons life I was definitely a junkie as well. The minute lockdown started to get eased in London, the old devils crept back in. 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. Happy birthday Yayoi See Yayoi's biggest gallery exhibition yet opening May 12th at . The approval of gay and POC DJs like Mike Servito and Carlos Souffront were particularly validating. The second surprise is his appearance. Am I a hoarder? PKM: Concerning COVID-19 and live music: So much of that lifestyle is dependent on being in very close contact. It makes me angry. It should be dirtier, it should be harsher., It is hard to imagine how it could be. Lias Saoudi performing with Fat White Family performs at South Facing festival, London, in August last year. If youve got 50,000 followers, then youve basically got a little TV channel. But then, my mums from the north of England, a working class coal mining family. Lias Saoudi: Exactly. 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 . It was sort of like rehab, says Saoudi. It shouldnt be like this, I tell myself, I should care more than I do. Theres not a mad rush on, which is kind of nice. YMMV on the purpose of art, but Lias seems clear in his personal standards. 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. Youre just, like, excavating your own life, he says. I havent learned how to do that during lockdown. Their second album, Songs for Our Mothers, was released in 2016 by the Without Consent label. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. 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. PKM: People are still in panic mode. Streaming and a life spent for the most part on tour in the decade that followed altered my listening habits considerably. 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. ", 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. Our government and your governmentits almost like nobody actually knows what theyre doing. Who is he to deny these people a pride in their national identity?" Im in some sort of musical cul-de-sac at the moment Im either listening to ambient or Bob Dylan. And a birthday shout-out (in cartoon form) to the one & only David Attenborough. I dont know. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. 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. Lias Saoudi, the band's frontman, has a reputation for shedding clothing at . Like, always siding with the IRA. But I think being half Algerian, raised in Northern Ireland and Scotlandtheres some sort of connection there, between the Berber people and the Celtic people, you know? Were the classic toxic men that everybody keeps talking about. Tastes Good With The Money from the Serfs Up album: Fat White Familys website: https://fatwhitefamilymusic.com/, PLEASE KILL ME INTERVIEWS THE FAT WHITE FAMILY. The Grass Arena by John Healy https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/05/biography, 5. 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. It just made all of that other stuff feel utterly tepid. A left in love with its own marginality. Theres other emotions I want to explore. For me, straight down the middle post-post-punk represents a collapse into nostalgia, born out of a refusal of the present, in a world where the future has been all but cancelled. It was quite painful for Saul to read it all back, says Stripe. All that stuffthats got obvious implications for how you actually perceive the world politically. Its me, Eddie by Eddie Limonov https://literaryreview.co.uk/its-me-eddie, 2. 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I think having pals like that around constantly can breed a certain kind of entitlement in you if youre not careful. Theres no deeper concept behind them and no deliberate provocation, they insist other than doing just that. I was really nervous, he recalls. That kind of lifestyle is underrated. I also found I could no longer remember the names of anyone I was into, everything became kind of ephemeral. (Seen and called, Connan.) 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.. Retrieved 7 May 2021. You can run too far without your own self-mythologizing. Whos to say what is and isnt personal to someone? 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 decided to devote my guest-edit of theObserversNew Reviewto investigating this question. I told them I thought Sash! His first book, Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure,co-written with Adelle Stripe (Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, Bloomsbury, 2019), is described by Miranda Sawyer inThe Observeras the story of a band thats always on the brink: of stardom, of madness, of brilliance, of disgrace. "It was sort of like rehab," says Saoudi. I wouldnt ever listen to Blur now but at the time there was a kind of melancholy about it. Its different, now. 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? Lias Saoudi: Maybe I dont have to, but thats the image, isnt it? 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. Hes never on his way to the party, hes always like, Do you know what? Theres a poem called The Word, about the way his dad speaks. 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. Within six months I think well have a very different landscape. Lias Saoudi: Im glad thats the way I am. We were embroiled in this, not satanic ritual, but adjacent, and a kind of alcoholic abyss, he says. 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. The kids in Cookstown, Northern Ireland, had few pastimes outside of . Making the thing is a never-ending agony, by the time its done youre like see you later. Read previous Sweet 16 columns with the likes of Beirut, Riz Ahmed, Johnny Marr, Shirley Manson, Matt Helders and many more. A feast of snakes by Harry Crews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Feast_of_Snakes, 6. Whoever its for, subscriptions allow us to keep producing Loud And Quiet and supporting independent new artists, labels and journalism. That's a pretty great show and tickets are still available. Its the combination of the beat and the sex noises that make me want to dance. I was kind of like, almost angry and bitter at it when it first kicked off, in a way. By now, momentum was ramping up exponentially. 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. And a birthday shout-out (in cartoon form) to . It begins in the medieval period, but largely focuses on the 20th century and disgust theory. I had decided some time ago that I was on my way to London at the soonest possible occasion to study art. 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. Given the complete absence of any kind of social life I was incredibly studious and this proved easy to accomplish. 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. Debaucherous UK band Fat White Family were in NYC over the weekend, playing Bowery Ballroom on Saturday night (10/18). 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 . Yesterday (22 September), Saoudi posted an essay on The Social clarifying his opinion on IDLES. Their grudges, not my grudges. The book pulls no punches. (LogOut/ Saoudi later tells me that, during the second or third lockdown, he cant remember which, he found himself in Ireland with another writer. After spending the six weeks of lockdown at a close friends house, Fat White Family front man Lias Saoudi is ready for a move. To a certain extent Ive had things that I want. 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. 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. People listen to me. He was waiting for the man., What did the band make of the book? Then we all got Covid. It was just the most fulfilling thing. Hes at liberty to capitulate if he likes, says Saoudi, who uses the word in Fat White Family song Feet. A self-professed humanitarian, Lias rejects the nihilist label, but he's got no problem talking drugs, art, politics . Im off.. Id been bullied and battered a bunch of times growing up but no beating contained such archaic mystification as that one. When you write lyrics, do you find you have to be compelled by a sense of anger? The histories relate quite closely. Lias Saoudi: If youre a band at our level or above, and youve already got a following, maybe theres some potential in it. What was that experience like? What are you supposed to do? They decided to bring Lias in, whose perspective as an outsider was valuable. By Gregg L. Friedman MD, Nirvana were really great - never liked any other 'grunge' bands, only later liked some Mudhoney - though i did own a flannel shirt, but, SAM CUTLER: LIFE WITH THE STONES, THE DEAD & OTHER WONDERFUL REPROBATES, ALL THE RAJ: HOW NORWEGIAN WOOD UNLEASHED THE INDIAN INVASION, THE KNACK AND HOW TO GET IT: AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESCOTT NILES, PLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF PKM FOR 2021, PART II, UTOPIA PARKWAY: THE ENDURING MYSTERY OF JOSEPH CORNELL. I reckon we should have enough for an EP . In choosing to attack two groups at once I believed I was demonstrating a supreme . Mog Yoshihara & Kelly Kiley at Rough Trade Management set up my Zoom conversations with contributors. 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. So yes, one day I genuinely had to stop myself driving up to London and finding him [Lias Saoudi, Fat White Family] because I go through fits and pangs of, like: 'Fuck off, just leave us alone'. Once you snag him, though, it's tough to get the Fat White . Support tQ's work by becoming a subscriber and enjoy the benefits of bonus essays, podcasts and exclusively-commissioned new music. We would smoke petrol bar hash, fondle each other and watch Elvis movies; a phenomenon for which she had a seemingly bottomless regard. A collection of domestic objects rendered in papier-mche in The grid. And she said she disagreed with the material fundamentally. They make me powerful. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? *Migrant workers from East Timor whod recently been brought in en masse to work the jobs at the meat packing plants, who the locals considered beneath them. Cabin fever set in long ago, and hes considering going down to Margate to search for a new home base. Lias Saoudi is the co-author of Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure, which is published by White Rabbit. THIS IS WHATS COOL! 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. 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. 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. 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. Lias Saoudi: I think its better if youve got some kind of fire in the belly. Other collections are more conscious: books, records, trainers, T-shirts, likes. It was the most incredible setting: a church with the largest church organ in France. Lead singer of Fat White Family, Lias Saoudi, self-pens a Bakers Dozen of thirteen musical choices that map his early life to the present day, from Ireland to Scotland, Cambodia to Algeria, via dark country and the howling void. So it really did get kind of monstrous as a result. Quinn wasnt present for those initial recordings, but when he heard what theyd made, he tells me over the phone in a separate conversation, it was just like, bloody hell! It was completely different to all the other house music around. Ive been reading loads of stuff like that recently. 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. 7 March 2008. But it happened much later. Its an ethos they intend to keep sticking to. It was that place that Id always imagined moving to London but never really found., In the days afterwards, he started to think about how he could bring that bacchanalian spirit to his own work. Blur were his go-to. Lias Saoudi performing with Fat White Family performs at South Facing festival, London, in August last year. 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. 00:00. 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 . 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. Michael Jackson - 'Black Or White'. Depending on what kind of guests you have round for tea or whatever, its the ultimate coffee-table placement the ultimate conversation-starter. 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