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Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure

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What’s that then?’ I said, expecting some pearl of ethereal wisdom from on high, some nugget of total truth only available to those that reach the source. I manage to calm them down by reminding Lias that when I met him before, about a month ago, he was just married. His wife a charismatic American. But, oh dear, they’re getting a divorce, and Lias is homeless. None of the four original band members have anywhere to live now the Queens Head has shut. They can’t afford London rents and they can’t claim housing benefit, so they crash wherever they can. Saul is at his girlfriend’s. Lias spent last night at his aunt’s in Tooting, in his niece’s room, in a single bed under a life-size cutout of The Vamps. Sawyer, Miranda (15 February 2022). "Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure review – band on the brink". The Guardian . Retrieved 16 February 2022. It all makes for an entertaining read, but you had to live it. Having to sit down and remember some of that stuff must have been difficult?

Nathan got hold of the freshly poured vintage and without a second thought dashed its contents straight into Mark’s face and down his trousers. Mark doubled over melodramatically and let out a Yes. We’re going to go on tour and I’m playing. I’ve written loads of new songs, I’ve almost got an album’s worth of material. I was neglecting the creative side of myself. That’s the salvation.” Saul spent five weeks “with these spirit world people”. And then, for aftercare, went to a rehab place in Vegas. He hated Vegas, “it’s like the apocalypse with fake tits”, but quite liked rehab.I think that’s always going to be the case. That’s part of your job, isn’t it? You’ve signed up for that and you can’t really complain when it all goes west because you have decided that everyone can live vicariously through you for a bit. Adamczewski’s influence has tended to come from his interest in abrasive music and extreme culture in general; Nathan made the band more self-sufficient (he was the driving force behind them setting up their Champzone studio in Sheffield’s Attercliffe district) and pushed them in a more polished, pop direction. Adamczewski is diplomatic about this, to a degree. “I wrote songs to fit on Serfs Up!, so there was something kind of inorganic about that. I didn’t like the way the label and management pushed to make Serfs Up! cleaner and poppier at every given opportunity, but to be fair, I did want to go in that direction myself. Though I do sometimes look at Alex when he’s doing a flute solo and think: how did this happen?” What’s interesting to me is that despite their differences, both bands consider themselves to be of the left. Fat White Family’s 2019 album Serfs Up! ruminates on the middle-class trappings sold to us by the ideology of social mobility. Tastes Good With the Money is particularly resonant for its wit and catchiness, and features an incisive interlude from guest vocalist Baxter Dury: “Gotta fathom your own legacy / Slimming shakes / Bathing on the right side of surprises / And a big mushroom cloud/ For the middle classes / Leaves a beautiful shape / For you to project your fears on to.” Show me a funnier and more withering summation of the red scare and status anxiety that defines today’s centrist factions. How much time had I spent with that man's voice rattling through my skull? I had to abandon his music at the start of my recording career because I couldn't help but imitate the guy whenever I

I was perfectly, supremely wired at this point. I was perched atop one of those moments in life that calls into question the validity of everything. At moments such as these it becomes hard not I laugh. He’s still very funny, Saul. How are his other emotions, though, without heroin to keep them at bay?Apart from yourself, name all four vocalists who appear on The Moonlandingz (your side project with Sheffield’s Eccentronic Research Council) 2017 ‘Interplanatory Class Classics’ album. Lias saw no live music when he was growing up, other than the occasional pub session with local folk musicians. He was bored. He read Matthew Collings’s This Is Modern Art and decided to move to London. When his older brother went to art school in Leeds, Lias saw that it could be done; he applied to the Slade School of Fine Art, and got in. But he didn’t like it, and left. In 2014, the post-punk and disco group Warmduscher formed and both Saoudi brothers and Adamczewski are on-and-off collaborators in the studio and at live sets. Other Fat White Family members with a more consistent role in Warmduscher are Harmer, Everett and Romans-Hopcraft.

Lias: “I like it when I don’t know my arse from my elbow. I’m interested in what happens when people collaborate, in chance mutations. My own ideas don’t interest me; they’re static in my brain.” each other like layers of snow, in silence. Nobody paid any notice. But suddenly there we were, sat at a table with the Hip Priest himself. Lead vocalist Lias Saoudi co-wrote the biography with author Adelle Stripe, and is described in a press release as "a music book that barely features any music, a biography as literary as any novel, and a confessional that does not seek forgiveness."Saoudi certainly wasn’t shy letting his hatred out when Margaret Thatcher passed away in 2013 and Fat White Family dangled a sheet with the words “The Bitch is Dead” from the Queen’s Head in Brixton, their unofficial HQ at the time (this, needless to say, before it reopened as a vegan gastropub). That was in bad taste and difficult to defend. However, it is understandable Saoudi might have a slightly different perspective on British politics compared to his peers.

We were at liberty to heap ridicule and scorn upon anyone and everything that didn’t quite add up in the world,” writes Lias about the band’s early years. It can take time to realise that the happiness that you sneer at in others is available to you. I sincerely hope that this book, along with everything else the Fat Whites create, is a world-beating success, and that mass adoration and cold hard cash will be theirs. And that they find the right way to soothe the turmoil in their sarcastic, artistic, political, absolutely nutted, still homeless souls. I had the distinct feeling that my life was hurtling towards some kind of crescendo. Ten years had gone past since getting involved with music. For the most part those years had fallen on top ofThe cowardice at the core of my being burned more fiercely than ever. He'd needlessly humiliated my little brother in front of everybody, and I just stood there dazed, wrapped in silence. Nathan The band, fronted by Southampton-born [1] and Castlegar/ Ayr/ Cookstown-raised Lias Kaci Saoudi, [2] formed in 2011. 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. [3] Nathan Saoudi previously played guitar with his older brother Lias in their former group, The Sauodis before becoming the keys player of Fat White Family. Adam Harmer (guitarist) had been a solo artist before joining the original six-piece lineup which also featured Dan Lyons on drums. streak of piss running down his thigh brought him much chagrin. You could hear him growling profanities in a semi-drunken stupor: a dribbling, hectoring totem, a cabaret washout gone to seed and taking it all out on this poor woman. Obviously, he was in the throes of serious drug addiction at the time, but Adamczweski is painted in a very bad light on multiple occasions. Did he have anything to say about that after he read it?

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