I did dabble a bit on the old Countdown, Saoudi laughs. 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. Im very proud of that background. Lias Saoudi is the frontman of rock bands Fat White Family and the Moonlandingz. Id been bullied and battered a bunch of times growing up but no beating contained such archaic mystification as that one. 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. 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. "Oh man! WERE WE ALL BRAINWASHED BY THE CIA WITH SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK & ROLL? Join Facebook to connect with Lias Kaci Saoudi and others you may know. My parents had their own detatched bungalow in a fairly decent bit of town and two cars. Lockdown, basically. You can run too far without your own self-mythologizing. Its not a power that can actually be taken away from somebody. Life Beyond the Neutral Zone - Lias Saoudi 03/04/2020 He would reveille at 7am, drink a strong coffee, take a bath, write until noon, luncheon, read for four hours, practice the flute for half an hour, go for a two hour walk, dine out, then take in a play or a show in town. Published 24 February 2022 by White Rabbit. I think its one of those things that to sort of successfully pull it off, you have to be able to pair off with somebody. But singer Lias Saoudi and his compatriots had no such trouble. He is also the debut guest editor ofAmbit Pop, a new annual issue of the venerable quarterly arts magazine. 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. 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? ISBN-13: 978-1474617840. 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. Its different, now. Next was the single "I Am Mark E Smith" (referencing singer Mark E. Smith of the Fall), released 15 December 2014.[7]. 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. Or did I think I was laying things away for a rainy day? The Grass Arena by John Healy https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/05/biography, 5. 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. 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. They met up sporadically, about once every month or two. I wouldnt ever listen to Blur now but at the time there was a kind of melancholy about it. Get Lias Saoudi setlists - view them, share them, discuss them with other Lias Saoudi fans for free on setlist.fm! In choosing to attack two groups at once . What do you think concerts will be like when people are allowed to gather in larger groups? 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. Last year, Sleaford Mods and Fat White Family voiced their issues about IDLES, with Sleaford Mods' Jason Williamson writing that they were "appropriating, to a certain degree, a working class voice", while Fat White Family's Lias Saoudi described the band as "self neutering middle class boobs". 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. In exciting news for fans, it has been announced that a new book about Fat White Family is on the way. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Streaming and a life spent for the most part on tour in the decade that followed altered my listening habits considerably. Read previous Sweet 16 columns with the likes of Beirut, Riz Ahmed, Johnny Marr, Shirley Manson, Matt Helders and many more. Musician Lias Saoudi discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. 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. We did a few demos earlier on in the year. It seems undignified somehow. I didnt want to sit and watch Countdown., Well, thats not quite true. I want to morph into a writer at some point, like at age 40. [18] It is nominated for the 2023 Penderyn Music Book Prize. All rights reserved. Instead, he says he was inspired by his recent viewing of David Cronenburgs M. Butterfly, in which a French diplomat falls in love with a traditional Chinese opera performer who is in fact a male spy in disguise as a woman. ", 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. I went to a Protestant school as a result. 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. Whoever its for, subscriptions allow us to keep producing Loud And Quiet and supporting independent new artists, labels and journalism. THE SHOCKING LIVE TELEVISION SUICIDE OF A NEWS ANCHOR! 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. I had decided some time ago that I was on my way to London at the soonest possible occasion to study art. 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 doubt that he knows exactly whats going on in that song, but the more I listen to it the more I think about it., Its a sexy number. Or listen to our Sweet 16 live podcast series. I feel less jaded, maybe, than some of my peers. 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. To find out more, click here. I havent learned how to do that during lockdown. Otherwise everything you write is like just absolute drivel. Theres no limit to how much that kind of technology could be abused. [6] Pledgers were given the self-released EP Crippled B-Sides and Inconsequential Rarities. It was like Elvis, everyone could agree on that up to a point and then suddenly we could no longer agree on Michael. 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. FWF frontman revisits his 16-year-old self for our latest Sweet 16 column. A left in love with its own marginality. I gave up on collecting records around 13 years ago. Theyre all very fragmented, but as it proceeds it starts to descend into darker, more autobiographical sketches. At that point we had an album recorded, so we just started recording another, says Luke. Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi. Plans for a fourth album were temporarily ground to a halt with the advent of the pandemic, and the band were forcibly scattered to the winds with the cessation of travel between countries. 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. Retrieved 19 April 2019. For me, the reins were off. For the others, too, the project was a release. Mog Yoshihara & Kelly Kiley at Rough Trade Management set up my Zoom conversations with contributors. Johnny Vaughan and Denise Van Outen, they was a pair. Lias Kaci Saoudi from Fat White Family performs at We Love Green Festival Day 02 on June 5, 2016 in Paris, France. We were homaging the kind of place where house music came from, gay, Black clubs in Chicago and New York, basically. You dont want to be in the middle of the countryside with just a dog, do you? Words by Lias Saoudi. She said, Because you carry around home between your teeth. Theres a certain amount of sense in that. The approval of gay and POC DJs like Mike Servito and Carlos Souffront were particularly validating. In choosing to attack two groups at once I believed I was demonstrating a supreme . Since forming in 2011, Fat White Family have released three acclaimed albums of insalubrious post-punk and are known for their provocative live performances. Wed just hit record, go for as long as we want, says Luke. Hed never had that much interest in electronic music before, but a couple of my mates who dressed like characters from The Matrix were real techno heads, so I thought Ill give it a go. It ended up being completely transformational. 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. 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. 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. Theres a scene at the end when Jeremy Irons cuts his own throat in prison, and its just a continuation of that sentiment, he argues. They decided to bring Lias in, whose perspective as an outsider was valuable. 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. 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. But how will COVID-19 effect gigs? 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. Our government and your governmentits almost like nobody actually knows what theyre doing. Sitting watching TV, I remember the video came up. It was Quinns idea to start booking some early live shows, the most pivotal of which was at 2019s Glastonbury Festival. 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. After the world being shrunk down to nothing, socially, to see that big explosion of color and life, it was an inspiring experience. 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. They were musical geniuses. To a certain extent Ive had things that I want. 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 . So what begins as a kind of formulaic rereading ends up becoming quite shocking, exposing borderline damning bits of self-exhibition and self-laceration. 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. In 2013 Lias Saoudi, who was then laying low in Berlin after the recording of his band Fat White Family's debut album Champagne Holocaust, went out to Berghain. Julian House designedGood Pop, Bad Pop& also brought his unique graphic sensibility to bear on this edition of theNew Review. Javi Aznarez drew a wonderful cartoon. Since forming in 2011, Fat White Family have released three acclaimed albums of insalubrious post-punk and are known for their provocative live performances. Im off.. Nevertheless, Lias styled it out. Once you snag him, though, it's tough to get the Fat White . The band were supposed to do an ultra-late-night set at Baby's All Right but it ended up not happening. This is the definitive account of Fat White Family's disgraceful and . This is a compendium thats the worlds first comprehensive book-length study of the scatological in art. All that carry on, for me, is circumstantial and social. 250 subscribers in the TheFatWhiteFamily community. Yesterday (22 September), Saoudi posted an essay on The Social clarifying his opinion on IDLES. Theres a strange sympathy: youre dealing with an alien, and youre part-alien, and everythings inconclusive. And it really was more sporadic. Theres a poem called The Word, about the way his dad speaks. Lias Saoudi. I, is released via The Leaf Label on November 4. It's a cringe-fest thinking back . Lias Saoudi sits down in the pub, takes a sip of Guinness and immediately starts sucking on a vape. 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. 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. Given the complete absence of any kind of social life I was incredibly studious and this proved easy to accomplish. 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? 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. Limits to Medicine by Ivan Illich https://joannamoncrieff.com/2016/04/18/limits-to-medicine-re-visiting-ivan-illich/, 3. It begins in the medieval period, but largely focuses on the 20th century and disgust theory. It just made all of that other stuff feel utterly tepid. Then we all got Covid. By the time youve finished tinkering with them and fucking about with them you never want to hear from them ever again. It was really packed at the front and they came out and started doing Song 2 and the place went fucking mental. 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. If it makes him feel any better, the tundra of abuse I received from both his fanbase and that of the Sleaford Mods after that outburst did rattle me to the core. From then on, Weve really been punching above our weight in terms of where weve played so far. He cites raucous shows at Fold in Canning Town and a New Years Eve show at the now defunct Tottenham club The Cause, as similarly important. 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. 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 the I belong bit, there can be no half-measures. As a wholly independent publication, we rely entirely on our ad bookings to keep The Quietus going. Its hard not to get channelled into the same sort of cul-de-sacs youve been down loads of times before. 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. 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. I remember being asked if l liked the Sash?** by a group of lads at school around that time; I thought they were referring to Encore Une Fois by the French dance outfit Sash!, which had not long since been a huge hit. Even Anish Kapoor makes an appearance. Lias Saoudi: Its one of those things that just doesnt work. We would smoke petrol bar hash, fondle each other and watch Elvis movies; a phenomenon for which she had a seemingly bottomless regard. 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 The Fat White Family frontman on sonically tripping to Sarah Davachi, rewatching Threads and a heroic history of poo in art. Like Lias, the Mays know the stresses of brotherhood in music. He is published inTheNew Frontier: Reflections From the Irish Border(New Island Books, 2021) an anthology of new writing from some of Irelands greatest contemporary authors marking the centenary of partition. I took to rendering my own image in charcoal, gouache and oil paint posturing like Egon Schiele whom I severely admired. Edition of theNew Review on the way his dad speaks setlists - view them, them. 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