Raina Lampkins-Fielder introduced me to the work of the Gees Bend quilt-makers. The only thing that could destroy us is even a modicum of success, Lias jokes. One ready to go now, then another to follow quite quickly afterwards.. Theres no limit to how much that kind of technology could be abused. I dont really belong anywhere, you know? The process of writing forced Saoudi to confront many of the conflicts and resentments he and his bandmates had avoided for years. In choosing to attack two groups at once I believed I was demonstrating a supreme . Even for somebody like meeven for a hardcore cynic, it was difficult not to feel invigorated by that. Get Lias Saoudi setlists - view them, share them, discuss them with other Lias Saoudi fans for free on setlist.fm! The Fat White Family frontman on sonically tripping to Sarah Davachi, rewatching Threads and a heroic history of poo in art. Gift them a month or a full year. He had an incredible array of records in his living room that me and his daughter would help ourselves to. And he is appalled by what he describes as the establishment of a state of self-surveillance. Retrieved 7 May 2021. 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 Maybe thats a conventional opinion. So its a good time to be just making things, you know? Who is he to deny these people a pride in their national identity?" Rage. Making the thing is a never-ending agony, by the time its done youre like see you later. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. I went to this gig last October. Theres a poem called The Word, about the way his dad speaks. Its an ethos they intend to keep sticking to. If you dont like something, dont do it then.. Theres other emotions I want to explore. It was the first time Id been truly happy creatively since I was a teenager., Or at least thats one part of the story. 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. I gave up on collecting records around 13 years ago. Ive been reading loads of stuff like that recently. Theres a strange sympathy: youre dealing with an alien, and youre part-alien, and everythings inconclusive. [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. You get a little place in the country, and a really big garden, and a lot of dogs, and you can do pretty well. We were embroiled in this, not satanic ritual, but adjacent, and a kind of alcoholic abyss, he says. Like Lias, the Mays know the stresses of brotherhood in music. Address: The Social 5 Little Portland St London W1W 7JD. 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. We were homaging the kind of place where house music came from, gay, Black clubs in Chicago and New York, basically. But then it also hasnt helped my martyr complex. 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. This is the definitive account of Fat White Family's disgraceful and . I want to thank Jane Ferguson & her team at theObserverfor giving me this opportunity & putting everything together so it all makes sense. Nevertheless, Lias styled it out. 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. 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. 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. My parents had their own detatched bungalow in a fairly decent bit of town and two cars. CORRECT. Next was the single "I Am Mark E Smith" (referencing singer Mark E. Smith of the Fall), released 15 December 2014.[7]. Theyre just transient and it either resonates or it doesnt and the best you can do is completely ignore that hullabaloo. Typical of my big brother, hes so irresponsible in so many ways. 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. Its got to be one of the bravest, boldest records Ive heard in years its the brutal honesty combined with the acerbic wit of the lyricism that does it for me. Just go down to New Malden and howl some falsetto over a beat for a few hours. It was a bit heavy, that. It would be an insult to those guys to claim that I was a junkie. Mog Yoshihara & Kelly Kiley at Rough Trade Management set up my Zoom conversations with contributors. 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. I dont think Ive read anybody who manages to cut that open and dissect it so well. Bang to rights. For me, the reins were off. For the others, too, the project was a release. 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. What does the collecting impulse say about us humans? What do you think concerts will be like when people are allowed to gather in larger groups? 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. They were both obsessed with Bob Dylan, whose nasal whine I was completely adverse to. Musician Lias Saoudi discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. He is also the debut guest editor ofAmbit Pop, a new annual issue of the venerable quarterly arts magazine. We did a few demos earlier on in the year. Any hardcore fans of the Fat White Family will be greatly relieved to know that the famously tempestuous band were not locked down together, an occurrence which would surely have resulted in injury, death, or nervous breakdowns. I was so terrified I was gonna get crushed, I was this little dude getting thrown around, it was horrible. 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. And it really was more sporadic. Lias Saoudi: If youre a band at our level or above, and youve already got a following, maybe theres some potential in it. Were in Brixton, south London, longtime home of Fat White Family, to talk about Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure, a memoir of sorts by Saoudi and the journalist and novelist Adelle Stripe. As a wholly independent publication, we rely entirely on our ad bookings to keep The Quietus going. Really, really good positive energy. 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. Then we all got Covid. Yesterday (22 September), Saoudi posted an essay on The Social clarifying his opinion on IDLES. Im off.. Put a blanket ban on a term? Join us. Still, the vape represents something like progress, for it wasnt long ago that heroin nearly put an end to Fat White Family. All your different backgrounds, the influences of your families, what has that brought to the table that nothing else could? And a birthday shout-out (in cartoon form) to . I was a very violent person. Im a musician for Christs sake! Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? The Guardian. (LogOut/ The band, fronted by Southampton-born[1] and Cookstown-raised Lias Kaci Saoudi,[2] formed in 2011. ^ Campbell, Brian (19 February 2016). Ladies and Gentlemen, this then is Lias Saoudi. 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? ISBN-13: 978-1474617840. 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. The site covers music, art, culture, fashion, poetry and movies from the 60s through today. Continue this thread. 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. [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. 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. Whod have thought?, Anything with me in it. 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. ", "In a way Im grateful to the band IDLES," Saoudi continued. All that stuffthats got obvious implications for how you actually perceive the world politically. I, is released via The Leaf Label on November 4. Musician Lias Saoudi discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Nothing all that personal is ever laid on the table. That behaviour is tied to the darkest points of his addiction and Saul was very, very candid with me. It definitely planted a few seeds. Later, he was speaking with brothers Luke and Liam May, whose label Trashmouth Records had put out early releases by The Fat Whites (and their predecessor The Saudis), about his experience. Theirs is the sound of an inverse solidarity, one that revels in the sanctimonious condemnation of people not quite up to speed whilst offering up no valid counter strategy. Lead singer of Fat White Family, Lias Saoudi, self-pens a Baker's 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. That whole thing about living in a sort of post-truth ageI mean, the amount of information you get from all these angles, constantlyit becomes impossible to make up any kind of a concrete opinion as to what is actually going on. 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. And it doesnt matter which part of the media spectrum you go to, theyre all trying to crank it up to the max, so they can raise their heads above the parapet, above the din. Alas, I had by the age of 16 become a total loner, with nothing but a deeply entrenched sense of myself as culturally superior to keep me company. Lias Saoudi: Exactly. The band released Fat Whites/Taman Shud, a split EP with Taman Shud, on 11 December 2013 on Trashmouth. Ingrid Marie Jensen is a member of New South Story Lab. I gave up on collecting records around 13 years ago. Lias Saoudi: I'm going back up to Sheffield for a week before Christmas to finish The Moonlandingz LP with Adrian and Dean. To find out more, click here. With thanks to Adelle Stripe. Its an oxymoron. 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. Read previous Sweet 16 columns with the likes of Beirut, Riz Ahmed, Johnny Marr, Shirley Manson, Matt Helders and many more. 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. I had never been a words man really but in that moment I was changed forever. Its the combination of the beat and the sex noises that make me want to dance. In exciting news for fans, it has been announced that a new book about Fat White Family is on the way. I definitely feel like I dont have a tribe.. [18] It is nominated for the 2023 Penderyn Music Book Prize. 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. Well kill it before it grows!, Decius' debut album Decius Vol I is released on May 13 via Decius Trax. Im not particularly good at that. Why not? Lias Saoudi: Oh, sort of like auto-fiction vibes? Its absurd. It's a cringe-fest thinking back . A fantasy that Id spend ten years toying with or trying to kill, that I finally submitted myself to fully only recently, was born in me. Thats almost like having a chip implanted in you. Thats a long running project. 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. 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. 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. In 2011 he . The Absolute Mixture: Shit Art Positive by Matthew Bown. That kind of lifestyle is underrated. 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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. 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. Founding members Nathan, Adamczewski and guitarist Adam Harmer had all developed serious addictions. 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. ", Talbot also revealed that those comments did make him angry, "I do hold on to those grudges. 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. Lias Saoudi. Its such a great sermon to spit, its so righteous and damning. It was a real trip. Photo by Alex White. The Independent. Please whitelist our site in order to continue to access The Quietus. 1. Within six months I think well have a very different landscape. Lias choice of clothing in U Instead Of Thought might cross one boundary too many for some, however. [14] The album was described as "triumphant" and "transcendent" by Adelle Stripe in The Quietus,[15] and The Irish Times said it feels like a pop album you might slap on as the world is about to end or youve just learned Brexit has been pushed back to 2020.[16], Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure, is a recent biography of Fat White Family co-written by Lias Saoudi and Adelle Stripe. I feel less jaded, maybe, than some of my peers. Were not good at talking about our emotions, says Saoudi. Words by Lias Saoudi. But I had to come back after five days because everything just went mad on the lockdown. 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