Lias Saoudi: Most of the new record, some of the old record, and then whatever else we might come up with in between times. 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. 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 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. Everyone was naked, fucking each other on a cocktail of drugs and it never stopped. Under no circumstances would I ever willfully agree to that. They met up sporadically, about once every month or two. 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. Michael Jackson - 'Black Or White'. 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. 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. (Seen and called, Connan.) Their first proper video, U Instead Of Thought, was released last Summer, featuring Lias painted as a geisha, opening and closing a parasol in time with the tracks grubby beats. Please whitelist our site in order to continue to access The Quietus. Nobody was the focal point, everybody was the frontperson. The Grass Arena by John Healy https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/05/biography, 5. I had my eyes closed the whole time and I drifted into a kind of trance. Why not? Follow us. Lias Saoudi is the frontman of rock bands Fat White Family and the Moonlandingz. Photograph: Joseph Okpako/WireImage. I think thats something Id like to move away from: monotone rage and anger. 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. Really, really good positive energy. I dont understand where the line is. Theres an incredible amount of stuff in there: Paul McCarthy, Duchamp, GG Allin, who Im an admirer of. Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure. Theyre just transient and it either resonates or it doesnt and the best you can do is completely ignore that hullabaloo. Seeing your friends after months, the hangovers just end up blaring into each other. PKM: It seems like another way for the government to track you. For news and discussion about South-Londons finest. I liked uppers and socialising and chasing girls around. I associate that accent with my mum, so theres an inherent innocence to all the characters that makes it absolutely visceral. Theyre all very fragmented, but as it proceeds it starts to descend into darker, more autobiographical sketches. "On my radar: Lias Saoudi's cultural highlights". Thats almost like having a chip implanted in you. Lias Kaci Saoudi of Fat White Family/Moonlandingz is a difficult man to get on the phone. 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. You can stream "I Am Mark E Smith," and check out a few more in flagrante (NSFW) instagrams from FWF's Bowery show, below---, 100% naked 75% of the show. [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. Raina Lampkins-Fielder introduced me to the work of the Gees Bend quilt-makers. Im constantly looking for somewhere to kind of like, make home, but it never really adds up. Then Id have just one record. Nor does Saoudi, who turns 36 next month but certainly hasnt softened. Im saying: this is what I believe in. 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 feel like I learn anything about Joe Talbot by listening to Joe Talbot. People talk about a blue pill and a red pill, he says. I went with my brother and I remember him taking me to the front before they went on. It sounds exactly like the reason we got into dance music, but fifteen years earlier says Liam, as he and his brother join Saoudi and I for drinks in a Brixton pub. 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? So what happened? By the time youve finished tinkering with them and fucking about with them you never want to hear from them ever again. 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. Id been bullied and battered a bunch of times growing up but no beating contained such archaic mystification as that one. It was a bit heavy, that. To find out more, click here. I was a very violent person. Lias Kaci Saoudi from Fat White Family performs at We Love Green Festival Day 02 on June 5, 2016 in Paris, France. The world wide web became quite popular around the same time. For all four of the musicians, it was something they deeply needed. It begins in the medieval period, but largely focuses on the 20th century and disgust theory. [4], On 10 March 2014, Fat White Family issued their first single, "Touch the Leather", on Hate Hate Hate Records. I cant stop listening to it. You reach a point where your attention span is just battered in. Published 24 February 2022 by White Rabbit. 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. [6] Pledgers were given the self-released EP Crippled B-Sides and Inconsequential Rarities. As soon as we got some live gigs we started getting it together a bit more, says Quinn. Like Saul belongs in South London, but its impossible to put down roots here because of the money. Why am I standing in front of a stage looking at some questionable hero? Other collections are more conscious: books, records, trainers, T-shirts, likes. In recent years Ive noticed this awful feeling creeping over me every time I pick up my phone to select a track if theres folks round my flat. And making a music video is like hanging them up on a meat hook in the public square, you dont want anything to do with that ever again. Momentum built, but very gradually at first. 7 March 2008. Im in some sort of musical cul-de-sac at the moment Im either listening to ambient or Bob Dylan. Just go down to New Malden and howl some falsetto over a beat for a few hours. Lockdown, basically. [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. The band were supposed to do an ultra-late-night set at Baby's All Right but it ended up not happening. What are you supposed to do? We would smoke petrol bar hash, fondle each other and watch Elvis movies; a phenomenon for which she had a seemingly bottomless regard. I hope people refuse that, completely. I just thought it was amazing. 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 band, fronted by Southampton-born[1] and Cookstown-raised Lias Kaci Saoudi,[2] formed in 2011. You can run too far without your own self-mythologizing. "It's not even a good pun! Change). Albums became predictably much less relevant. "Oh man! 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. 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. 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. 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. They make me powerful. 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. Its not a power that can actually be taken away from somebody. You cant really have a bunch of tunes on while youre busy concocting alternative truths and softcore character assassinations. When youve got a new project, theres that sweet spot at the beginning when everythings just for your own amusement. Lias Saoudi: Most of them are in panic mode. Life doesnt work like that. But I had to come back after five days because everything just went mad on the lockdown. LOUD AND QUIET 2023. (LogOut/ 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. I went to this gig last October. The Fat White Family frontman on sonically tripping to Sarah Davachi, rewatching Threads and a heroic history of poo in art. You need all of your focus for that. 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. 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. 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. I also found I could no longer remember the names of anyone I was into, everything became kind of ephemeral. It was just this completely nightmarish situation.. "For no other phenomenon in music over the last few years elucidates more clearly the brazen inconsistencies of the U.S. import social justice faith currently permeating every facet of our culture. 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. 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. Lias Saoudi: I think its better if youve got some kind of fire in the belly. 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