![]() ![]() Cabin fever set in long ago, and he’s considering going down to Margate to search for a new home base. 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.Īfter spending the six weeks of lockdown at a close friend’s house, Fat White Family frontman Lias Saoudi is ready for a move. ![]() 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. 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. They’ve taken countless bullets in the never-ending battle for free artistic expression, and produced some of the most lyrically fascinating albums of the past decade, to say nothing of the uncanny power displayed in their live performances. The South London band has been hailed as “Sweary, scary and willfully offensive…” ( The Irish Times) “… a lens through which contemporary life is exposed, investigated, and celebrated…” ( Domino Records) and “…the sonic equivalent of society coming unhinged” ( Rolling Stone). ![]() 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. ![]()
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