Fat White Family
| The Fat White Family | |
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 Fat White Family live at the Immergut Festival (2016) |
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| General information | |
| origin |
Peckham , London , United Kingdom
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| Genre (s) | Post punk , rock |
| founding | 2011 |
| Website | www.fatpossum.com/artists/fat-white-family/ |
| Current occupation | |
| Lias Kaci Saoudi | |
Guitar , vocals |
Saul Adamczewski |
| Nathan Saoudi | |
| Severin Black | |
guitar |
Adam J. Harmer |
| Taishi Nagasaka | |
| former members | |
Drums |
Jack Everett |
bass |
Joseph Pancucci-Simpson |
Drums |
Dan Lyons |
The Fat White Family is a British post-punk band from Peckham, London . The band has provocative lyrics and is known for their provocative live shows.
Band history
The band was founded in 2011 around front man Lias Kaci Saoudi. Two band members, Saul Adamczewski and Joseph Pancucci-Simpson (bass) came from the band The Metros . In 2013, Thrashmouth Records released their debut album with the provocative name Champagne Holocaust . The cover artwork was also seen as a provocation:
“An emaciated male body with a pig's head, the said champagne bottle on the pig's head. Two tears are beading from the sad pig's eye on the left, a chain with a cross around the neck. The “creature” spreads arms, stubbly legs and the trimmed tail dangling to the knees. In the left hand a blood-stained hammer, in the right a blood-stained sickle. "
A video was shot for Touch the Leather that shows singer Lias Kaci Saoudi in the foreground, smoking a cigarette and singing along to the lyrics, while a bare bottom moves in the background. Lyrically and lyrically, the first album was very explicit, the lyrics partly vulgar and full of sexual allusions. Her live shows are also characterized by the use of various body fluids and sexual innuendos. In 2014, the band received the Philip Hall Radar Award at the NME Awards .
In 2016, the second album Songs for Our Mothers was released , which showed the band more musically mature, but again offers provocative lyrics. The video for Whitest Boy on the Beach shows Nazi skinheads being humiliated in a darkroom . The album peaked at number 63 in the UK.
Music style and lyrics
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The Fat White Family plays post-punk, which is made up of different styles of music such as wave , britpop , punk , lo-fi , garage punk and, from the second album, also disco music . Lyrically, the band uses a puzzle with political inaccuracy and a fascist aesthetic, but describes itself as a radical left band. The texts encompass various forms of breaking taboos, mainly focusing on sexual perversions and Nazi chic. One song is also about the British serial killer Harold Shipman . Musically, the band is reminiscent of a modern version of Velvet Underground . References to The Fall are also given. One of their song titles is also I Am Mark E. Smith , named after the singer of the band .
Discography
Albums
- 2013: Champagne Holocaust (Trashmouth Records)
- 2016: Songs for Our Mothers (Without Consent)
- 2019: Serfs Up (Domino Recordings)
Compilations
- 2014: Crippled B-Sides and Inconsequential Rarities (in-house production)
Singles and EPs
- 2013: Fat Whites (Split EP with Taman Shud , Trashmouth Records)
- 2014: Touch the Leather (Hate Hate Hate Records)
- 2014: I Am Mark E. Smith (10 ", Without Consent)
- 2014: Auto Neutron (12 ", Trashmouth Records)
- 2016: Whitest Boy on the Beach (7 ", Without Consent)
- 2016: Breaking Into Aldi (7 ", Without Consent)
- 2016: Tinfoil Deathstar (Without Consent)
Web links
- Fat White Family on Fat Possum Records
- Fat White Family at laut.de
- Fat White Family at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philip Süthoff: The Fat White Family are fat, white and ugly. Noisey , August 29, 2014, accessed June 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Fat White Family: Weirdest Speech at NME Awards. New Musical Express , February 27, 2014, accessed June 4, 2016 .
- ↑ UK chart positions for Fat White Family. Officialcharts.com, accessed June 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Andreas Borcholte and Torsten Groß: Listened - new music: shut up, make love! Spiegel Online , January 19, 2016, accessed June 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Fat White Family at laut.de.