Lias Saoudi, lead singer of the English rock band Fat White Family, has been described as a drink and drug-wracked nihilist degenerate, not to mention an enthusiast of onstage nudity, Nazi history, and animal carcasses. A self-professed humanitarian, Lias rejects the nihilist label, but he’s got no problem talking drugs, art, politics, fascism, classism, gentrification, yuppification, or anything else you want to throw his way.
His band’s the most exciting thing to come out of the U.K. in years, and Lias’s voice is surely one of the most compelling. So sit back, turn off the lights, and enjoy this After Hours conversation with the inimitable Lias Saoudi.
I think our music is steeped in vicious sarcasm and irony and classic British repression, and I’m not sure if everybody in the American music listening public cottons on to those things quite so easily as they do over there.Lias Saoudi
Lias Saoudi Discusses:
The perils of touring in AmericaPlaying with Sean LennonArriving in New York for the first timePartying in New York versus LondonThe best Fat White Family gig everGrowing up in Ireland and ScotlandHow his musical tastes formedMoving to London to attend art schoolDiscovering he was a singerHis relationship with Saul AdamczewskiThe songs he’s most proud of writingThe enemy of artLondon’s disappearing live music venuesThe birth of Fat White FamilyPre-rockstar day jobsEarly days at the Queens Head PubRecording their first album Champagne HolocaustPlaying in Paris on the night of the terrorist attacksBeing politically outspokenHis anger at the gentrification of LondonThe U.S. Presidential raceMusicians being the lowest form of human lifeThe current state of rock n’ rollPerforming nakedFat White Family’s drug usePlaying live vs the studioWhat he’s readingThe MoonlandingzLinks
Fat White Family – Bandcamp
Fat White Family – Facebook
Fat White Family – Twitter
Fat White Family – Spotify
Fat White Family – Live on David Letterman
“Goodbye Goebbels” – YouTube | Spotify
“Tinfoil Deathstar” – YouTube | Spotify
“Cream of the Young” – YouTube | Spotify
“Touch the Leather” – YouTube | Spotify
The Moonlandingz – Spotify
The Fight by Norman Mailer
London’s disappearing live music venues
Eagles of Death Metal lead singer’s Paris terrorist attack comments
