Fat White Family: Last News

Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi laid into IDLES’ Joe Talbot during a riotous set at Glastonbury‘s Woodsies stage today (June 29).Saoudi, sporting skin coloured mesh tights, poked fun at IDLES’ set on the Other stage last night (June 28), during which Talbot led a chant of “Fuck the King!” and inadvertently took part in a Banksy-assisted protest.Before a rendition of ‘I Am Mark E Smith’, Saodui dryly announced: “This is a song about my feminist zeal – it’s called ‘I am Joe Talbot'”, and later acknowledged the chants at IDLES set by saying: “God save the King! Fuck off”.It’s not the first time the bands have come to blows. Back in April, the Fat White Family frontman accused them of “grandstanding on that woke ticket”.FAT WHITE FAMILYまた変なバンド見に来ちゃった。サイコーなサイコ pic.twitter.com/uoakqHIsaS— d（asa） (@mosh_mushroom) June 29, 2024In a conversation with The Independent, he said at the time: “I don’t mind bands being dull or whatever, fair enough, but when you’re grandstanding on that woke ticket I just find that anathema to what rock n’ roll really is, which is the reprobates.

Glastonbury Festival has announced the full 2024 line-up for Strummerville, featuring Frank Turner, Lambrini Girls and more.The legendary Worthy Farm event will take place between June 26-30, boasting headline sets from Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA, as well as performances from the likes of Shania Twain, LCD Soundsystem, Little Simz and The National.Following the initial wave of acts being confirmed in March, organisers have been drip-feeding separate posters for the festival’s many areas and stages – including Left Field, Woodsies, The Glade, the Acoustic Stage, Silver Hayes, The Common and The Park.Today (May 16), Glastonbury has dropped the full day-by-day programme for Strummerville – its area dedicated to the late Clash frontman Joe Strummer, who played Glasto’s main stage in 1999.Located high on the hill by Worthy Gate, the space offers “the festival’s finest viewpoint, Joe’s iconic 24-hour campfire, cafe and CasBar”. Its “humble” live stage hosts “some of the finest and eclectic talents out there”.This year, it’ll be headlined by Dennis Just Dennis, Rompa’s Reggae Shack, Ged Lever and Cumbia Kid.

Fat White Family have hit back at what they describe as “baseless tales of implosion” and claims that they have disbanded.The group shared the update on Facebook earlier today (April 30), alongside a link to their recent appearance on the Riley & Coe Live In Session with BBC Sounds.With the caption, the indie group seemed to address recent reports that they had split, and confirm that they are still together and set to embark on the upcoming live shows as scheduled.“Baseless tales of implosion in the gutter press this morning,” they began.“Allow me to clarify a few things… Fat Whites isn’t a band. It’s an idea. Like liberalism.

Fat White Family frontman Lias Saoudi has laid into IDLES, accusing them of “grandstanding on that woke ticket”.The band have previously criticised the Bristol outfit, siding with Sleaford Mods when frontman Jason Williamson accused IDLES of “appropriating a working class voice” and said their take on politics is “cliched, patronising, insulting and mediocre”, adding that he doesn’t “like them at all”.At the time, Saoudi said they were 100 per cent with Williamson, and added that “the last thing our increasingly puritanical culture needs right now is a bunch of self neutering middle class boobs telling us to be nice to immigrants; you might call that art, I call it sententious pedantry.”Now, he has taken a further pop at the Bristol band yet again.Saoudi told The Independent: “I don’t mind bands being dull or whatever, fair enough, but when you’re grandstanding on that woke ticket I just find that anathema to what rock n’ roll really is, which is the reprobates. This is freak country.

Fat White Family have announced a 2024 UK and European tour in support of new album ‘Forgiveness Is Yours’ – find all the details below.The South London rock band will embark on the run of dates in May and June to celebrate the release of their fourth studio album, out April 26 via Domino.They will kick off with a set at Levitation Festival in Angers, France on May 25, followed by stops in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and more.The UK leg will continue at SWX in Bristol on June 8, before they hit cities including Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle, with a final performance set to take place at Troxy in London on June 19.Fan pre-sale via the band’s mailing list starts at 9am local time on Wednesday (February 21) with general onsale going live 9am local time on Friday (February 23).You can purchase tickets to the UK dates here, and find details for all remaining shows on their official website.A post shared by @fat_white_family“Every time we make an album, we swear to ourselves this is our last. Nothing can be worth that pain, that misery,” said Fat White Family in a press statement.“Then a bunch of people show up at the gigs.

Fat White Family have announced details of their fourth studio album, ‘Forgiveness Is Yours’, and shared new single ‘Bullet Of Dignity’.The band’s new album will be released on April 26 via Domino, and follows first preview ‘Religion Of One’, which came out in late 2023.Discussing the new album in a statement, frontman Lias Saoudi said that ‘Forgiveness Is Yours’ “is about life as eternal contingency…about no longer suspecting, but knowing that this shit will never get any easier…in fact, it’s about to get a whole lot worse, your body’s going to go into decay and the people you love will slowly start dropping dead around you…but somehow, you’ve smashed enough of your expectations thus far in life, you’re sort of fine with it…you accept it”.Watch the video for the new track below.1. ‘The Archivist’2. ‘John Lennon’3. ‘Bullet Of Dignity’4. ‘Polygamy Is Only For The Chief’5. ‘Visions Of Pain’6. ‘Today You Become Man’7. ‘Religion For One’8. ‘Feed The Horse’9. ‘What’s That You Say’10. ‘Work’11. ‘You Can’t Force It’The new album is the band’s first in half a decade, following 2019’s ‘Serfs Up’.

Pete Doherty at a recent London gig, following the launch of their new single ‘Big Hitters’.The band is the new project of Jessica Winter and former Fat White Family collaborator Alex Sebley, who are set to release their debut album ‘PREGOBLIN II’ in January next year.Now, at their most recent live show in Brixton last night (September 13), the indie band celebrated the release of their new single, and brought out The Libertines frontman Pete Doherty to the stage.The gig was held at the Windmill venue in the country’s capital, and saw Doherty join Winter and Sebley for the recent single they released together, ‘These Hands AKA Danny The Knife’.The two joined forces to create the song earlier this year, and following its release back in July, the musicians confirmed it to be centred around themes of loneliness and a lack of fulfilment that comes after one has achieved all their biggest aspirations.

Pete Doherty has teamed up with Pregoblin on their latest single ‘These Hands AKA Danny The Knife’. Check out the track below.The single is the latest track to be released from Pregoblins – the new band of former Fat White Family collaborator Alex Sebley – and sees the band team up with indie legend and Libertines frontman Pete Doherty.According to the press release, Doherty took time out of his busy schedule of touring and recording with the Libertines and touring with French songwriter/producer Frederic Lo, to contribute vocals to ‘These Hands AKA Danny The Knife’, and the lyrical content behind the single focuses on themes of loneliness and a lack of fulfilment.“‘These Hands’ is about a young person’s dream of being in a band and getting famous and the unhappiness, loneliness and unfulfillment that comes with fame when you get there,” said Selbey of the new release.It was recorded in Brixton and produced by Dante Traynor – check out the accompanying music video below, which centres around the cobbled streets of La Rochelle on the French coast.Discussing the collaboration between the band – comprising Sebley and Jessica Winter – and Doherty, Sebley explained why he felt the contribution worked.“I see Peter’s overall work in line with the romantic poets of the past.

Fat White Family have announced they will hit the road next month for a UK tour of socially distanced venues.The South London band will perform at venues including London’s The Lexington from May 17, in support of their recent film Moonbathing In February – which captured the band as they worked on their upcoming fourth album.We are thrilled to announce that, in the wake of a quite frankly astonishing response to our recent film Moonbathing in February, we will soon be hitting the road to perform some of the new material debuted within,” the Fat Whites wrote on Twitter.We are thrilled to announce that, in the wake of a quite frankly astonishing response to our recent film 'Moonbathing in February', we will soon be hitting the road to