3 June 2024

TUTV follows British misfits FAT WHITE FAMILY since the day his ears got perplexed by their 2013 debut LP Champagne Holocaust, a controversial piece of drug-fueled mental disorder.

The same year I saw them playing live for the first time. It happened in my hometown of Ghent (Belgium), in a small club with about 50 people checking out this new post-punk gang and spreading the exciting word afterward. Last Saturday in Antwerp it was the 6th time I saw them and the audience go bonkers.

Again, it was a FUCKTASTIC EXPERIENCE. Another changed line-up, but producing the
very same FLABBERGASTING FUROR as before. Chaotic, insane and baffling. As all fans know Lias Saoudi is the driving force, the heart and soul, the great voice, and the emotive engine of FWF.

His magnetic live presence, his charismatic, go-getter way of performing, and his mood-swing vocal pizzaz are overwhelming. Without the drugs, now sipping tea, Lias‘s physical condition is as powerful as Rocky Balboa‘s one in his boxing heyday.

As their new brilliant, 4th album Forgiveness Is Yours is by far their best, their most complete and sonically/lyrically different one, I wondered how songs of it would go
down live. It went down the jaw-dropping FWF way.

They integrated half of the LP seamlessly – making the new, capricious spoken-word-waterfall jam Today You Become Man work perfectly live is nothing less than amazing –
in their familiar classic setlist with imperishable golden post-punk oldies ‘I Am Mark E Smith’, ‘Tinfoil Deathstar’, Satisfied, Hits Hits Hits and grandiose closer ‘Whitest Boy On
The Beach‘.

A Fat White Family concert is like having an aural orgasm, is like experiencing a psychedelic trance in an overheated sauna, is like watching/hearing THE BEST FUCKING BAND IN THE WORLD WITH THE BEST FUCKING FRONTMAN IN THE WORLD. Don’t break up, yet, motherrockers.

Here’s an idea of their life excorcism.

FORGIVENESS IS YOURS
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All photos by Turn Up The Volume