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FAT WHITE FAMILY – The Best Live Band Of The 21st Century Bombed Brugge, Belgium

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15 October 2026

A week ago I went to London to see the fabulous
THE STROKES, who delivered a fabulous show.

One of the support acts was British controversial post-punk gang
FAT WHITE FAMILY, and last Monday they came to Belgium to bomb
the historic city of Brugge.

For the 15th time (the first time was in my hometown of Ghent back in 2014, with
50 people in a small club) they blew me away with a flabbergasting uppercut concert.

Their latest full-length, their 4th, titled Forgiveness Is Yours in 2024.
A stunning record that went Top 5 in TUTV’s end-of-year albums.

Now back to Brugge. The 7 manic misfits went for an insane, baffling best-of set
with, as usual, the perplexing Lias Saoudi in the middle, who’s also active with
The Moonlandingz and Decius.

When he hits a stage, he always invites his demons along for a bewildering fight.
He sings, screams, howls, and wails like a possessed madman who just escaped
from a psychiatric facility.

His erratic presence, go-getter performance style, and mood-swing vocal exorcism
are overwhelming. One day his head will explode on the podium. Without the drugs,
Lias‘s physical condition is as powerful as Rocky Balboa‘s one in his boxing heyday.

He’s backed by a mean killer machine, with changing lineups over the years, but flanked by his brother on keyboards and the awesome guitarist  Adam J Harmer as 2 of the original members.

No lows, only mind-messing and scream-along highs, including I Am Mark E Smith,
Feet, Whitest Boy On The Beach, Is It Raining In Your Mouth, Touch The Letter,
and the destroying closer Bomb Disneyland.

After 75 minutes, FWF were done. Saoudi‘s demons were floored,
and the audience needed some time to get back to reality after
experiencing the jaw-dropping extravaganza.

Best frontman and best live band of the 21st century.

FORGIVENESS IS YOURS


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Adrenaline Shots – FAT WHITE FAMILY With Boggling Live Version Of ‘I AM MARK E SMITH’ (2015)

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4 April 2026


Lias Saoudi – Fat White Family – Brussels 2016 – Photo by Turn Up The Volume

Notorious British post-punk dropouts FAT WHITE FAMILY with one permanent
member throughout their journey, the high-octane frontman and lyricist Lias Saoudi
who becomes an obsessed man on a mission when he sets foot on a stage, and who’s
also involved in other projects (The Moonlandingz / Decius) run amok, forth and back, for
15 years now.

In their drugs-infused, turbulent existence they have, so far, released 5 LPs,
the newest a jawdropping live one, called Konk If You’re Lonely.

But here we go back to a moment in 2015, playing their 2014 haymaker
I AM MARK E. SMITH, which shows why the Family is one of the best live
bands of this Century. Fact!

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BEST LIVE ALBUM Of 2025 – FAT WHITE FAMILY At KONK STUDIOS

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19 December 2025

Band: FAT WHITE FAMILY

Who: Notorious British crackpots, fronted by singer/lyricist Lias Saoudi,
along with guitarist Adam J Harmer the only two permanent members
over the years. Their musical architect Saul Adamczewski left last year,
for the umpteenth time.

To my ears and eyes, one of the best bands, on stage and on record, of the
past two decades. So far they have released 4 LPs, with Forgiveness Is Yours,
which came out last year, as their most challenging opus. A mindbending mix
of psychedelic pop-rock-punk extravaganza.

Fast-forward.

Nick Cave, Cypress Hill, Queens Of The Stone Age and Björk, all had notable live
albums out this year, but except for Iggy Pop’s Live At Montreux Jazz Festival
double LP, misfits Fat White Family had no competition whatsoever with their
own bone-chilling KONK IF YOU’RE LONELY exploit.

The album’s front cover features guitarist Adam J Harmer.
No idea what they want to express with it. As usual, only
the band knows (I guess).


Lias Saoudi – FWF in Antwerp, Belgium 2024 – Photo by Turn Up The Volume

You get a mix of capricious highlights of their
past 4 longplayers. No suckers, all fuckers.

Saoudi dominates this stonk-er of an album all the way. The most demonic
frontman of the 21st Century backed by an ever-changing lineup, but always
an awe-striking band. He sounds as if he’s an exorcist who wants to exorcise
himself. His creepy howls make your hair in the back of your neck stand up.
Petrifying and stupefying. Nobody can touch him.

Welcome to FWF’s nightmare.

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British Rock Anarchists FAT WHITE FAMILY Have TEN THOUSAND APOLOGIES For The Release Of A New Book

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23 September 2021

Band: FAT WHITE FAMILY

Who: Gang of controversial and self-destructive anarchists from Sheffield/London that miraculously survived after 10 years of drugs and tons of other toxic situations in and
out of the band but they also managed to produce 3 longplayers and to be one of the most exciting/flabbergasting/frenzied bands that hit the stage this century, in my book.

Here’s an idea…

Book: TEN THOUSAND APOLOGIES

Authors: Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi, the Family’s charismatic frontman
(I wonder what Lias’ part will be in the book, as I doubt that he can remember
a lot about the past brain-damaging 10 years).


(Lias looking for inspiration for the book in Brussels (2016), photo by Turn Up The Volume)

White Rabbit says: “Co-written with lucidity and humour by singer Lias Saoudi
and acclaimed author Adelle Stripe, Ten Thousand Apologies is that rare thing: a music book
that barely features any music, a biography as literary as any novel, and a confessional
that does not seek forgiveness. This is the definitive account of Fat White Family’s disgraceful and radiant jihad – a depraved, romantic and furious gesture of refusal to a sanitised era.”

Out: February 2022 via White Rabbit Books
Pre-order info: via Rough Trade


(The Lou ‘heroin’ Reed days of musical maestro Saul Adamczewski
photo by Turn Up The Volume – France 2016)

Most recent FWF album
Serfs Up! (2019)

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