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British Desperadoes FAT WHITE FAMILY Show Soft Spot On Sensitive Single ‘WHEN I LEAVE’…

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Relaxing reveries for the laziest day of the week…

8 September 2019

All their devoted – bizarro and cranky – fans like me, know that rad British desperadoes
FAT WHITE FAMILY love to shock, love to trigger controversy, but most of all they love to write songs about the unlucky ones, the desperate ones, the depressed ones, the eccentric ones, hopeless ones and all sorts of outlaws who hate reality. Yes FWF has a soft spot for all the outcasts because they were born outcasts themselves.

‘WHEN I LEAVE’, one of the moodiest moments on their new LP (and released as its third single) seems to cover that passionate empathy for all of us who can’t cope with normality, exploitation and authoritarian political regimes where only the people that make money counts.

Capture the sensitive vibe here…

FAT WHITE FAMILY: Facebook

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From their newest album SERFS UP! Streamable on Spotify

(photo on top by Turn Up The Volume!)

FAT WHITE FAMILY Bombed DOUR FESTIVAL In BELGIUM…

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FAT WHITE FAMILY – Dour festival Belgium – Sunday 14 July 2019

Dedicated followers know that Turn Up The Volume has his eye and ears on wayward motherrockers FAT WHITE FAMILY from their early days on. So far this gang made 3 albums, 2 half great ones and one near-brilliant (their newest: Serfs Up!) and blew my hungry mind every time I saw them take a stage. Yesterday night at Dour festival in Belgium it happened once more again despite the fact that Saul Adamczewski and his astonishing live guitar psych play was nowhere to be seen or heard. He was replaced (partially) by a sultry saxophone player. Guess what? It worked damn well. Hell yeah!

Needless to say that hyperkinetic frontman Lias Saudi led the trippy troops again with a red-hot-blooded intensity and a raging persuasiveness. One day his head will explode on the podium. He’s the madman in the middle every single second. Yes, Lias, we know you wanna be the best. You know, you’re actually the best fucking ringleader on the planet right now of the only band that matters right now and that ended a steamy performance with the terrifically frenetic closer ‘Bomb Disneyland‘ leaving an ecstatic crowd behind begging for more. I’m still bloody tired after a long day/night writing this stuff this very moment so I’ll leave you with some visual impressions of the Fat Whites Bombing Dour…


Madman in the middle…


The Fat White Family Orchestra…


“I’m Mark E. Smith”…


Best ringleader on this troubled planet…


Believing in something better…

Stream new album SERFS UP! here…

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Singles/clips from the LP…

– FEET –

– TASTES GOOD WITH THE MONEY –

– WHEN I LEAVE –

FAT WHITE FAMILY: Facebook

(All concert pics by Turn Up The Volume!)

TURN UP THE VOLUME’S ALL STAR TEAM – Best Albums Of 2019… So Far

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The albums that had a buzzing impact on Turn Up The Volume‘s greedy ears so far this year…

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‘Drogel‘ by FONTAINES D.C. (Dublin, Ireland)
A razor-sharp modern day post punk record about youth’s anxiety and apprehension for the future. Packed with adrenalized ripsnorters having an instant impact on your body’s movements. These young Irish wolves with their charismatic frontman will be big soon.

Play here…


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‘Serfs Up!’ by FAT WHITE FAMILY (London, UK)
South-London‘s desperadoes are back with a versatile record of multi-layered tunefulness, hypnotic grooviness and funky psychedelia. Less provocative, but still enough wicked tales and barbed observations. Half speed, half valium. And live still one of the trenchant best!

Play here…

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‘Schlagenheim’ by black midi (London, UK)
Indie guitar explosiveness with an experimental bravado, a deafening weightiness, and an acute vox in the middle. Totally refreshing, nastily cutting and forthright. Imposing debut!

Play here…

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‘Welcome To Silvertown’ by SAINT AGNES
After years of sweaty work this 4-headed British psycho-blues-rock turbo released its
RIP-ROARING debut lonplayer filled with filthy licks, devilish hooks and hair-rising guitar electricity while singer/guitarist Kitty Austen leads the wicked troops with sensual panache!

Play here…

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‘Amyl And The Sniffers’ by AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS (Melbourne, Australia)
70s punk and glam rock revisited with kamikaze frontwoman Amyl Taylor spitting and sneering madly and wildly. The Runaways, The Plasmatics and Motörhead, all in one. Ace!

Play here…


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‘Peuk’ by PEUK (Belgium)
Smashing debut achievement by this fresh Belgian grunge engine with clamorous and soul-stirringly howling singer/guitarist Nele screaming her heart and lungs out and leaving you behind out of breath and pretty puzzled. Gloriously noisy and exorcistic! Hallelujah!

Play here…


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‘I Like You but Not Like That’ by THE DARTS
Sultry, steamy, snappy, savage, sensual, sweltering and sizzling. Yep, THE DARTS are back with their second LP! Furious garage fireworks to go nuts to the way YOU and THEY like it.

Play here…


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‘Musica Alla Puttanesca’ by MADONNATRON (London, UK)
Spellbinding sonic mantras wrapped in seductive tunefulness, both poppy and punky. Spooky stories interwoven with astute humor. And… best album title AND artwork in ages.

Play here…


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‘Pursuit Of Momentary Happiness by YAK (Wolverhampton, UK)
This glowing trio’s second LP surprises in a bizarre, yet very fascinating way by its mystifying mix of nastily loud and strangely quiet, its fuse of reflection and rage. Top!

Play here…

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‘SERFS UP!’ – Third LP By London’s Electro Groove Punks FAT WHITE FAMILY…

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Just released…

19 April 2019

Band: FAT WHITE FAMILY
Who: South London groove punks
Album: SERFS UP!
Turn Up The Volume says: too
much Valium, not enough ecstasy
NME verdict: 4/5 – read here

ALBUM in full…

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Here are the singles/clips…

– FEET –

– TASTES GOOD WITH THE MONEY –

– WHEN I LEAVE –

FAT WHITE FAMILY: Facebook

FAT WHITE FAMILY Shares Another Cut/Clip From Their New LP – Here’s Chill Out Groove ‘WHEN I LEAVE’…

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Brand new sonic impulses…

South-London‘s infamous desperados FAT WHITE FAMILY will release their new, third, album SERFS UP! tomorrow. For the impatient family freaks here’s, ahead of it, another new track after dropping lead single Feet  and the red-blooded follow-up Tastes Good With The Money earlier on. Chill out groove WHEN I LEAVE will lead you the woods, to the FWF’s headquarters. Here we go…

FAT WHITE FAMILY: Facebook


New album SERFS UP! out 19 April – pre-order facilities here

FAT WHITE FAMILY Shares Bloody Track From New Album – Here’s ‘TASTES GOOD WITH THE MONEY’…

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Brand new sonic impulses…

21 March 2019

Early January South-London‘s most notorious misfits FAT WHITE FAMILY dropped lead single FEET from their upcoming, third, album. A karma-like chant with a ghostly and magnetic vibe. A totally different beast compared to their The Fall influenced post-punk mayhem of the early days, although their controversial appetite for shock treatment is
still intact. Oh yeah, the gang just shared another cut from the new LP. ‘TASTES GOOD WITH THE MONEY’ is their ode to good old rich West-London. The song is a contagious, groovy, sing-along humdinger featuring a sequence with their amigo Baxter Dury. The clip is directed by electro-dance artist Róisín Murphy and is a freaky, deranged, horror-ific and totally bloody parody. C’mon let’s join the mess right here…

FAT WHITE FAMILY: Facebook


New album SERFS UP! out 19 April – pre-order facilities here 

(photo on top: Turn Up The Volume!)

FAT WHITE FAMILY Announces New Album And Shares Ghostly New Single ‘FEET’…

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Brand new sonic impulses…

10 January 2019

After their SONGS FOR OUR MOTHERS CD in 2016, FAT WHITE FAMILY‘s key members turned to other projects (Lias Saoudi joined The Moonlandingz and Saul Adamczewski formed Insecure Men). Obviously they still had time for another FWF album too. Third longplayer SERFS UP! will be out in April. Today the band dropped first single, called
‘FEET’ and it’s a totally different animal compared to anything they did before.

A press statement claims that: “Where once they soundtracked grubby Britain of vape shops, Fray Bentos dinners and blackened tinfoil, a crepuscular comedown realm stalked by Shipman, Goebbels and Mark E Smith, Fat White Family now inhabit another cosmos entirely.”

‘Feet‘ is an extended karma-like chant. A ghostly, magnetic and kaleidoscopic vibe. You’ll hear strings, a sort of monk choir in the back, cinematic sound sequences and lots of other stuff you wouldn’t associate with the collective once branded ‘the most dangerous new band in Britain‘. Hallelujah, I can’t wait for the new record. But first this close encounter of the third kind…

FAT WHITE FAMILY: Facebook


New album SERFS UP! out 19 April – pre-order facilities here 

(pic on top by TUTV!)