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:
00:01 - Lias on drugs
01:41 - The perils of touring in America
05:14 - Upcoming Fat White Family shows
05:57 - American crowds
07:31 - Growing up in Ireland and Scotland
09:06 - Becoming a songwriter
10:02 - Lias’s relationship with Saul Adamczewski
10:50 - Favorite Fat White Family song he’s written
11:41 - The enemy of art
14:06 - The birth of Fat White Family
15:55 - The Queens Head Pub
16:22 - Recording the first Fat White Family album
17:13 - Playing in Paris on the night of the terrorist attacks
18:24 - Being politically outspoken
19:10 - The gentrification of London
19:51 - The U.S. presidential race
20:20 - Sex, drugs and rock n roll
26:21 - Latest Fat White Family album
27:37 - Playing live vs. the recording studio
28:25 - What’s next?
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