Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure

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You’ll be good until tonight, beamed the Landlord, the corners of his mouth pulled back in pseudo-parental glee. They'd never been to the festival before and they were on a high, despite finding out that our set the next day clashed with Lionel Richie’s. Like a good documentary, a good music book will get you interested in an artist who you previously had no interest in.

Brad Elterman has photographed numerous bands and artists since the 1970s including Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Sex Pistols, Runaways, The Who, ABBA, Blondie, Michael Jackson, Ramones, Madonna, Iggy Pop, etc. If you’re doing drugs, the difference between smack and coke seems vast and obvious; if you’re not, such actions seem completely mad. Recommendations came and went and Fat White Family for some reason came up, so I played their Serfs Up album, more based on what I thought was a very good name for an album than anything else. From childhood traumas to adult squalor and critical success, it is a tale of bitterness, humour, excess, cruelty, and the vile affections that bind this exceptional pairing on their continued Orphean descent into the underworld.They were residing at Babington House for the duration of the festival, an offshore fantasy of effortless comfort and gourmet everything.

The style elevates a rather predictable story to a completely unreal level where every page makes you ask the question why aren't all biographies written this way. It is also a story about immigration and integration, about class politics and the (often self-defeating) struggle for identity. ACT Contact / FAQ About Events / Videos Merch / Subs Sign in/up Ten Thousand Apologies : Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure Stripe, Adelle, Saoudi, Lias More by this author. No sane person will not be revolted or repulsed by at least a few parts of “Ten Thousand Apologies”, but like that crack-encrusted pipe so beloved by many members of Fat White Family, you won’t be able to put it down.

But………that does not matter as this book is better than just another drug fuelled rock and roll story. It is concerned with the travails of the art-rock provocateurs Fat White Family, whose tales of poverty, addiction, mental illness, and the drudgery of touring might be completely off-putting on the page if they weren’t written in such a bleakly hilarious way by author Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi (the latter the singer with the aforementioned band).

It may not make for the best music but it certainly makes for a compelling story and repeatedly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. which, on the other hand, when speaking about these punks, might actually be the most fitting endings of all. He was staring into my eyes, munching his own speed-ravaged fea- tures, making an awful gummy sound as he did so. His film work has been nominated for a Special Jury Prize at Tribeca Film Festival and his photography has been widely published online and, in print, in the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone UK, and in the London Times Bestseller, Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure.Just as the band finally seem to be breaking through to the mainstream, Covid lockdowns stop their momentum and they’re back on their uppers again, skint, nowhere to live.

My music tastes are incredibly broad, I can take in anything from any works of the classical world through to obscure noise musicians, and even in my mid-sixties I am looking for new music to challenge me. Ten Thousand Apologies” is surely one of the most grimly compelling books ever written about the dehumanising effects of the music industry. A revealing examination of the dysfunctional songwriting partnership at the heart of one of Britain’s most unpredictable and controversial contemporary rock ’n’ roll bands, Sweating Tears with Fat White Family features candid interviews by author Adelle Stripe with Fat White Family singer Lias Saoudi and guitarist Saul Adamczewski. The madness, intelligence, and belligerence of the main protagonists is nothing short of mesmerising.When he leaves, “clean and sober for the first time since he was 12”, according to Ten Thousand Apologies, he is welcomed back to the fold with a few lines of cocaine. After a few uneventful days of sweating and coughing alone in his bedroom on the top floor of his father's semi-detached in suburban Cambridge, events took a serious turn for the worse. There is a socio-economic/political element within this, which gives it the credentials of a State of the Nation piece.