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

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And yet, they clearly are/were a) whip-smart and b) had some important, conscious motivations for how they made music. This is the story of a band that’s always on the brink: of stardom, of madness, of brilliance, of disgrace. It is also a story about immigration and integration, about class politics and the (often self-defeating) struggle for identity. Actually, Lias’s description of that festival – the grubby glamour, the sweaty tent – is so accurate that it could bring on a sympathetic nervous breakdown.

And this is even without mentioning the wonderful description of having a life-changing epiphany while being forced to listen to Ronan Keating while working a summer job in a Dungannon meat factory. 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. Notice to Internet Explorer users Server security: Please note Internet Explorer users with versions 9 and 10 now need to enable TLS 1. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 'The story of a band that's always on the brink: of stardom, of madness, of brilliance, of disgrace' Miranda Sawyer, Observer 'You begin to wonder why more biographies aren't tackled with such invention' Record Collector 'This book is a rarity' Mark Lanegan 'One of the finest music books in aeons' Kevin Barry From the mountains of Algeria to the squats of South London via sectarian Northern Ireland, Ten Thousand Apologies is the sordid and thrilling story of the country's most notorious cult band, Fat White Family. stick to your guns once they show you the slightest bit of attention; it goes too well with the cocaine you’re forever sniffing.This no holds barred, raw account of the rise and fall of one of the best indie rock bands this century and is destined to become a classic rock 'bio' (of sorts). The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.

If one is into say the more experimental pop of The Beatles they may find them a curio, they also might be surprised about a very strong link to those musical superstars if they read/listened to this exceptional book.Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi – book review.

Apologies began seeping out, animosity began thawing into a kind of camaraderie, Mark obviously found it all quite amusing. Emily Spowage is perfect for the 3rd person telling, and this is offset superbly by the world weariness of Lias narration.

His partner, a demure and painfully involved French aristocrat, seemed to be hanging off the wrong arm. 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). Deftly co-written by author Adelle Stripe and FWF singer Lias Saoudi, and perfectly summarised by the former: "A drug band with a rock problem". The dual narration of Stripe and Saoudi offer the reader a narrative that weaves a chronological story with sporadic anecdotes and insights. 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.