girlfriend, who also played synth for the group at the time, that he didn’t have another pair of trousers to change into. Smith" that forms part of the blurb and by the fact that Adelle's previous work, 'Black Teeth', was spectacular, that Fat White Family are flippin' aces and that White Rabbit consistently put out the best music books to be found on our shelves. 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". A book full of mad antics, and the occasional bit of music-“Fat White Family are a Drug band with a Rock problem. I have a soft spot for lo-fi having listened to such luminaries as the superb Kiwi Chris Knox through to US outsider musician Daniel Johnston.

This gives additional dimension to all of that trauma — and, if the words can be trusted, these men’s tolerance for abusing their bodies (and surviving) may not have a rival. At times the stories are disturbed and evoke a feeling a kin to that of watching a car crash slowly unravel, at others they're rife with a deep melancholic shade of blue that evoke a pure sympathetic desire for them to succeed and make it to the other side of the gauntlet. And yet, they clearly are/were a) whip-smart and b) had some important, conscious motivations for how they made music. He was staring into my eyes, munching his own speed-ravaged fea- tures, making an awful gummy sound as he did so.

Full of highs (lots of highs) and lows (some very very low lows) of life in early adulthood in an Art School band with a serious drug problem. Fully bound in purple cloth covered boards; front cover artwork embossed in black; acid-free Fedrigoni paper; Fabriano Tiziano mid-blue endpapers. There are some ridiculous levels of drug consumption that are occasionally hard to believe and it does become quite dark but there is always a funny scene/anecdote not far away.

Smith’, although I later found out from the Landlord that he’d stood and watched the whole thing, arms folded, the beginnings of a grin on his face. Worlds were reimagined where restraint and chaos merge, where the literary and idiotic are force-fed one another.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. Though she has done her work, interviewing Nathan and Saul extensively, as well as others, this book both starts and ends with Lias. Given Lias’ art school background (and Saul’s come to think of it), you’d think explaining how the output for these 21st C.

Fully bound in burgundy cloth covered boards; front cover artwork embossed in black; acid-free Fedrigoni paper; Fabriano Tiziano purple endpapers. I too moved to Sheffield for distance and peace and quiet, glad reading this coincided with the new release - I needed that. There is an amusing account of a bunch of ill-prepared junkies, setting out on the worst hike in history that nearly killed off the band’s main members, which would have been a suitably pathetic way to exit rock and roll.The book covers an expansive period of time, ranging from Lias' youth in various towns, such as Cookstown and Knocknacarra, to his drug addled time spent within The Fat White Family.