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

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Een stel buitenbeentjes met veel talent die zowel muzikaal als qua levensstijl niet voor de makkelijke weg kiezen. Was thinking about it constantly between reading and there was something special about being taken back to the period of time spent listening to FWF records as a college and university student, seeing them play at home in a Swindon pub of all places, going White Hotel for Moonlandingz (one of the best gigs I've ever been to).

Nathan got hold of the freshly poured vintage and without a second thought dashed its contents straight into Mark’s face and down his trousers. It is to Saoudi’s credit that he doesn’t spare himself taking responsibility for his often fractious relationship with his increasingly volatile brother, and an ongoing inability to tackle Adamczewski’s often overbearing and self-destructive behaviour.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. We were excitedly filling him in when some kind of heinous commotion could be heard unfolding in the adjacent tent, Mark E. His partner, a demure and painfully involved French aristocrat, seemed to be hanging off the wrong arm. They were residing at Babington House for the duration of the festival, an offshore fantasy of effortless comfort and gourmet everything.

You could hear him growling profanities in a semi-drunken stupor: a dribbling, hectoring totem, a cabaret washout gone to seed and taking it all out on this poor woman. 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. Wasn’t hugely keen on some of the formal choices which disjointed the narrative quite a bit, also felt time was eschewed in a confusing, not too impressive way, but felt that the whole thing was authentic in a way that so few books are. With rare exceptions such as bank holidays, the book group meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 7.In a way this memoir seemed like an antidote to the cult of celebrity that surrounds most rockstars, removing them from their inherently flawed humanity and placing them on a pedestal where even their flaws turn into charming idiosyncrasies or necessary costs of genius.

From the astonishing tales of debauchery and degradation detailed in this book, it is clear that the existence of Fat White Family isn’t so much a career as an extended exercise in self-loathing. 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. Aan de ene kant pijnlijk te lezen hoe destructief ze zijn, maar eigenlijk blijft het nooit lang triest in het boek.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. Bewonderingswaardig, was het niet dat ze allemaal een eigen sterke wil hebben, zich volstouwen met drugs en veel slechte beslissingen maken. Nathan was the one wearing the smirk now, and suddenly it was Brixton that was pissing itself while Salford spat venom. The Landlord had been assuring me for some weeks that the solution to my Glastonbury 2015 dilemma – we had two slots on the Sunday, one at 4 a.