Fat White Family & various offshoot bands (Moonlandingz, Insecure Men, Warmduscher, Pregoblin etc)
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This looks pretty great!
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It really was.
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I saw them last summer and they were on such great form. I’d seen them a couple of times before and they had been either a disaster or a triumph
They seen to be smashing it out of the park right now 
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I saw them last summer and they were on such great form. I’d seen them a couple of times before and they had been either a disaster or a triumph
Even when they play a bad show the underlying thing that makes them so good is still apparent and present.
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Yep. Which is why I’ve persevered even when they’ve been fucking shit sometimes
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Tbf I'd be worried if I had the same taste as LG fans.
Lias Saoudi has written a great piece for The Quietus about supporting Liam Gallagher at Knebworth - lols all the way through
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(I saw Saoudi doing a solo set at a festival in the summer and he was incredible btw - was always agnostic about FWF but keen to see them next time they tour)
Surfing The Lad Totale: Lias Saoudi On Supporting Liam At Knebworth | The Quietus
All live photographs courtesy of Paayarazzi As a child, I used to suffer from a recurrent nightmare, well, not a nightmare exactly, more a compulsive envisaging. I used to picture a truck tire balanced on the prick of a pin. For reasons unbeknownst to me, this image filled me with horror. A...
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(I saw Saoudi doing a solo set at a festival in the summer and he was incredible btw - was always agnostic about FWF but keen to see them next time they tour)
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Absolutely brilliant writing and as funny as fuck.Lias Saoudi has written a great piece for The Quietus about supporting Liam Gallagher at Knebworth - lols all the way through
Surfing The Lad Totale: Lias Saoudi On Supporting Liam At Knebworth | The Quietus
All live photographs courtesy of Paayarazzi As a child, I used to suffer from a recurrent nightmare, well, not a nightmare exactly, more a compulsive envisaging. I used to picture a truck tire balanced on the prick of a pin. For reasons unbeknownst to me, this image filled me with horror. A...
(I saw Saoudi doing a solo set at a festival in the summer and he was incredible btw - was always agnostic about FWF but keen to see them next time they tour)
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That's such a beautiful song and sentiment that it's made me proper cry.
I don't know why. Fucking hell
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Ugh. She's manufactured isn't she.
I have no problem with that, I'm listening to all her stuff on YouTube, but she has a team behind her.
Which is cool etc but I was kinda hoping that she's be more of the Pregoblin, FWF ethics of music. 49000 listens per month on Spotify.
I'm still crying over how beautiful the music is though.
Whay a quandary! Hope she makes it. She deserves to.
I have no problem with that, I'm listening to all her stuff on YouTube, but she has a team behind her.
Which is cool etc but I was kinda hoping that she's be more of the Pregoblin, FWF ethics of music. 49000 listens per month on Spotify.
I'm still crying over how beautiful the music is though.
Whay a quandary! Hope she makes it. She deserves to.
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No, she isn't. At all. She writes, performs and produces all her own stuff and has been at it for fucking ages. And she's one half of Pregoblin, who have toured with the Fat Whites.
Jessica Winter is the Robert Smith-approved synth-pop goth making sad songs you can 'crance' to
Jessica Winter is the Robert Smith approved synth-pop goth making sad songs you can 'crance' to.
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I don't care if she is or isn't.
I fucking love it and have shared it, through my tears of how great it is.
I haven't been moved by an artiste in this way for so long that the emotion I'm feeling is a welcome release.
I fucking love it and have shared it, through my tears of how great it is.
I haven't been moved by an artiste in this way for so long that the emotion I'm feeling is a welcome release.
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She really isn’t.
She is definitely her own person. What are you basing this assumption on?
She’s ambitious and she knows the music industry is, yunno, an industry so she‘s increasing her chances, taking advice and guidance from people she believes to be better skilled or informed on certain stuff than she is. She’s decided to follow a particular trackway, maybe she sees that including behind the scenes skills and connections that more apparently earthy artists (like the FWF) eschew.
Every successful act has a team really. Manager, agent, press agent, tour manager, engineer, producer, road crew, and the ones that keep the home fires burning, they’re part of the team too.
The band is a team for the songwriters, sometimes they get to contribute too.
If your team also involves stylist PA writers or whatever, why is that less authentic? Is Madonna fake, or Gaga? They’ve got Teams.
Jessica is really talented. It’s a pity she and Alex Sebly don’t seem to be working together anymore cos they came up with some top stuff.
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The whole schtick of the talented individual battling the high seas of indifference to bring you bluesy truth that pierces the indifference of the everyday…. All that necessitates a really huge number of people who are dedicated and committed to being invisible to the punter.
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Maybe she's just what I couldnt be and I love her for that.
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Yeah, I hear you on that.
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She is definitely canny. She knows what she wants, she knows there’s a time limit on her chances and opportunities, so she’s doing the necessaries to push through to where she wants to be.
Alex should take note, I reckon. He needs to focus his attention and be more clear in his ambitions. He’s an excellent and interesting songwriter and he should have started focussing on that several years ago instead of putting all his hopes into Pregoblin. He deeply wanted to to be a pop star though, and spent those years chasing that dream. He’s far to old for that now, so hopefully (and no doubt reluctantly) he’s put that aside now. (I hear a rumour that he’s currently working with a huge international star.)
Alex should take note, I reckon. He needs to focus his attention and be more clear in his ambitions. He’s an excellent and interesting songwriter and he should have started focussing on that several years ago instead of putting all his hopes into Pregoblin. He deeply wanted to to be a pop star though, and spent those years chasing that dream. He’s far to old for that now, so hopefully (and no doubt reluctantly) he’s put that aside now. (I hear a rumour that he’s currently working with a huge international star.)
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Alex and various Fat Whites were at the Old Dispensary last night (drinking, not playing) for the Johnny Carter tribute.
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I was at the 100 Club for Deadletter and Heartworms,
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For the first time since 2000 when I lived in LJ and used to pop into the Albert but was too shy to say Hi I'm feeling like I should jump on a train and meet you two finally and just fan geek about all the brilliant new bands out there.
Never actually met a real life Urbanite.
Never actually met a real life Urbanite.
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For the first time since 2000 when I lived in LJ and used to pop into the Albert but was too shy to say Hi I'm feeling like I should jump on a train and meet you two finally and just fan geek about all the brilliant new bands out there.
Never actually met a real life Urbanite.
We can still talk about the bands at a distance though.
My current top tips:
Beige Banquet (such a horrible name but there you go). The front man is the bass player, who doesn’t actually sing (singer is on guitar, over on stage right) but he’s definitely the front man
The Early Mornings
Heartworms
Blitz Playhouse
Old favourites include Meatraffle and SCUDFM (Iggy played them on his show last week) and Paddywak. I’m not so keen on FatDog but plenty like them a lot.
Keep an eye on Lou Smith’s YouTube channel, he films a lot of the gigs for this scene.
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