Ten thousand apologies : Fat White Family and the miracle of failure
Stripe, Adelle, 1976-2023
Book
"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. Loved and loathed in equal measure since their formation in 2011, the relentlessly provocative, stunningly dysfunctional "drug band with a rock problem" have dedicated themselves to constant chaos and total creative freedom at all costs. Like a tragicomic penny dreadful dreamed up by a mutant hybrid of Jean Genet, the Dadaists and Mark E. Smith, the Fat Whites' story is a frequently jaw-dropping epic of creative insurrection, narcotic excess, mental illness, wanderlust, self-sabotage, fractured masculinity, and the ruthless pursuit of absolute art. Co-written with lucidity and humour by singer Lias Saoudi and acclaimed author Adelle Stripe, Ten Thousand Apologies is that rare thing: a music book that barely features any music, a biography as literary as any novel, and a confessional that does not seek forgiveness. 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"--Publisher's description.
Main title:
Ten thousand apologies : Fat White Family and the miracle of failure / Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi.
Author:
Stripe, Adelle, 1976-, authorSaoudi, Lias, author
Imprint:
London : White Rabbit, 2023.©2022
Collation:
326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Front garden like a prayer of grassMoonlight on the prison roofOne more faith bursting into flamesAin't no black in the Union Jackhell hath no fury like a failed artistPatience is starting to bruiseSport socks and a warm sweaterJerry Lee Lewis in a headlockIt started with a whimper and then there came a bangWho's the whitest boy on the beach?A type one situationRoll over AbdullahA brand-new kind of painDr Johnson's got the feelingSilence is easyLost in the garden of the numbSketching ruins in the darkCurtains, carpets, walls and ceilings.
ISBN:
9781474617857 (pbk)9781474617857 (paperback)
Dewey class:
782.421660922782.4216
Language:
English
BRN:
795792
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Melbourne Library | -Art and Culture | ARTS 782.4216 FATW | Available |