Lias Saoudi

Lias Saoudi
Saoudi performing with Fat White Family in 2021
Saoudi performing with Fat White Family in 2021
Background information
Born
Southampton
EducationSlade School of Fine Arts
Genres
Occupations
Member of

Lias Saoudi is a founding (and only constant) member of English rock band Fat White Family,[1] and also performs with The Moonlandingz[2] and Decius.[3] He was also in the original lineup of Warmduscher.[4]

Saoudi was born in Southampton and grew up in Scotland and Northern Ireland. His father was from Algeria and his mother from Yorkshire.[1]

He attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London.[1][5]

Musical career

Lias Saoudi formed The Saudis with his brother Nathan and Alex Sebley. Upon returning to the UK following an Algerian tour, the band "collapsed"; Sebley left the band and was replaced by Saul Adamczewski[6] after the breakdown of his own band The Metros.[7][8]

In 2011, Saoudi and Adamczewski formed Fat White Family while living in a squat in Peckham, South London.[1][9]

Saoudi was involved in numerous musical projects in the mid-2010s; In 2014 Decius released their first single, Come To Me Villa,[10] Warmduscher was formed in the same year with Saoudi as a founding member,[4] and the following year he formed The Moonlandingz.[2]

In the late 2010s to early 2020s, Saoudi's musical projects began to gain wider critical acclaim; Fat White Family released Serfs Up! in 2019, their first album on a major label (Domino), which was described as a "giant leap forward" by The Guardian,[11] while Decius released their debut album Decius Vol. I which made multiple album of the year lists in 2022.[12][13][14]

Writing

Saoudi started publishing autobiographical pieces on The Social Gathering during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom[15][16] under the title Life Beyond the Neutral Zone.

His work was included in the 2021 anthology of contemporary Irish authors The New Frontier: Reflections From the Irish Border.[15][17]

He is a guest editor for Ambit Pop, a new version of the literary magazine Ambit.[15][18]

In 2022 he published his semi-autobiographical book Ten Thousand Apologies, covering his childhood and the history of Fat White Family.[19] Co-written with Adelle Stripe,[19][20] the book became a Sunday Times Bestseller[21][22] and was named Rough Trade Records' Book of the Year.[23] It was shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize.[24]

Bibliography

  • The New Frontier: Reflections From the Irish Border. New Island Books, 2021.[15]
  • Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure. White Rabbit, 2022.[25]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Bromwich, Kathryn (18 March 2017). "On my radar: Lias Saoudi's cultural highlights". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  2. 1 2 "Getting To Know You: Johnny Rocket (Lias Saoudi) from The Moonlandingz". Loud & Quiet. 13 February 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  3. ↑ "Sleazy Does It: Decius Interviewed". The Quietus. 14 January 2025. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  4. 1 2 Dylan Wray, Daniel (21 May 2018). "A Glorious Day Out with Buzzing Post-Punks Warmduscher". Vice Media. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  5. ↑ "Slade 2009". Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  6. ↑ Saoudi, Lias. "Life Beyond the Neutral Zone #5". Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  7. ↑ Haresnape, Kate. "In Conversation: PREGOBLIN". God Is In The TV. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  8. ↑ Murray, Robin. "Metros To Split". Clash. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  9. ↑ Philpot, Eleanor (9 April 2019). "How Fat White Family clawed their way out of the gutter to make record number three". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  10. ↑ "Decius". Discogs. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  11. ↑ Mongredien, Phil (21 April 2019). "Fat White Family: Serfs up! review – a giant leap forward". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  12. ↑ "Best of 2022 – Top 25 albums". Juno. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  13. ↑ "musicOMH's Top 50 Albums Of 2022". MusicOHM. 21 December 2022. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  14. ↑ "Quietus Albums Of The Year 2022 (In Association With Norman Records)". The Quietus. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  15. 1 2 3 4 Galustian, Natalie. "Lias Saoudi". Greyhound Literary. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  16. ↑ Saoudi, Lias. "Life Beyond the Neutral Zone". Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  17. ↑ Fox, Caoimhe. "The New Frontier: Reflections From the Irish Border". Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  18. ↑ Milroy Maher, Daniel. "Introducing Ambit Pop – the new, guest-edited version of iconic literary magazine Ambit". Ambit Pop. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  19. 1 2 Catchpole, Chris. "Apologise, I won't: get an exclusive first look at Fat White Family's new book". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  20. ↑ Sawyer, Miranda (15 February 2022). "Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure review – band on the brink". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  21. ↑ "Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure: A Sunday Times Bestseller and Rough Trade Book of the Year (Paperback)". Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  22. ↑ Hamilton, Matthew. "'Ten Thousand Apologies' by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi is a Sunday Times bestseller". The Hamilton Agency. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  23. ↑ "UK Books of the Year 2022". Rough Trade. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  24. ↑ "2023 Prize Winner". 26 March 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  25. ↑ Saoudi, Lias (2022). Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure (First ed.). London, UK: Orion. ISBN 9781474617840.
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