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

Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi

ISBN: 9781474617840S

£20.00

Signed hardback copy of Ten Thousand Apologies by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi.

First Edition, First Printing.

Hand signed by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi to the publisher’s bookplate.

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Description

‘This book is a rarity, the kind I hold near and dear to my heart. The story of The Fat White Family is equal parts high comedy and deep tragedy, just like life itself’ Mark Lanegan

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.

A unique concoction, full of beautiful lies and ecstatic truths – one of the finest music books in aeons — Kevin Barry

A jaw-dropping rollercoaster of tragi-comic mishaps and gargantuan drug consumption * Rolling Stone *

The tale is told by award-winning writer Adelle Stripe in a striking third-person prose that gives Ten Thousand Apologies a novelistic tone, interspersed with frontman Lias Saoudi’s raw, dark, mocking recollections that are also very, very funny at times . . . you begin to wonder why more biographies aren’t tackled with such invention . . . There’s no great redemption but it offers a quietly triumphant denouement that’s more palatable than boring atonement * Record Collector *

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Format Hardback
Publisher Orion Publishing
Published 24/02/2022
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