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Life Beyond The Neutral Zone #15: An Evening At The Royal Ballet – Lias Saoudi

This week started badly. Like so many weeks of its kind it was proceeded by a triumphant weekend. A reunion…

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Life Beyond The Neutral Zone #14: Birmingham Joy – Lias Saoudi

As luck would have it we received news that Lias would be DJing at The Social and this piece entirely…

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Life Beyond The Neutral Zone #13: Thoughts On Roisin Kiberd’s The Disconnect – Lias Saoudi

As part of our on going ‘We Are One’ week we’re pleased to share this special broadcast from Lias Saoudi…

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Life Beyond The Neutral Zone #12 – Lias Saoudi

I recently asked the Irish novelist Rob Doyle to make a contribution to an edition of AMBIT magazine I’d been…

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Life Beyond The Neutral Zone #11 – Lias Saoudi

Quick, there’s very little time to spare. We’re almost at the end. The weekends here are impossible as far as…

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Life Beyond The Neutral Zone #10 – Lias Saoudi

When this crisis started, when every live music event in the entire world was cancelled pretty much over night for…

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Life Beyond The Neutral Zone #9 – Lias Saoudi

My grandmother on my mum’s side, Patricia, died young, in her early fifties. My memories of her are faint, the…

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Life Beyond The Neutral Zone #8 – Lias Saoudi

In a state of frenzied arrogance around 18 months ago I took it upon myself to hurl a few digital…

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Life Beyond The Neutral Zone #7 – Lias Saoudi

Around the time I started writing these posts I also started writing a collection of personal essays about various periods…

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Life Beyond the Neutral Zone #6 – Lias Saoudi

Stood outside Downing Street yesterday I saw something that cut through even my own iron clad pessimism. I haven’t been…

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Life Beyond the Neutral Zone #5 – Lias Saoudi

The biggest thing clouding my vision is my martyr complex. Even with all the bountiful fruits that life has delivered…

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Life Beyond the Neutral Zone #4 – Lias Saoudi

Of all the weird and wonderful tales to have emerged in the last six weeks, my little brother deciding to…

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Life Beyond the Neutral Zone #3 – Lias Saoudi

Certain aspects of my personal hygiene have taken a backseat in recent weeks, with nobody around who could possibly care,…

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Life Beyond the Neutral Zone #2 – Lias Saoudi

In the second of our regular collection of letters from Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi, the writer’s mind travels from Brixton’s…

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Life Beyond the Neutral Zone – Lias Saoudi

Arthur Schopenhauer, it was reputed, would stick to a strict daily routine. He would reveille at 7am, drink a strong…

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A Literary Celebration of The Social: 25 Years

Join White Rabbit for a night celebrating The Social’s immense literary legacy, as a home for authors, poets, publishers and…

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White Rabbit Live Presents: Ava Anna Ada

TICKETS WHITE RABBIT LIVE PRESENTS: AVA ANNA ADA The debut novel by Ali Millar, in conversation with Miki Berenyi Plus…

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The New Cue: Read This And Party

TICKETS The New Cue – the world’s greatest music newsletter – is throwing a special end of year bash at…

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White Rabbit Books Nightmare Before Christmas Double Bill

POSTPONED White Rabbit Books Nightmare Before Christmas Double Bill Wednesday 14 December Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, in conversation with David Keenan…

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White Rabbit Books Nightmare Before Christmas Double Bill

POSTPONED! White Rabbit Books Nightmare Before Christmas Double Bill Wednesday 14 December Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, in conversation with David Keenan…

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White Rabbit Books presents Ten Thousand Apologies

Join frontman Lias Saoudi and co-writer Adelle Stripe for an evening of TEN THOUSAND APOLOGIES, their definitive, depraved and excoriating…

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DESOLATE SPOOLS 

Live: ADULT ENTERTAINMENT, WET MAN, DIMITRI, DAMP CARPET + SPECIAL GUEST DJ: LIAS SAOUDI (FAT WHITE FAMILY/THE MOONLANDINGZ) TICKETS Desolate…

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THE SOCIAL GATHERING X WHITE RABBIT BOOKS AT THE SOCIAL

THE SOCIAL GATHERING X WHITE RABBIT BOOKS AT THE SOCIAL The Social Gathering and White Rabbits Books join forces! Combining…

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The Social Gathering At The Social

With special guests Lias Saoudi, Anna Wood, Pete Fowler, Sophie Green + more The first in a new series of real…

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Have They Nothing Better To Do? – Rob Doyle

In the latest in a series of collaborative exchanges with Lias Saoudi of the band Fat White Family – which…

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