This week started badly. Like so many weeks of its kind it was proceeded by a triumphant weekend. A reunion…
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As luck would have it we received news that Lias would be DJing at The Social and this piece entirely…
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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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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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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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When this crisis started, when every live music event in the entire world was cancelled pretty much over night for…
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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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In a state of frenzied arrogance around 18 months ago I took it upon myself to hurl a few digital…
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Around the time I started writing these posts I also started writing a collection of personal essays about various periods…
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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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The biggest thing clouding my vision is my martyr complex. Even with all the bountiful fruits that life has delivered…
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Of all the weird and wonderful tales to have emerged in the last six weeks, my little brother deciding to…
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Certain aspects of my personal hygiene have taken a backseat in recent weeks, with nobody around who could possibly care,…
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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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Arthur Schopenhauer, it was reputed, would stick to a strict daily routine. He would reveille at 7am, drink a strong…
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THE SOCIAL GATHERING X WHITE RABBIT BOOKS AT THE SOCIAL The Social Gathering and White Rabbits Books join forces! Combining…
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With special guests Lias Saoudi, Anna Wood, Pete Fowler, Sophie Green + more The first in a new series of real…
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In the latest in a series of collaborative exchanges with Lias Saoudi of the band Fat White Family – which…