Blue Bendy: the south London post-punk pop band who fried Wire’s brains
The six-piece have shaken off the grotty post-punk associations of their scene to gleefully mix up inspirations that range from orchestral pop to industrial rock
August 2022
‘Sometimes they’d lick each other’: on the road with Fat White Family – in pictures
From duetting with Lady Gaga to liver-crippling drinking sessions, Duncan Stafford’s photographs take us on a tour with Britain’s wildest band
May 2022
Jarvis Cocker edits the Observer New Review
On my radar: Lias Saoudi’s cultural highlights
The Fat White Family frontman on sonically tripping to Sarah Davachi, rewatching Threads and a heroic history of poo in art
February 2022
Book of the day
Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure review – band on the brink
Chaos reigns through much of this bleak, funny and compelling biography of the cult indie band and their quest for success, stability – and affordable housing
April 2021
Fat White Family: ‘I can drop acid at 11am and cook a family dinner by 4pm’
Magic mushrooms and gigs in toilets – the creation of a new album for the raucous band is far from ordinary, as a new film shows
October 2020
The music essay
Idles v Fat White Family: what the indie showdown tells us about class
The two bands have variously clumsy and bracing things to say about class, race and Britain – but they are at least connecting to something bigger than themselves
May 2019
Fat White Family: 'Every one of us had a hard drug or drink problem'
They gained notoriety for their live shows, class war politics and debauchery. Why have the Peckham band swapped it all for health spas and flute solos?
April 2019
Fat White Family: Serfs up! review – a giant leap forward
(Domino)
February 2019
Kitty Empire's artist of the week
Fat White Family review – growing up disgracefully
The disreputable Brixton art rockers are touting their new album as a rebirth. It’s bound to be gory
February 2016
Fat White Family review – psycho-rock glam-stompers strip for action
Sounding like boozed-up Morricone, Fat White Family fulfil their reputation for outrage and could go far
The Guardian's Music Podcast
Fat White Family on outsider ballads - the Guardian Radio Hour podcast
Soap dodgers Saul and Lias from Fat White Family play us an hour of their favourite weird and woozy outsider ballads
The Guardian radio hour
The Guardian Radio Hour with Fat White Family - listen to the show
The latest in our 10-week live radio series on east London station NTS saw ramshackle rockers Fat White Family explore their love of outsider ballads
January 2016
Fat White Family: 'I hate that we row because I love him like a brother'
These ramshackle indie punkers are loved for refusing to toe the industry line. But could the band be about to fall apart?
Fat White Family: Songs for Our Mothers review – the modern Throbbing Gristle
The squat-rockers are at their best when least confrontational
Alexis Petridis's album of the week
Fat White Family: Songs for Our Mothers review – still testing the boundaries of taste
The group sticks to a lo-fi rock template on their sophomore album, yet tip their hats to Throbbing Gristle’s taboo busting – with mixed results
November 2015
The playlist
The playlist: indie – Younghusband, Fat White Family, Jeff Buckley and more
Today’s playlist includes a track from what will be the final School of Seven Bells album, and the late Jeff Buckley covering Sly and the Family Stone
February 2015
Listen up
Maxine Peake stalks the Fat White Family in Moonlandingz video
Taken from a new collaborative EP with the Fat Whites and Peake’s Eccentronic Research Council project, watch the psychedelic video and let us know your thoughts
January 2015
Fat White Family review – an engrossing primal squall from a gang of auteurs
The band deliver an engrossing performance, proving there’s more to their appeal than just masturbating on stage, writes Mark Beaumont
June 2014
Fat White Family at Glastonbury 2014 review – carefree caterwauling
Their devil-may-care attitude masks a talent for doom-laden rock'n'roll dirge-mongering, writes Lanre Bakare
May 2014
The Guardian-Muzu Sessions
The Fat White Family perform I Am Mark E Smith and Wild American Prairie
In the second of our new series of live performances, in asssociation
with Muzu.tv, here are two more tracks from the unhinged Fat White Family
