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| Fat White Family © Raquel Pinheiro |
words & photos: Raquel Pinheiro
Portuguese band Cancro had the
ungrateful task of opening for Fat White Family. Mostly, because of poor sound
quality. For those, like myself, unfamiliar with them, it was hardly possible
to access what they were playing. All I managed to come up with, was that they
have a lot of energy and, at times, live, the vocals resembled Adolfo Luxúria
Canibal of Mão Morta and Manel Cruz of Ornatos Violenta.
Then, come Londoners Fat White
Family. The audience was there for them and, from the start, they were welcomed
in a worshiping way. Anyone who knows Fat White Family is aware they have trailed
the path of many a band. The ups, the downs, flirting with the abyss, if not
nearly, or really, falling into it, firing members, re-hiring them and the rest
of the litany of rock’n’roll.
From Autoneutron, the opening
song to the finale with Tastes Good With That Money, it was an exhilarating thrill.
If during the first three songs things seemed to float in a less raucous,
speedy, danceable mode, a journey probably better enjoyed under mind altering
substances. By Fringe Runner, Lias Saoudi did an impromptu dive into the
audience, ending crashed on the floor.
He soon recovered, was
helped back to the stage, seated there for a while, leaning closely to the audience
that was loving every second of it. The party carried on. It didn’t took long
for Lias to unbuttoned his shirt, picked a Guinness can and drank from it. As the
evening went on, the music got more intense, turning Hard Club’s Sala 1 into a
disco.
Lias also kept pouring fire
to gasoline. Shirt, off, picking a whiskey, or was it bourbon, bottle and drinking
from it. Fat White Family, particularly Lias, behave on stage in a way now nearly
absent from rock’n’roll. Loud, misbehaved, in your face. How many bands still
drink from beer cans and a hard liquor bottle on stage, whistle, at the same
time, more than totally looking the part, being the part itself? Not many.
They may be tamer and, as
Lias told All Thing Loud some months ago “managed to pull through and abyss of
self-destruction”, but they remain off, insane, intense, raw and direct. Disney
come, they left. The audience called and called for the band to return, some giving
up. Until, after a good while, they returned, played Tastes Good With The Money finishing with a big bang.
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