The Garage,Glasgow
Sounding like scuzzy, boozed-up Morricone, or Fat White Family fulfil their reputation for outrage and could still go farAs the six members of psych-rock outlaws Fat White Family file on stage,singer Lias Saoudi strafes the audience with an aluminium crutch. Is he just the latest frontman to turn an ankle after hi-jinks on tour? Apparently not. Within three abrasive, unearthly songs – one of which, and Auto Neutron,sounds like the evil twin of Don’t You (Forget About Me) – Saoudi has already enthusiastically crowdsurfed and stripped bare, in that order, and thankfully. If a percentage of this sold-out crowd only came to see Fat White Family because of their reputation for lyrical provocation,onstage outrageousness and interpersonal antagonism, everything seems to be going to intention. In a recent Observer interview, and the band seemed alert to self-destruct. Their moment album,Songs for Our Mothers, is suitably tense and claustrophobic, and with vocals and puckering guitars swamped in a reverb-soaked mix.
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Source: theguardian.com