Album artwork for Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family And The Miracle Of Failure by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi
Album artwork for Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family And The Miracle Of Failure by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi
Album artwork for Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family And The Miracle Of Failure by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi
Album artwork for Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family And The Miracle Of Failure by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi
Album artwork for Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family And The Miracle Of Failure by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi
Album artwork for Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family And The Miracle Of Failure by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi
Album artwork for Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family And The Miracle Of Failure by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi
Album artwork for Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family And The Miracle Of Failure by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi

Rough Trade Books Of The Year: #13

From the mountains of Algeria to the squats of South London via sectarian Northern Ireland, Ten Thousand Apologies is the sordid and thrilling story of the country's most notorious rock band, Fat White Family. Loved and loathed in equal measure since their formation in 2011, the relentlessly provocative, stunningly dysfunctional "drug band with a rock problem" have dedicated themselves to constant chaos and total creative freedom at all costs.

Like a tragicomic penny dreadful dreamed up by a mutant hybrid of Jean Genet, the Dadaists and Mark E. Smith, the Fat Whites' story is a frequently jaw-dropping epic of creative insurrection, narcotic excess, mental illness, wanderlust, self-sabotage, fractured masculinity, and the ruthless pursuit of absolute art.

Co-written with lucidity and humour by singer Lias Saoudi and acclaimed author Adelle Stripe, Ten Thousand Apologies is that rare thing: a music book that barely features any music, a biography as literary as any novel, and a confessional that does not seek forgiveness. This is the definitive account of Fat White Family's disgraceful and radiant jihad – a depraved, romantic and furious gesture of refusal to a sanitised era.

Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi

Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family And The Miracle Of Failure

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£10.99

Released 23/02/2023Catalogue Number

9781474617857

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Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi

Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family And The Miracle Of Failure

White Rabbit
Album artwork for Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family And The Miracle Of Failure by Adelle Stripe and Lias Saoudi
Paperback

£10.99

Released 23/02/2023Catalogue Number

9781474617857

Learn more

Rough Trade Books Of The Year: #13

From the mountains of Algeria to the squats of South London via sectarian Northern Ireland, Ten Thousand Apologies is the sordid and thrilling story of the country's most notorious rock band, Fat White Family. Loved and loathed in equal measure since their formation in 2011, the relentlessly provocative, stunningly dysfunctional "drug band with a rock problem" have dedicated themselves to constant chaos and total creative freedom at all costs.

Like a tragicomic penny dreadful dreamed up by a mutant hybrid of Jean Genet, the Dadaists and Mark E. Smith, the Fat Whites' story is a frequently jaw-dropping epic of creative insurrection, narcotic excess, mental illness, wanderlust, self-sabotage, fractured masculinity, and the ruthless pursuit of absolute art.

Co-written with lucidity and humour by singer Lias Saoudi and acclaimed author Adelle Stripe, Ten Thousand Apologies is that rare thing: a music book that barely features any music, a biography as literary as any novel, and a confessional that does not seek forgiveness. This is the definitive account of Fat White Family's disgraceful and radiant jihad – a depraved, romantic and furious gesture of refusal to a sanitised era.