FAT WHITE FAMILY Announce First US Tour + Album Out on August 19th

[Chloe Walsh]

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First US Tour In October; Stream Performance From Glastonbury on the BBC

Releasing Champagne Holocaust in the US on August 19th via Fat Possum

“The most important band in Britain right now.”
Q Magazine


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Fat White Family made their debut on the stage of the world’s largest music festival last month. PRESS HERE<http://youtu.be/AUnZn6GwrFA> to watch them doing it for the kids on Glastonbury’s John Peel Stage, a performance that was beamed live into living rooms across the nation. It may be a decade or more before we know the full impact of this event on British musical history. For those geo-compatible the entire performance is streaming on the BBC iPlayer – PRESS HERE<http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p021jz60/glastonbury-2014-fat-white-family-on-the-john-peel-stage>. The band kick off their first full US tour – Tour of Tenderness - in October. All dates below.



Following a truly triumphant and entirely crowd-funded trip to SXSW earlier this year, followed by an energetic four night, sell out "tour" of New York City clubs a week later, London’s most notorious live act signed with Mississippi-based label Fat Possum who will release their already acclaimed debut album Champagne Holocaust on August 19th - with the US-only addition of brilliantly odd and affecting single "Touch The Leather". PRESS HERE<http://youtu.be/JcmV0G3HWxk> for the (NSFW) video.



"They take the faux-seediness of most rock & roll groups and run with it to throw back in our faces with music that's a strange fug of early Pink Floyd, The Fall, Bad Seeds, Country Teasers and The Monks."

The Quietus



Formed in the back of a Brixton pub, Fat White Family have been described as “Britain’s most depraved, volatile, and unpredictable band”, "the most exhilarating rock act in British music right now" and “genuinely, thrillingly, disturbing” by a stunned British music press. In January, they were awarded NME’s coveted 2014 Radar Award for Best New Band.



“Champagne Holocaust, marks them down as a brilliantly bilious rock'n'roll band, alive with scabrous wit and tension."

The Guardian



Champagne Holocaust - a mix of class war, surrealism, odes to auto sex and to sex in autos, calls for full scale insurrection, unabashed sleaze and grooves that will just not fucking let up – quickly became that old fashioned thing: a word-of-mouth success. So much so that the band were able to crowd-fund their very first trip to the USA for SXSW where they promptly blew the roof off every venue they stumbled across, prompting 2014's most-asked question of the entire convention: "Have you seen Fat White Family yet?!".



"Musically, Champagne Holocaust is a fantastic racket – a decrepit, squatty take on vintage American bands like The Cramps and The Gun Club. You also hear the abrasive directness of post-punk groups like The Fall and The Birthday Party and the band claim affection for both Charles Manson’s deranged recordings and the songs Serge Gainsbourg made with Jane Birkin. It’s an intoxicating stew."

The NME



Fat White Family are all in their early 20s. They are: Saul Adamczewski (guitar/backing vocals); Adam J Harmer (guitar/backing vocals); Dan Lyons (drums); Joe Pancucci (bass); Lias Saoudi (vocals); Nathan Saoudi (organ)


“The Fat Whites are raggedy yet totally kick-arse, renegade but charming, threatening yet also inclusive. But at heart, there is a real sense of brotherhood and community here, of six lads lashing out together, fighting for The Struggle and inviting you, intimately - through their music - to come on board and be part of The Family. I'm in.”
Huffington Post





You can run but you can’t hide:

10/15 Washington, D.C. @ Black Cat Backstage

10/16 Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle

10/18 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom

10/19 Boston, MA @ Great Scott

10/21 Montreal, QC @ Le Divan Orange

10/22 Toronto, ON @ The Hard Luck

10/23 Lakewood, OH @ Mahall's

10/24 Chicago, IL @ Schubas

10/25 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry

10/28 Denver, CO @ Lost Lake Lounge

10/29 Salt Lake City. UT @ Kilby Court

10/31 Portland, OR @ Bunk Bar

11/1 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey

11/3 San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop

11/4 Los Angeles, LA @ The Echo

11/7 Austin. TX @ Fun Fun Fun Festival



More reviews for Fat White Family's Champagne Holocaust:



"This is sordid music, unpleasant music, an irritant, and definitely not for everyone's tastes, or lack of it. But British indie music has been a sterile, un-confrontational, polite and clean-shaven place for years now, devoid of sex and funk (scent, as well as the more obvious musical sort).... Fat White Family are, then, a breath of fresh air."

The Quietus



“Despite the inevitable incidents of chaos, blood, nudity and weirdness that seem to have plagued/fueled this first year of their mission, they are still the band that everyone in London wants to see."

Rhythm & Booze


“One of the creepiest songs of recent years, the Manson Family obsessives mix elements of The Fall with stripped-back country balladeering.”
The Independent

"Champagne Holocaust is an assault of warped fantasies, weirdo blues, guttural garage and drug-addled deviance"
The Fly

“If you haven't delved into the lurid world of the Fat Whites, they occupy similar seedy territory as Birthday Party, The Fall or Clinic or Beggars Banquet-era Stones: moody garage rock with lyrical tales straight out of an Irvine Welsh novel.”
Brooklyn Vegan



"A glorious, glorious mess."

Crack Magazine



“It’s fun, but it’s certainly not clean”

Q Magazine



"'Touch the Leather' is a master class in sleazy, hip-grinding seduction."

British GQ



"From the opening psychedelic licks of “Auto Neutron”, The Fam’s bluesy, disinterested punk shimmies beneath the skin. You can almost hear the down-heel boots clomping along to the beat on the dirty bar floor, struggling against that moment when they know they must leave their ass-warmed chairs and head back into the hateful sunlight."

Electronic Beats


Pre-order Champagne Holocaust here: http://fatpossum.com/products/champagne-holocaust


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For more information on the Fat Whites contact: Chloe Walsh (chloe at PressHerePublicity.com<mailto:chloe at PressHerePublicity.com>) or Carina Contreras (carina at PressHerePublicity.com<mailto:carina at PressHerePublicity.com>) 212 246 2640

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