Fat White Family have gone their separate ways after 13 years (Picture: Valerio Berdini/REX/Shutterstock)
Despite releasing new music and having a UK tour coming up, rock band Fat White Family have gone their separate ways.
First formed in 2011, the indie band gained popularity for the song Whitest Boy on the Beach which featured over the closing credits of T2 Trainspotting.
However, frontman Lias Saoudi has revealed he is no longer working with the rest of the band; including his own brother Nathan.
The original lineup consisted of Lias, Nathan, Saul Adamczewski, Joe Pancucci, Dan Lyons, and Adam Harmer but this has changed drastically over the years.
Only the frontman has been involved in promoting their fourth album, Forgiveness is Yours, and he confessed there has been a ‘complete breakdown’ in the six-piece band.
‘I’m doing it all on my own this time which has been a new thing,’ Lias revealed. ‘It’s been alright, I try to not repeat myself too often.’
Frontman Lias Saoudi says the relationship is irreparable (Picture: Diogo Baptista/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock)
Lias performed with brother Nathan and four more musicians (Picture: Joseph Okpako/WireImage)
He continued to The New Cue on Substack: ‘There’s been a complete breakdown in that kind of original triumvirate of me, Nathan and Saul. That’s just completely broken down now.
‘It broke down a long time ago with Saul, we resuscitated it for a bit, and then it broke down again, and then we resuscitated again, and now it’s absolutely dead in the water. There’s no love lost there anymore.’
Similarly, the musician told The Independent: ‘The band has always been a revolving door of members and contributors and a kind of Rubik’s Cube of feuding components.
‘I think we’re at a point where there needs to be some cool-out. Sometimes you just have to have distance for a while before you can make things work.’
It’s unclear when exactly this breakdown happened, with the band still using a group photo on their social media.
Lias believes there is no way to reconcile the differences between the Peckham-based group.
He described conflict with Saul as ‘eating glass’ and being perpetually at loggerheads despite their decade-long working relationship.
While this ego clash ran the group into the ground, they were determined to finish the album – with or without a full team.
He claims he was constantly at odds with Saul Adamczewski (Picture: Valerio Berdini/REX/Shutterstock)
Fat White Family is set to go on tour next month (Picture: Diogo Baptista/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock)
‘I just think you have to finish, though,’ he declared to the newsletter. ‘You lose a member, you lose another member, you just have to finish. I think like that with projects generally.
‘You can’t just flounce out on your own elaborate psychodrama that you’ve concocted. This is what you signed up for.
‘But here we are. It doesn’t make it any less egregious.’
Even though the band is no more Fat White Family is set to tour Europe and the UK in May and June.
Metro.co.uk has reached out to Fat White Family for comment.
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