After Hours at the Burgundy Room Podcast's video: Lias Saoudi - After Hours at the Burgundy Room Episode 3

Lias Saoudi, lead singer of the English rock band Fat White Family, has been described as a drink and drug-wracked nihilist degenerate, not to mention an enthusiast of onstage nudity, Nazi history, and animal carcasses. A self-professed humanitarian, Lias rejects the nihilist label, but he’s got no problem talking drugs, art, politics, fascism, classism, gentrification, yuppification, or anything else you want to throw his way. His band’s the most exciting thing to come out of the U.K. in years, and Lias's voice is surely one of the most compelling. So sit back, turn off the lights, and enjoy this After Hours conversation with the inimitable Lias Saoudi. “I think our music is steeped in vicious sarcasm and irony and classic British repression, and I’m not sure if everybody in the American music listening public cottons on to those things quite so easily as they do over there.” —Lias Saoudi Lias Saoudi Discusses: 00:01 - Lias on drugs 01:41 - The perils of touring in America 05:14 - Upcoming Fat White Family shows 05:57 - American crowds 07:31 - Growing up in Ireland and Scotland 09:06 - Becoming a songwriter 10:02 - Lias’s relationship with Saul Adamczewski 10:50 - Favorite Fat White Family song he’s written 11:41 - The enemy of art 14:06 - The birth of Fat White Family 15:55 - The Queens Head Pub 16:22 - Recording the first Fat White Family album 17:13 - Playing in Paris on the night of the terrorist attacks 18:24 - Being politically outspoken 19:10 - The gentrification of London 19:51 - The U.S. presidential race 20:20 - Sex, drugs and rock n roll 26:21 - Latest Fat White Family album 27:37 - Playing live vs. the recording studio 28:25 - What’s next? Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/2mkUvMW SUBSCRIBE iTunes: http://apple.co/2lvvU7l Stitcher: http://bit.ly/2l3NOwH Google Play: http://bit.ly/2kQFVQ2 CONNECT Official Site: http://www.afterhourspodcast.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/afterhourspodcast Twitter: http://twitter.com/afterhours_pod Instagram: http://instagram.com/afterhourspodcast