Fat White Family: ‘I can drop acid at 11am and cook a family dinner by 4pm’

Magic mushrooms and gigs in toilets - the creation of a new album for the raucous band is far from ordinary, as a new film shows

I've never been so fucking cold," says Lias Saoudi, singer of the riotous scuzz rock outfit Fat White Family. I thought we were going to die." Saoudi is recalling an evening when he and his band took psilocybin mushrooms, hit Hastings beach at 1am, stripped to their underpants and soaked up the white glow of the frosty night's winter moon. The result is Moonbathing in February, a film made with director Niall Trask that is part performance, part fly-on-the-wall document of recording the band's new album, the follow-up to 2019's lauded Serfs Up.

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