Fat White Family have announced they will be heading out on tour in May this year, across several dates in England.
Announcing the news on Instagram, the band wrote: “We are thrilled to announce that, in the wake of a quite frankly astonishing response to our recent film ‘Moonbathing in February’, we will soon be hitting the road to perform some of the new material debuted within. The shows will be intimate, sat down affairs due to social distancing. Tickets will thus be extremely limited.”
The rock band will be performing from 17 May 2021 to 22 May 2021. Kicking off their socially distanced tour at The Lexington London, they will be playing five dates across England. The tour is entitled ‘Moonbathing in February’ in support of their film, which streamed last week (2 April 2021.)
Speaking about their film ‘Moonbathing in February,’ with Vice, Fat White Family frontman Lias said: “We thought we’d just make a little cowboy movie instead of live streaming a gig, which I guess is what Moonbathing in February amounts to. It’s a no budget, DIY portrait of that stage of the album-making process where you’re just throwing shit at the wall until something sticks. [It’s] an exploration of ancient Hastings and an attempt to work out what, if anything, it means to be in a band at this abysmal juncture in music history.”
The film was only available for 24 hours, but the band plan to do a second streaming on 13 May 2021 for those who buy tour tickets. Writing about the stream on Instagram, the band said: “A lot of people – several at least – have been asking me what this new film is actually about, if I could maybe be a little more specific about it before they part with their fivers. Let me be quite clear then: this film is about lust. Moonbathing in February is out this Friday, available for only 24 hours, after which it will be ceremonially uploaded to our managers hard drive and forgotten about forever.”
Lead singer Soudi recently revealed his go-to lockdown songs; in an interview with Vice, he said: “My lockdown consisted of mainly two songs: Leonard Cohen’s “Closing Time” and Bob Dylan’s “Jokerman”. The production on both is kind of disgusting in lots of ways, kind of gloriously pathetic, which seemed more than apt given the world we were then waking up to; a kind of flaccid apocalypse.”
Formed in Peckham back in 2011, the South London band have been hailed for their propensity to wade into class-war politics with their lyrics. They released their first single ‘Cream of the Young’, in March 2013 and released their debut album ‘Champagne Holocaust’ later that year. They have since released two further studio albums, ‘Songs for Our Mothers’ in 2016 and ‘Serfs Up’ in 2019.
England Tour Dates
17/05/21 – The Lexington – London
18/05 – De La Warr Pavillion – Bexhill
19/05 – Chalk – Brighton
21/05 – Brudenell Social Club – Leeds
22/05 – YES – Manchester
Tickets go on sale 9 April 2021 here.
