For years Lias Saoudi dei Fat White Family he’s angry with them IDLES, especially with Joe Talbot. Four years ago he explained his reasons in a long letter, a point of view also recently reiterated in an interview.
The frontman’s new opportunity for confrontation and mockery came at Glastonbury, a festival that featured both bands on the bill, albeit on different days, NME reports. From the Woodsies stage, on June 29, in a provocative topless outfit and flesh-colored leggings, Saoudi both responded to the anti-monarchist chant sung by Talbot the previous day (to his “Fuck the King!” he responded with a “God save the King! Fuck off”) and, more explicitly, introduced one of their songs by bringing him into the mix.
“This song is about my feminist zeal, it’s called ‘I Am Joe Talbot,’” she said before the 2014 single hit I Am Mark E Smith.
For Lias Saoudi, Talbot and his band do nothing but propagate a woke culture made of sharp guitars, working class accents (borrowed from the working class) and paternalism. The fact that bands like this exist for him is equivalent to the end of an era: “woke”, in his opinion, is the opposite of being r’n’r.
Still at Glastonbury, unbeknownst to IDLES who were performing at the time with Danny Nedelko June 28th, Banksy he made it spin over the heads of the audience like a crowd surfing a dinghy in reference to the migrants who try to cross the Mediterranean Sea and the English Channel every day.
