Fats White Household’s Lias Saoudi laid into IDLES’ Joe Talbot throughout a riotous set at Glastonbury‘s Woodsies stage as we speak (June 29).
Saoudi, sporting pores and skin colored mesh tights, poked enjoyable at IDLES’ set on the Different stage final evening (June 28), throughout which Talbot led a chant of “Fuck the King!” and inadvertently took half in a Banksy-assisted protest.
Earlier than a rendition of ‘I Am Mark E Smith’, Saodui dryly introduced: “This can be a music about my feminist zeal – it’s known as ‘I’m Joe Talbot’”, and later acknowledged the chants at IDLES set by saying: “God save the King! Fuck off”.
It’s not the primary time the bands have come to blows. Again in April, the Fats White Household frontman accused them of “grandstanding on that woke ticket”.
FAT WHITE FAMILY
また変なバンド見に来ちゃった。
サイコーなサイコ pic.twitter.com/uoakqHIsaS— d（asa） (@mosh_mushroom) June 29, 2024
In a dialog with The Unbiased, he mentioned on the time: “I don’t thoughts bands being boring or no matter, honest sufficient, however once you’re grandstanding on that woke ticket I simply discover that anathema to what rock n’ roll actually is, which is the reprobates. That is freak nation. We don’t convey that type of factor in right here.”
Sleaford Mods‘ Jason Williamson has additionally beforehand weighed in, and accused IDLES of “appropriating a working class voice”.
Saodui once more took a swipe following these feedback, backing Williamson by saying: “The very last thing our more and more puritanical tradition wants proper now’s a bunch of self neutering center class boobs telling us to be good to immigrants; you may name that artwork, I name it sententious pedantry.”
Throughout IDLES’ set final evening, Talbot defined ‘Danny Nedelko’ was “a celebration of the bravery and the laborious work of the immigrants who constructed our nation,” and a pretend life-raft bearing life jacket carrying dummies labored it’s manner via the group.
Though it’s now emerged that the migrant boat float was a Banksy piece the band had been unaware of, the politically charged tone of their set drew extremely diversified reactions.
daily idles wakes up and proves that bloke from fats white household proper
— spud (@spudbracketspud) June 29, 2024
The Every day Mail is gonna have an aneurysm about this Idles set, they received the group to shout “fuck the king” known as Farage a fascist, had a prop of youngsters in a small boat crowdsurfing throughout a professional immigration music and ended by shouting ceasefire now. Fucking legends. #Glastonbury pic.twitter.com/qsSUCmNwhB
— Supertanskiii (@supertanskiii) June 28, 2024
I can not fucking stand idles. Each single factor they just do reeks of making an attempt too laborious to be completely different
— george (@gmbarnard22) June 29, 2024
In a four-star assessment, NME wrote: “[Talbot] repeatedly pronounces “Viva Palestina!”, incites a crowd to bellow “Fuck the King!” and calls for a circle pit so large it makes “the entire fucking area spin”. He virtually will get his want.”
