Fat White Family: Pictures for Our Mothers
UK punk band Fat White Family are the last of a dying breed; a rock n’ roll group so loud, vulgar and iconoclastic they cannot be ignored. They’ve soiled the stages of Glastonbury and sullied the airwaves of the late David Letterman Show. They’ve played dumps, dives and shitholes the world over and they’ve done it with searing wit, putrescent style and the fatalistic passion of heretic soldiers on a suicide mission.
Photographs on the road, backstage and dynamic gig shots. Raw, real and funny. USA images by Andrew Zappin; UK images by Duncan Stafford.
“This book made me wanna go on a yoga retreat.”
“I LOVE these photos!!! Every picture tells a story, don’t it? They recall the memories I have of hanging out with those Fat Whites, and every one is fond.”
“As a mother myself, I would like to bend these bad, bad boys over my knee and give them all a well-deserved spanking.”
“Some wiseguy once said that a photograph is worth a couple of dozen sentences and there’s not enough adjectives to describe what’s going on in this book........AND THAT’S A GREAT SCENARIO! These pics are TOTALLY bitchen’!”
“Duncan and Andrew’s punk journey picture-book hits like every Fat White Family show I’ve been to — a warm, sticky, and welcome embrace.”
“The book starts with photographs of rippling, angular guitar shots, bare chests, and bizarre colors that fill the pages with images screaming, stirring unbridled crazy sound. But, it is in part two where it seems the road takes its toll with photographs in grim bars, deadbeat motels and sensitive portraits unfurling reflection between gigs.The book’s flow brings the viewer into a rattling, wild profoundness that recalls the Chelsea Hotel mob shows of the 1970’s.”