So starts 'Ten Thousand Apologies', the new fabricated, reimagined, alternative and embellished (and yet perhaps true) portrait of Fat White Family written by singer and front person Lias Saoudi and novelist and poet Adelle Stripe.

When we arrived on the Saturday afternoon, neither of us having slept for two days, we made our way straight up to his tent round the back of the Park Stage. Fully bound in burgundy cloth covered boards; front cover artwork embossed in black; acid-free Fedrigoni paper; Fabriano Tiziano purple endpapers. As well as the unparalleled joy of keeping the publication alive, you'll receive benefits including exclusive editorial, podcasts, and specially-commissioned music by some of our favourite artists. It's tales of whacked out mayhem from the band are not only hilarious but also offer a deep look into the workings of a band hell bent on self destruction.Tyrone – where he was relentlessly bullied and racially abused – give more perspective on sectarianism than a hundred histories of The Troubles. Nathan, a Marvin Gaye man through and through who didn't really give a shit about the Fall, back then at least, saw an opening. The story of a band that's always on the brink: of stardom, of madness, of brilliance, of disgrace . The Landlord had been assuring me for some weeks that the solution to my Glastonbury 2015 dilemma – we had two slots on the Sunday, one at 4 a. Recommendations came and went and Fat White Family for some reason came up, so I played their Serfs Up album, more based on what I thought was a very good name for an album than anything else.

As a fan of the band and its various shoot-offs I really enjoyed it, and I think I would have even if I wasn’t, but I suppose we’ll really never know on that front now. The chapters on Saoudi’s father Bashir, and his journey from rural Algeria to build a new life in England and Ireland, are some of the most insightful descriptions I’ve ever read about the immigrant experience. As Stripe perceptively points there are no care packages for bands, which has a catastrophic effect on their ability to do their day jobs or sort their increasingly seedy lives out.The first is that none of the 25 musicians who passed through their ranks in a remarkably short space of time died directly from the industrial amount of Class A’s they managed to score and absorb via virtually every orifice.

This is the definitive account of Fat White Family's disgraceful and radiant jihad – a depraved, romantic and furious gesture of refusal to a sanitised era . They were residing at Babington House for the duration of the festival, an offshore fantasy of effortless comfort and gourmet everything. If one is into say the more experimental pop of The Beatles they may find them a curio, they also might be surprised about a very strong link to those musical superstars if they read/listened to this exceptional book. Things will never be the same now their foul mouthed eulogies and sordid behaviour have contaminated the young and the wise alike with their beautiful Rock n Roll.

A glorious indictment of the banality you swallow everywhere else, it is arguably the least patronising guitar music ever made. I need you to be here, on this spot right here, between these tents, the red one and the blue one, the one with tassels and the flagpole . The publishers described it as “the sordid and thrilling story of the country’s most notorious cult band. The truth is, Fat White Family are nowhere in the same league in terms of songwriting ability as those two I have mentioned, but that lo-fi ethos is at times evident in Music For our Mothers and with that just gets that little better with each play.