SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE
''The story of a band that''s always on the brink: of stardom, of madness, of brilliance, of disgrace'' Miranda Sawyer, Observer
''You begin to wonder why more biographies aren''t tackled with such invention'' Record Collector
''This book is a rarity'' Mark Lanegan
''One of the finest music books in aeons'' Kevin Barry
From the mountains of Algeria to the squats of South London via sectarian Northern Ireland, Ten Thousand Apologies is the sordid and thrilling story of the country''s most notorious cult band, Fat White Family. Loved and loathed in equal measure since their formation in 2011, the relentlessly provocative, stunningly dysfunctional "drug band with a rock problem" have dedicated themselves to constant chaos and total creative freedom at all costs.
Like a tragicomic penny dreadful dreamed up by a mutant hybrid of Jean Genet, the Dadaists and
