Faris Badwan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Faris Badwan | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Faris Adam Badwan |
| Also known as | Faris Rotter |
| Born | September 21, 1986 |
| Origin |  England |
| Genre(s) | Garage rock Surf Punk |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, Drums |
| Years active | 2005 – present |
| Label(s) | Loog Stolen Transmission |
| Associated acts | The Horrors, The Rotters |
Faris Badwan (formerly known as Faris Rotter) is an English musician, best known for being the lead vocalist for the English garage rock band The Horrors. His father is Palestinian and his mother is English. He is an avid Blackburn Rovers fan.
[edit] Early life
In 1999, Badwan obtained a scholarship to the exclusive public boarding school Rugby School, where he met Horrors bassist Tomethy Furse. Continuing his education, he went to London to study illustration at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2004, eventually deferring from his studies to concentrate on his musical career with the band. Whilst at college he also worked part-time for Velvet Illusion in Camden market, and with Joshua Hayward as a computer-games tester for EA games. His father was a neurosurgeon.
[edit] Musical career
Badwan is best known as vocalist for The Horrors, a garage punk band formed in Southend-on-Sea in 2005, and also featuring Joshua Hayward, Rhys 'Spider' Webb, Joseph Spurgeon, and Tomethy Furse. Badwan is notorious for his onstage activities, which have featured violence, black paint, scaling anything available, and using items found in the stage area to antagonise the audience. Faris once broke his nose when Joshua Third accidentally hit him with his guitar headstock.
Prior to forming The Horrors, Faris took part in a pseudo-punk band, The Rotters, named after the novel The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe. The band formed in a hurry after a club offered them a gig, and featured Badwan on drums, Dylan "Rotter" Wigoder on vocals, "Robot"/"Comedy" Jess "Rotter" Meek on bass guitar, and Emily "Rotter" Watson (later of London band Boys of Brazil) on guitar. Not in any way a serious drummer, Badwan took up the instrument, completely unable to keep a decent beat. The band have released one triple A-side single, "Japanese Punk", but have admitted they are not a serious outfit, wrote all their songs in a matter of hours and never practiced. The band are theoretically on hiatus rather than defunct, but a reunion seems unlikely.
In 2008, Faris also produced Hatcham Social's 7" single, "So So Happy Making", and is rumoured to be producing their forthcoming follow-up single. Faris is a sufferer of acute Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (refer to songs 'Count in Fives' and 'Gloves').
[edit] Artwork
Faris Badwan's artwork can be seen in issues of Vice Magazine, Up Music Magazine, and various other media outlets. It can also be found on the cover of Hatcham Social singles "How Soon Was Then?" (Popgrooves) and "Till The Dawn/Penelope (Under My Hat)" (Waks Records). It has been announced that Badwan would be publishing a book of illustrations in early 2008, although this has so far failed to materialise. His first art exhibition was presented the Bodhi Gallery in London's Brick Lane from October 12th-21st 2007[1].
Badwan has recently designed the artwork for The Charlatans' latest album "You Cross My Path".
|
||||||||||||||
