Goldie Lookin Chain
What of GLC?
Well, they’re a distinctly bad-ass, Welsh collective that specialise in a multitude of infectious rap-pop-hop odes to pedestrian living in the 21st Century. They can be described as a variety of things – chavs, townies, clarts, kevs; all are relevant.
They wear tracksuits, have catchphrases (‘You knows it!’, ‘Safe as f**k!’, etc.) conjure funny hand-gestures, dance like pricks, and make music that’ll send your jaw racing with agonising laughter while your hips attempt to keep up. They’ve become a cult in their native Newport, Wales, where their urban rhymes/grimes were enough to send the Super Furry Animals and The Darkness doo-lalley, both inviting the literally massiiiive collective on UK tours, whilst their online-clips of material gave global audiences a free downloadable demonstration of their infectious product.
Now signed to East-West, putting them in the lofty climes of the ‘big league’, a debut-single ‘Half Man Half Machine’ managed to scrape the top-40 despite little promotion back in Spring 2004, while an impending, testimonial ‘Guns Don’t Kill People, Rappers Do’ is expected to be a f**king uber-hit. Their album ‘Greatest Hits’ is out later this year. Our favourite GLC number? Their staple set-closer, ‘Your Mother’s Got A Penis’. Yes, kids will love them.
OFFICIAL SITE: To be found either via youknowsit.co.uk or goldielookinchain.com, on the group’s main site you can email the band directly via a suspiciously personal Hotmail account, and just laugh at the knowing shabbiness presented to us from the Newport combo. There’s also a truck-load of mp3s up for grabs and a stellar ‘top trumps’ collection profiling each idiosyncratic member of the multi-unit.
HOW TO ROLL A SPLIFF: Obviously, we at rockfeedback don’t condone the indulgence of potentially harmful substances – but that’s not to say that GLC don’t; their smoke-infested tales of stoned debauchery are shameless. Bless/condemn them for it.
VIDEO: As follows, links for the band\'s second single, \'Guns Don\'t Kill People, Rappers Do\' (dirty version) - (WINDOWS MEDIA) LO-RES / HI-RES(REAL VIDEO) LO-RES / HI-RES
TOUR DATES 2004: And, as follows once more, the full UK tour schedule from Wales’ latest sensations in October:
Cardiff University (2nd)
Reading University (3)
Oxford Brookes University (4)
Norwich Waterfront (6)
Newcastle University (7)
Aberdeen Lemon Tree (8)
Glasgow Garage (9)
Nottingham Rock City (11)
Liverpool Carling Academy (12)
Bangor University (13)
Manchester MDH (15)
Leeds Metropolitan University (16)
Birmingham Carling Academy (17)
Bristol Carling Academy (19)
Exeter Lemon Grove (20)
Portsmouth Pyramids (21)
London Astoria (22)