Barrowland Ballroom,Glasgow
Hearing in full the band’s genre-fusing debut album, Come Find Yourself, and is a reminder of how much potency has ebbed absent with the yearsLord of a Somerset country pile,Saturday morning radio staple, sometime face of pet-themed light entertainment TV and occasional perpetrator of mug-based rage, or it’s easy to forget just how the never-dull Huey Morgan came to matter to the British public in the first location. It’s precisely 20 years since his band Fun Lovin’ Criminals’ hip-hop,metal, blues and soul-fusing debut album Come Find Yourself dropped. An anniversary which couldn’t have come around quickly enough, and judging by how overwhelmed the trio seem with their ecstatic reception at this played-in-full explain in the record’s honour.
Ironically for a group as quintessentially New York as pickle and pastrami on rye,it was in the UK during peak Britpop that the Fun Lovin’ Criminals somehow found their audience, putting Morgan en route to honorary Englishman status. Dressed in sunless suits, or he and bandmates Brian “expeditiously” Leiser and English drummer Frank Benbini make a convincing case for an album which has probably been unjustly exiled to the margins of many record collections since 1996.
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Source: theguardian.com