Goldie Lookin’ Chain, Manchester Moho Live

The GLC

March 10th, 2009

Back with a brand new album, ASBO4LIFE, the boys from South Wales are back and ready to continue their draw-fuelled party of jokes and banging tunes.

True to form, Manchester finds GLC in a riotous mood. The band takes to the stage just after 10pm, allowing time for the audience to become suitably sozzled in order for the revelry to commence. Bounding onto the stage to the opening strains of crowd-pleaser ‘Half Man-Half Machine’, the tone is set for the night, allied with a thumping sound system, and the GLC produce a raucous hour of new material mixed with old classics.

The energy of the band and the crowd combine to turn the venue into a sweat-laced setting, with the band reacting positively to the somewhat voracious nature of the Manchester audience. Nevertheless, the punters remain attentive whilst the band wheel out a hefty proportion of new material. Each new tunes goes down with more aplomb than the one before and the GLC are visibly encouraged by such a receptive crowd. The new single ‘By Any Means Necessary’ (out on Monday 16th March), is an obvious choice for the album lead-off and it proves its worthiness before long, featuring a ridiculous danceable hook. Ringmaster of the GLC, Xain, gets the crowd to fill in the vocal part of the woman featured on the single sparking a wild sing-a-long which stays etched in the mind of the listener even after the show has ended, “I need it, by any means necessary!”

Next up is ‘Everybody Is A DJ’, an ode to the modern ability of people using iPods to become a mobile disc-jockey at the flick of a switch. After the quite literal ‘under the counter’ performance of the Chain’s previous album, the new material on show tonight gives hope to those looking for a prolonged assault on the charts this time around. In their interview with Muso’s Guide, Eggsy claimed the band have material in the works for another two albums. If ASBO4LIFE is anything to go by, then we are all in for something special from these rap magnates from Newport. ‘New Day’ features the debut of the self-proclaimed ‘GLC Male Voice Choir’, a glimmer of which was perhaps first mooted on 2005’s ‘R’n’B’ but it could be said that it finds its feet properly here.

The avid Mancunian audience is eager for just about anything GLC can throw at them, so perhaps surprisingly it is a forthcoming b-side that is greeted with the most approval. ‘Corned Beef Kelly Osbourne’, which supports the aforementioned ‘By Any Means Necessary’, is a stomping track satirising the quirky subject matter of male self-pleasure, meat products and Ozzy’s beloved daughter. This is the GLC we know and love.
 
Their set is wound up with the arrival of some old classics including ‘Your Missus Is A Nutter’, ‘Soap Bar’ and ‘Your Mother’s Got A Penis’, each one being met with rowdier cheers than the one before. A notably exhausted (and horrendously sweaty) band exit the stage, matched only in their exertions by a crowd that is sent home happy by an act right at the peak of their live pinnacle. Let us hope that we can hope for a solid commercial performance from ASBO4LIFE, as the material and members surely deserve it. Our verdict? Safe as f*ck.

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