Review: It's a massive laugh, innit?

FORMING one of the most motley collections of leisurewear ever assembled in one place, cartoonish Welsh hip-hoppers Goldie Looking Chain, pictured above, stormed the stage at the Pyramid Centre.

A more unlikely looking bunch of wannabe rap stars is hard to imagine, but you can't fault them for energy.

With as many as 11 of the Newport massive crowding on stage - all energetic arm-waving and mugging for the crowd - they looked like some unlikely wheezy boy band.

GLC core members, including Love Eggs, Maggot and Adam Hussein, took it in turns to rhyme about their deep love of all things marijuana. Often ludicrous, occasionally excellent, the clear high point of a booming set was the single Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do.

They're a likeable bunch but you get the feeling this is as good as it's ever going to get for the GLC, whose brand of good-natured, drug-inspired nonsense is a bit of a one trick pony.

Loud and proudly idiotic, this is one GLC Ken Livingstone wouldn't have approved of.

But then, as GLC themselves would tell you, it's not about politics, it's about leisurewear. You knows it.