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Live Review: BIGSOUND Live: The Bennies

Steve Bell

"This music industry is shit - where's the cocaine?"

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Ending with a banger.

Crazed southern party starters The Bennies draw a medium but courageously committed crowd, and it becomes a bit of a running competition to see if there is more mayhem happening onstage or off.

There's stoned ska, there's rock, bursts of punk and laughs aplenty, frontman attesting, "We're drunk as you can get. This music industry is shit - where's the cocaine?" Then after a quick joke quips, "This song's about smoking weed" and they bust into a sublime-sounding number that's indeed as serene as a good choof.

BIGSOUND has definitely proved a party facilitator in 2014 !