This is brilliant! We’re the band Benji mentions and are doing the Nobody TikTok dance in my backyard! Benji and Skindred have been super supportive of us (a small rap metal groove band from Leeds!!) Honoured to have a teeny part of this video!
I'm convinced part of the contract for bbc breakfast reporters is they must live in some kind of entirely beige bourgeois compound, where there's no risk of them coming into contact with any vaguely interesting cultural content. They react like this to anything and everything, apart from bland stuff that's self manufactured by the BBC. 😂
@@ZuzuTheLemonNo, no hope for BBC at all. As Naom Chomsky pointed out famously in '96, BBC tell folk what to think and are very limiting on what they consider facts or/& information. Mainstream, neoclassical voodoo economics is the stuff BBC is tasked to perpetuate - even when Bank of England was forced (back in '14) to tell some truth, that BBC et al refused to report! Notice how BBC has former Bankers as Chair!!!!
I came across Skindred for the first time at Beautiful Days this year. They had stepped in at very short notice when the Proclaimers had to cancel. They were nothing short of amazing! Really entertaining, great showmanship, great musicianship and a great sense of humour! Despite the fact that they had only a couple of days notice their show was impeccably planned and delivered and included their own unique take on '500 miles' ❤
You are lucky, my small town has a bit of a musical event each year or two and Sophie Ellis Bexter replaced the proclaimers. Skindred would have been brilliant.
Saw them about 5 years ago at a small rock festival in Wales. It was late, wet and for some reason most of the crowd had gone to bed, leaving Skindred with around 200 people max to perform for - yet they absolutely kicked ass. If you can go from performing in front of tens of thousands at Download and bring that same energy wherever you go, you're a great band imo.
Seen them at DL numerous times with an audience of thousands, and then saw them at the local rock pub too, in a packed little room, with about 300 people. Both iterations are always amazing and they put 100% into it. That's one of the reasons they're so loved in the UK metal scene. The music is great, the performance is always amazing, the guys are normal and so down to earth you'll usually find them wandering around after a show.
I was at my uncle's wedding in July. He's 53, a black British, long-dreaded DJ who loves Reggae and Metal and has DJ'd for 35 years. I said we should go see Skindred the next time they play cos they've been one of my most fave bands since I first saw them in 2003. He didn't have a clue who I was talking about. How abyssmally sad is that, when someone who plays reggae and metal for a living, and is British, doesn't know them? So I'm glad they're getting a little more exposure - though I'm not sure Morning TV is the best place for them... They need to soundtrack a Christmas ad :D
Not one for me, but I’m glad they’re achieving this success and recognition. 🥰 Mike & Benji seem like absolutely lovely guys. Something about Benji makes me want to give him a hug, he just seems so cuddly! 🥰 But then again most metal heads do 😅😂🥰
The whole band are nice people, I’ve known them for many years now and there was a time when you couldn’t go into Newport without bumping into Benji and he’d always take time to have a chat. They always used to play a small club called TJs in Newport and that was a great venue for them, small, loud, cheap and sweaty. Hey played some awesome shows there.
@@paulrhyslloyd1TJs! Oh my goodness. I got kicked in the chin in the pit there once by someone jumping off a speaker. Such a fun place. Thanks for the memory jog haven't thought about that place in years!
@@JoGivens it’s sadly no longer there, John the owner, had quite a bit of debt on the club to the point where he was thinking of selling off his memorabilia so after he died his family sold it. It was in a terrible state towards he end and I always said hat if I had ever won the lottery I’d have paid to have had it fixed up to a decent state.
@@kevinwilson455 Quilombo and Prejudice. However his role on Quilombo got cut down a lot from the original version - which was known as Blow Away and the rough mix of it finally got released in reissues of the album which gave him more verses.
They're one of mine and my son's favourite bands (that list topped by the Darkness, obviously!). He was 11 when we went to Maid of Stone over the summer and they did a signing. They couldn't have been nicer to him! I could barely speak I was so star-struck! Just great. Then we got to the barrier and he did his first Newport Helicopter! He couldn't have been happier that day. Smile has been on repeat ever since. Over the years, I've introduced loads of my friends to them (since a friend introduced me to them back in 2010?) and I haven't had anyone that's seen them live not come away loving them (ok, there was somebody at Download this year, but she was just upset that 5FDP had cancelled). I've always felt they should be higher up the bill than they usually are (mid to late afternoon) so a 2nd stage headline was well deserved in my eyes.
Skindred were one of those bands I knew the name of, but never heard their stuff. That little bit off the tik tok videos reminds of a band called King Prawn that I used to see in Bedford all the time.
I’ve met Mike, he’s a really nice guy. He showed me how to play one of the riffs from nobody when I went to a guitar summer school in Brighton in 2010.
Oh yeah I remember Skindred! Me and my buddies loved listening to their tunes. We loved both reggae and ska, and having a band doing this mix with metal was just awesome. Greetings from Venezuela
Congrats on hitting 477k subscribers! Goes to show how clueless the 2 hosts are, though in their ignorance they 'try' lol. How silly- congrats to Skindred for getting more mileage out of an older song! It's really catchy
An incredible achievement and well deserved and now they've announced a headline show at Wembley. What a night that will be. BBC Breakfast do this with every genre, do they not have any researchers these days that can at least give the impression they know what they're on about.
Skindred are amazing. Met Benji at a gig in Cardiff once, he was lovely. Apparently my uncle used to jam with them years ago and they shared a couple of gigs in Narberth, I'm so proud 😁
They performed in my home town at a really small venue only afew years ago, and Benji was definitely larger than life. They were fucking amazing live, and i wish I'd seen them live sooner, as first heard them from the Need for Speed games. Glad to see them getting even more coverage!
Benji is such a legend, we were hanging out the week after the latest album dropped, he was only supposed to drop in to do like a "celeb cameo" and we ended up just sat in a little cafe in the middle of nowhere, drinking until the wee hours :)
The first time I saw Skindred, I never saw them. 2006 Download festival, they were in the third tent back then and it was packed. Had to stand outside and listen.
Man Download '06, we didn't realise how great a lineup we had at that festival. And then, typical Guns n Roses fans decided to destroy everything on the final night.
@@EarthlyEden1 I was in the pit for most of that whole night. It was pretty wild even before they came on. I guess everyone expected Axl to be a no-show, and then when he left for half the set, it just tipped people over the edge.
Just seen an old clip of you performing Red Light Spells Danger on Top Gear. How you managed to keep it together with Jeremy Clarkson drumming at triple speed 😂
Bravo Justin, a kickass tribute to a kickass band. I've followed them since the beginning and it's amazing to see them getting some wider recognition. They're been beloved by many for many years. Some of the best times of my life going to Skindred gigs, singing along to them in cars with friends, dancing to them in rock clubs. Yeaaaah, they're amazing!! Had the pleasure of seeing them do an acoustic gig at a music college I used to work at and meeting them. They kicked the arse out of that too. Skindred are what music is all about
Skindred are f’king great! Saw them at download a few years ago, it was pissing down, everyone was soaked and a bit miserable, then Skindred came on and absolutely killed it! Everyone dancing, jumping around and warmed up 🤘
IWe opened in Geneva with Benji and Dub War in the early 90s. I was completely blown away. Love him. We hung out afrerwards and he is genuinely a great guy and the band were incredible
It's quite an odd feeling seeing young people discovering the music of my youth, and even more odd seeing the music being appreciated in the form of Tik Toks. I'm torn between being flattered and feeling like a grumpy old man that feels like the youth of today are "doing it wrong" lol. I mean, in my day metal wasn't something you danced to, it was something you moshed to
A couple of years back my daughter came to me, raving about a 'new band' she and her friends had discovered. It was My Chemical Romance. A 'new band' I out my MCR CDs and said they aren't new 🫣
The offspring in my family had the audacity to try to educate us older ones about some music; simply put I wasn't having any of it, lol. I felt old then, dude; you can't educate me on music from my youth :) haha. I love it though how they're invested in music we grew up listening to :) It keeps me hopeful for our next generations :)
My take is that TikTok reflects the latest generation's rediscovery of the past in the same way the internet of the 00s enabled milennials to rediscover the past. And you had the same stuff back then with people downloading albums but the older generation reacted by fetishising vinyl as if to say "what you're downloading isn't the **real** music". TikTok dances are cringe, but so was Guitar Hero and shit like that. The thing that makes it sad and disorienting is that in each generation something is lost and new things are added that distort the meaning of the original. Everything just moves on and on.
am totally with you there, I think a lot of the TikTok fans are gonna be in shock when they come to a Skindred show given how rough their pits are. I can't help but feel like it's a bit insulting to the band and fans who have supported them since the beginning when BBC and other websites are almost implying their success is now because of or owed to suddenly blowing up on TikTok and not the hard work they've put in over the years or their dedicated fans
Mosh? Pah, you moshing kids haven't even snorted a line of ants or choked on your own vomit. I bet you sit watching your TV instead of throwing it out the window
Aftershock is the Devil's brew! Great show last night in Boston. You guys really brought it! My buddy and I are still trying to figure out what song that was that you came out with in your pajama wear (acoustic style number). Stellar!
YO! Brilliant take on Skindred (a very old school and long time fan here!) and how the presenters react to them! I’m “the girl from Pulverise” doing the TikTok dance with my singer Jojo which the show put a clip of and Benji very kindly mentioned us! We’re a small band from Leeds and the amazing impact this had on us was astronomical! Benji is as down to earth a he’s always been and a champion for the smaller bands of the world. Super legendary and thanks for showing this clip again!
Also about the giving up smoking situation please dont turn to vaping although it can be a deliciously satisfying replacement peersonally it totally messed my throat up and wrecked my voice and this just cant happen to you. We need your voice in our lives. Dont know if others had the same effect but it totaly affected my singing it a very bad way.😖😒😞
@@SuziQ. Vaping has been perfect for me. My nicotine use is down to zero now. Feel much better just vaping weed rather than rolling dirty spliffs. Having one now feels gross, like im eating an ashtray.
@@cjlister8508, Are you using the nicotine free vapes? I feel like vaping is burning my throat, and I haven’t switched to zero nicotine. I’ve been on break from weed, but prefer medibles to flower because of my throat.
Love Skindred. Been a big fan of Benji since the days of Dub War when I was in a band, completely coincidentally, trying to do a similar thing with ragamuffin vocals and metal guitars (we're also Welsh. Must be something in the water!). They made it, we didn't! Keep going Benji - legend of a bloke!
I have no *cough* skin in this game. But these fellas are on it and if younger people are enjoying their music on TikTok then great. Thanks Justin for The Wildhearts mention 👍🏼
Benji has a voice and-a-half! I've not heard of Skindred before today, but I will be checking them out. Their name is a nice portmanteau. So thanks, Justin. I think it's great that they're having a resurgence, and the way they attract a multi-generational crowd is cool. It's an interesting mix of two or three genres. Really solid musicianship, too. Aftershock is terrible. It's viscous. It's a powerful gastro-intestinal and hangover producing emetic. I may have some experience here. When I think of Aftershock, I think of prison, resisting arrest charges and getting tased. When I think of resisting arrest charges and getting tased, I'm pretty sure I know that Aftershock's flavor profile is most likely based on the taste of the floors there.
For real, haven’t seen either THAT many times but they have been on the bill of some festivals I’ve attended. BOTH bands are at their best when they play live. The crowds fucking LOVED them. People who never heard of them were going wild. Some band don’t just wail live but in the party/festival/ wild crowd environment, they murder!!! Cool you’ve witnessed them both! 🎉🎉🎉 4
I'm a huge lover of Skindred! Very proud of them being Welsh, and also mixing reggae and metal together, it's such a brilliant mix. Benji sounds like such a sweet and warm person from how you've described him. I really don't get the patronising tone of the newsreaders regarding Skindred, my brother was a huge fan of theirs, so he introduced me to them! The type of music you can headbang to and wind/shake your hips to!
It wasn't a patronising tone and Justin was wrong for calling it that. They were uneducated and merely bemused. They weren't looking down on the music or performers - they just haven't got a clue about it. I'd likely be the same if I were having to talk to R&B musicians.
I was enjoying the local produce in a coffee shop in Amsterdam around 2001 and I asked the waitress what the music playing was. It was like Dub War but harder, and she said Skindred. Been a fan ever since.
NO WAY! My uncles good friends with Benji hes in a band called dub war with him remember my uncle giving me the new dub war album in hand before it was released
I LMAO in my living room just now at your joke. Guess I would have been the lone laugher at the awards lol. Before today, I'd never heard of Skindred, and no I've not been to a metal concert in the UK (as I live in Australia). But I'd not heard of the Darkness before about a month or so back either so, hmmm. Glad I have now though!! Not sure Skindred is my kind of music but, having only heard what you played on this video, I should probably delve a little further myself. Always cool to learn new things!
Seen Skindred in huge tent, EVERYONE involved, EVERYONE windmilling, and then they came out for an encore (no-one else that festival did) and sung Hey Big Spender... because why not!
I love them, and I love Benji. I've seen them live probably a dozen times now, from Download Fest to the local rock pub. They always put on an incredible show. I don't know how success is measured these days, but I think things have changed so much that there's no relevance to "charts" and radio. You can be a massive success online and make a hell of a lot of money from a great audience, while never having a label and never being played on the radio. You can tour and fill venues in the same way. I'm not sure democratization is the right word, maybe we're just evolving past the gatekeepers and slowly switching to a new model that's more organic and dare I say more wholesome.
Benji is such a lovely guy, i was lucky enough to have skindred as a customer at a touring supply company i used to work for and benji would get the bands drum heads and other bits before heading on the road. bloody top bloke!!!
I don't give main stream any credit; other than being daft; they have no credibility, even music journos; let alone breakfast TV hosts. I'm not surprised at the patronising BS nonsense that happened. FFS talk about Skindred's amazing history etc, but don't make out that main stream is what only matters; it's not, not to music fans; music has no boundaries; but they don't know or understand that. Glad to see you showcasing them :) I'm going to explore some more Welsh bands now, thanks for the inspiration :) From an Aussie, with Welsh family :)
Benji was also on Nevermind The Buzzcocks this year too. With the rather marvelous Nova Twins on another episode. It would appear rock music is sneaking onto telly again
I love benji. I took my 14-year-old to see them, and it was her first ever gig. Benji was amazing and let me get a pic of her with him. I've had pics with him before, always got time for his fans x
Thanks Justin, took me back 20 years, your mention of Faith No More brought back memories of them backing G n R at Main Road in 91. Their set was better than G n R (apart from Slash on the lead). Rocking the Grado RS1's Justin. Your voice sounds amazing through my pair........
Saw them last year with Napalm Death, both supporting Volbeat. Fantastic gig. Three very different bands covering most of the music I love. Have seen Skindred several times live before - always great fun and get the joint jumping. And helicoptering :)
I saw them supporting Blackstone Cherry in 2011 along with Stone Gods ! There was a young girl in front of me totally rocking out to Skindred . after they finished - she just left , and didnt stay for the other bands. Maybe just a fan of reggae / metal , I`m not sure . But it just struck me as a really cool thing to do ...
I had an Earache comp CD with Dub War's song Strike it. and was like wtf is this!!? Upright Jazz bass, reggae, and hardcore/punk. Benji's full on jazz scat section was epic. And when my friend Played me Skindred's first album, i was in.
Thanks! I’ve just discovered a new band! Can’t believe I’ve never heard of them😮!! They’re new album is excellent , got to go, I have some series discovering to do 😃👌🏻👍🏻
Here is my ridiculous mailing list for you to join - next email coming next week: beacons.ai/justinhawkins
Finally!🎉🎉🎉
It's not ridiculous, Justin. It's literally the most interesting thing in my inbox!
Please DO bombard us with your special flavor "bullshit", I sure won't mind.
And the great experience which is to receive an email from Justin Hawkins 😊
@@ZuzuTheLemon Agreed!
This is brilliant! We’re the band Benji mentions and are doing the Nobody TikTok dance in my backyard! Benji and Skindred have been super supportive of us (a small rap metal groove band from Leeds!!) Honoured to have a teeny part of this video!
Get in there and make the most of it, lads! 🙌
I'm convinced part of the contract for bbc breakfast reporters is they must live in some kind of entirely beige bourgeois compound, where there's no risk of them coming into contact with any vaguely interesting cultural content. They react like this to anything and everything, apart from bland stuff that's self manufactured by the BBC. 😂
I remember one of the woman presenters on there knew all about PiLs albums through the years once and i was wondering wtf was going on.
@@Ukraineaissance2014 maybe there is a modicum of hope after all 😂
@@ZuzuTheLemonNo, no hope for BBC at all. As Naom Chomsky pointed out famously in '96, BBC tell folk what to think and are very limiting on what they consider facts or/& information. Mainstream, neoclassical voodoo economics is the stuff BBC is tasked to perpetuate - even when Bank of England was forced (back in '14) to tell some truth, that BBC et al refused to report! Notice how BBC has former Bankers as Chair!!!!
I often feel like hitting the mainstream... but then I try to calm down again 🙂
I came across Skindred for the first time at Beautiful Days this year. They had stepped in at very short notice when the Proclaimers had to cancel. They were nothing short of amazing! Really entertaining, great showmanship, great musicianship and a great sense of humour! Despite the fact that they had only a couple of days notice their show was impeccably planned and delivered and included their own unique take on '500 miles' ❤
I saw them support reel big fish in 2005 and they absolutely killed it live, been a fan since, love that theyre still going
The tassled white leather jacket is the fifth band member.
My brother bought that CD when it came out. We still randomly go "whoop whoop that's the sound of the police, whoop whoop!"
they stepped in to replace the proclaimers at the last minute at the beautiful days festival this year , and ABSOLUTELY SMASHED IT , great band!
The cover of 500 miles was a highlight
You are lucky, my small town has a bit of a musical event each year or two and Sophie Ellis Bexter replaced the proclaimers. Skindred would have been brilliant.
I was there! I joined them on stage for the last song and the Newport Helicopter 😁
I bet the proclaimers fans wondered what on earth they were listening to.
@@BillsOldandNewGamingSophie is really good though, I'd love to catch a show of hers someday.
I have to tell you, I'm just so happy right now to find you thriving. Thank you
Saw them about 5 years ago at a small rock festival in Wales. It was late, wet and for some reason most of the crowd had gone to bed, leaving Skindred with around 200 people max to perform for - yet they absolutely kicked ass. If you can go from performing in front of tens of thousands at Download and bring that same energy wherever you go, you're a great band imo.
Seen them at DL numerous times with an audience of thousands, and then saw them at the local rock pub too, in a packed little room, with about 300 people. Both iterations are always amazing and they put 100% into it. That's one of the reasons they're so loved in the UK metal scene. The music is great, the performance is always amazing, the guys are normal and so down to earth you'll usually find them wandering around after a show.
Would that have been Hard Rock Hell? If so, I was one of the 200.
I was at my uncle's wedding in July. He's 53, a black British, long-dreaded DJ who loves Reggae and Metal and has DJ'd for 35 years. I said we should go see Skindred the next time they play cos they've been one of my most fave bands since I first saw them in 2003. He didn't have a clue who I was talking about.
How abyssmally sad is that, when someone who plays reggae and metal for a living, and is British, doesn't know them?
So I'm glad they're getting a little more exposure - though I'm not sure Morning TV is the best place for them... They need to soundtrack a Christmas ad :D
I don't know who they are either, never heard of them, and after listening to them for a couple seconds I now see why.
Not one for me, but I’m glad they’re achieving this success and recognition. 🥰 Mike & Benji seem like absolutely lovely guys. Something about Benji makes me want to give him a hug, he just seems so cuddly! 🥰 But then again most metal heads do 😅😂🥰
The whole band are nice people, I’ve known them for many years now and there was a time when you couldn’t go into Newport without bumping into Benji and he’d always take time to have a chat. They always used to play a small club called TJs in Newport and that was a great venue for them, small, loud, cheap and sweaty. Hey played some awesome shows there.
@@paulrhyslloyd1TJs! Oh my goodness. I got kicked in the chin in the pit there once by someone jumping off a speaker. Such a fun place. Thanks for the memory jog haven't thought about that place in years!
@@JoGivens it’s sadly no longer there, John the owner, had quite a bit of debt on the club to the point where he was thinking of selling off his memorabilia so after he died his family sold it. It was in a terrible state towards he end and I always said hat if I had ever won the lottery I’d have paid to have had it fixed up to a decent state.
Seeing the Darkness in DC this Sunday!!! Please play Solid Gold, Justin. 🙏
Love Benji! Been listening to him since the Dub War days. Also love the 2 tracks he did with Max Cavalera on Soulfly's debut album.
I love soulfly and Skindred... how did I not know that it was Benji on Soulfly's debut?
What an album... time for a relisten.
@@kevinwilson455 Quilombo and Prejudice. However his role on Quilombo got cut down a lot from the original version - which was known as Blow Away and the rough mix of it finally got released in reissues of the album which gave him more verses.
That’s always been one of my favourite jokes of yours… Kerrang awards?! Should have been at the British Comedy Awards… genius!
Finally, some appreciation and recognition.
Total Mike Patton vibes from Benji ! Never heard of Skindred before but I’m totally in to it. Love from South Africa 🇿🇦
They're one of mine and my son's favourite bands (that list topped by the Darkness, obviously!). He was 11 when we went to Maid of Stone over the summer and they did a signing. They couldn't have been nicer to him! I could barely speak I was so star-struck! Just great. Then we got to the barrier and he did his first Newport Helicopter! He couldn't have been happier that day. Smile has been on repeat ever since.
Over the years, I've introduced loads of my friends to them (since a friend introduced me to them back in 2010?) and I haven't had anyone that's seen them live not come away loving them (ok, there was somebody at Download this year, but she was just upset that 5FDP had cancelled). I've always felt they should be higher up the bill than they usually are (mid to late afternoon) so a 2nd stage headline was well deserved in my eyes.
Skindred were one of those bands I knew the name of, but never heard their stuff. That little bit off the tik tok videos reminds of a band called King Prawn that I used to see in Bedford all the time.
I’ve met Mike, he’s a really nice guy. He showed me how to play one of the riffs from nobody when I went to a guitar summer school in Brighton in 2010.
He is a nice guy🌹 He’s my son 😎
Oh yeah I remember Skindred! Me and my buddies loved listening to their tunes. We loved both reggae and ska, and having a band doing this mix with metal was just awesome. Greetings from Venezuela
Congrats on hitting 477k subscribers! Goes to show how clueless the 2 hosts are, though in their ignorance they 'try' lol. How silly- congrats to Skindred for getting more mileage out of an older song! It's really catchy
1k more in 2 days 😁
Good day to you... i love your "just woke up" style. It seems so real😂😂😂...-27 to Milan gig... cant wait to see you agaiiiiinnn on the ice!
An incredible achievement and well deserved and now they've announced a headline show at Wembley. What a night that will be.
BBC Breakfast do this with every genre, do they not have any researchers these days that can at least give the impression they know what they're on about.
They don’t have to because tv is cheap ass old crap that nobody cares about anymore 😂
Oh they’re the lowest common denominator when it comes to interview research. Not even a google.
Justin, is that cabinet behind you teak-it’s lovely!
I saw them in London in 2005. Much fun!
Skindred answers that question nobody was actually asking: what if Buju Banton replaced Jonathan Davis?
Skindred are amazing. Met Benji at a gig in Cardiff once, he was lovely. Apparently my uncle used to jam with them years ago and they shared a couple of gigs in Narberth, I'm so proud 😁
Remind me a bit of Dub War but how did I miss these guys?
They are great and they will lighten up my workday today for sure.🤘🏽
Haha, just looked them up and no wonder there is some Dub War in there. 😜
They performed in my home town at a really small venue only afew years ago, and Benji was definitely larger than life. They were fucking amazing live, and i wish I'd seen them live sooner, as first heard them from the Need for Speed games. Glad to see them getting even more coverage!
You guys just kicked ass in Philly! Thank you SO MUCH for coming!!!!
Benji is such a legend, we were hanging out the week after the latest album dropped, he was only supposed to drop in to do like a "celeb cameo" and we ended up just sat in a little cafe in the middle of nowhere, drinking until the wee hours :)
Unrelated but I loved the Myles interview. More like it please. 🤘
oooft AFTERSHOCK.
Thanks for the flashbacks Justin!!! :D
The first time I saw Skindred, I never saw them. 2006 Download festival, they were in the third tent back then and it was packed. Had to stand outside and listen.
Man Download '06, we didn't realise how great a lineup we had at that festival. And then, typical Guns n Roses fans decided to destroy everything on the final night.
@@RatelHBadger As a Guns fan that pissed me off as well, all those c'nts throwing the bottles and heckling Bumblefoot.
@@EarthlyEden1 I was in the pit for most of that whole night. It was pretty wild even before they came on. I guess everyone expected Axl to be a no-show, and then when he left for half the set, it just tipped people over the edge.
Just seen an old clip of you performing Red Light Spells Danger on Top Gear. How you managed to keep it together with Jeremy Clarkson drumming at triple speed 😂
Bravo Justin, a kickass tribute to a kickass band. I've followed them since the beginning and it's amazing to see them getting some wider recognition. They're been beloved by many for many years. Some of the best times of my life going to Skindred gigs, singing along to them in cars with friends, dancing to them in rock clubs. Yeaaaah, they're amazing!! Had the pleasure of seeing them do an acoustic gig at a music college I used to work at and meeting them. They kicked the arse out of that too. Skindred are what music is all about
I genuinely laughed at the joke, mate! And I'm genuinely interested in Skindred now! Cheers!
funny, Skindred was on my spotify "discovery mode" for the first time the same day of the upload of this video🤯
Never heard of the band before! Nice to discover something new to dive into! 😀
Song called Selector is probably one of the best starting points
Skindred are f’king great! Saw them at download a few years ago, it was pissing down, everyone was soaked and a bit miserable, then Skindred came on and absolutely killed it! Everyone dancing, jumping around and warmed up 🤘
IWe opened in Geneva with Benji and Dub War in the early 90s. I was completely blown away. Love him. We hung out afrerwards and he is genuinely a great guy and the band were incredible
I laughed the at the joke now if that helps 😂 Skindred kick ass. So, so good. Seem them a few times and always an amazing show.
It's quite an odd feeling seeing young people discovering the music of my youth, and even more odd seeing the music being appreciated in the form of Tik Toks. I'm torn between being flattered and feeling like a grumpy old man that feels like the youth of today are "doing it wrong" lol. I mean, in my day metal wasn't something you danced to, it was something you moshed to
A couple of years back my daughter came to me, raving about a 'new band' she and her friends had discovered. It was My Chemical Romance. A 'new band' I out my MCR CDs and said they aren't new 🫣
The offspring in my family had the audacity to try to educate us older ones about some music; simply put I wasn't having any of it, lol. I felt old then, dude; you can't educate me on music from my youth :) haha. I love it though how they're invested in music we grew up listening to :) It keeps me hopeful for our next generations :)
My take is that TikTok reflects the latest generation's rediscovery of the past in the same way the internet of the 00s enabled milennials to rediscover the past. And you had the same stuff back then with people downloading albums but the older generation reacted by fetishising vinyl as if to say "what you're downloading isn't the **real** music". TikTok dances are cringe, but so was Guitar Hero and shit like that. The thing that makes it sad and disorienting is that in each generation something is lost and new things are added that distort the meaning of the original. Everything just moves on and on.
am totally with you there, I think a lot of the TikTok fans are gonna be in shock when they come to a Skindred show given how rough their pits are. I can't help but feel like it's a bit insulting to the band and fans who have supported them since the beginning when BBC and other websites are almost implying their success is now because of or owed to suddenly blowing up on TikTok and not the hard work they've put in over the years or their dedicated fans
Mosh? Pah, you moshing kids haven't even snorted a line of ants or choked on your own vomit. I bet you sit watching your TV instead of throwing it out the window
Aftershock is the Devil's brew! Great show last night in Boston. You guys really brought it! My buddy and I are still trying to figure out what song that was that you came out with in your pajama wear (acoustic style number). Stellar!
"I Love You 5 Times" ... it's on the Permission To Land... Again anniversary album
@@jdrukman Awesome! Thanks for the heads up. It's on the way in vinyl format.
YO! Brilliant take on Skindred (a very old school and long time fan here!) and how the presenters react to them!
I’m “the girl from Pulverise” doing the TikTok dance with my singer Jojo which the show put a clip of and Benji very kindly mentioned us!
We’re a small band from Leeds and the amazing impact this had on us was astronomical! Benji is as down to earth a he’s always been and a champion for the smaller bands of the world. Super legendary and thanks for showing this clip again!
I saw them at Bradford Rio in 2002, about 50 people there. 22 years on I'm going to see them again at Manchester Academy tomorrow (14th) night
Also about the giving up smoking situation please dont turn to vaping although it can be a deliciously satisfying replacement peersonally it totally messed my throat up and wrecked my voice and this just cant happen to you. We need your voice in our lives. Dont know if others had the same effect but it totaly affected my singing it a very bad way.😖😒😞
I’ve mentioned this, too. My throat is forked up, and I consume way more nicotine than when I smoked. Vaping is not a useful quitting tool.
@@SuziQ. Vaping has been perfect for me. My nicotine use is down to zero now. Feel much better just vaping weed rather than rolling dirty spliffs. Having one now feels gross, like im eating an ashtray.
@@cjlister8508, Are you using the nicotine free vapes? I feel like vaping is burning my throat, and I haven’t switched to zero nicotine.
I’ve been on break from weed, but prefer medibles to flower because of my throat.
Love Skindred. Been a big fan of Benji since the days of Dub War when I was in a band, completely coincidentally, trying to do a similar thing with ragamuffin vocals and metal guitars (we're also Welsh. Must be something in the water!). They made it, we didn't! Keep going Benji - legend of a bloke!
Were you the guys that used to play Warriors of Genghis Khan?
@@ruledtrendy5066 I wish I could say yes! 😆
I have no *cough* skin in this game. But these fellas are on it and if younger people are enjoying their music on TikTok then great. Thanks Justin for The Wildhearts mention 👍🏼
Met Benji in the crowd at the Sonisphere festival quite a few years ago, awesome guy and really cool with me taking a selfie.
Benji has a voice and-a-half! I've not heard of Skindred before today, but I will be checking them out. Their name is a nice portmanteau. So thanks, Justin. I think it's great that they're having a resurgence, and the way they attract a multi-generational crowd is cool. It's an interesting mix of two or three genres. Really solid musicianship, too.
Aftershock is terrible. It's viscous. It's a powerful gastro-intestinal and hangover producing emetic. I may have some experience here. When I think of Aftershock, I think of prison, resisting arrest charges and getting tased. When I think of resisting arrest charges and getting tased, I'm pretty sure I know that Aftershock's flavor profile is most likely based on the taste of the floors there.
I’m getting Faith no more vibes and that’s a good thing, I’m going to look into this 👏
SKINDRED along with The Darkness are just the perfect festival bands. Seen both close to 20 times each now and never put on a bad show.
For real, haven’t seen either THAT many times but they have been on the bill of some festivals I’ve attended. BOTH bands are at their best when they play live. The crowds fucking LOVED them. People who never heard of them were going wild. Some band don’t just wail live but in the party/festival/ wild crowd environment, they murder!!! Cool you’ve witnessed them both! 🎉🎉🎉 4
Interesting you mention The Darkness, the lead singer of that group looks similar to this guy presenting this video!
@@Tyblubearboyit’s really weird. It cant be the guy from the Darkness tho because this dude isn’t wearing a 1 piece.
Skindred, great band! No surprises that the BBC are completely out of touch...
"Mornin', mornin', mornin'"
Class intro 😂
I'm a huge lover of Skindred! Very proud of them being Welsh, and also mixing reggae and metal together, it's such a brilliant mix. Benji sounds like such a sweet and warm person from how you've described him. I really don't get the patronising tone of the newsreaders regarding Skindred, my brother was a huge fan of theirs, so he introduced me to them!
The type of music you can headbang to and wind/shake your hips to!
It wasn't a patronising tone and Justin was wrong for calling it that. They were uneducated and merely bemused. They weren't looking down on the music or performers - they just haven't got a clue about it. I'd likely be the same if I were having to talk to R&B musicians.
Dude. Awesome show at the Wiltern!!!! You guys effing ROCKED!
Oooooh, thanks for talking about this band. I haven't ever heard of them, but they sound right up my ally and about to go down the rabbit hole.
I'm seeing Skindred tomorrow in Newcastle! Can't wait
Benji sang on recent soundtrack for a feature film I shot on. Always been a fan and he’s awesome.
Cough syrup but alcoholic... ... ... Jägermeister?
this series introduces me to some great songs/bands i might never of listened to before, i love that
I was enjoying the local produce in a coffee shop in Amsterdam around 2001 and I asked the waitress what the music playing was. It was like Dub War but harder, and she said Skindred. Been a fan ever since.
Justin Fucking Hawkins Rides Againnnnn!!! 🎸🥁🎶🎶
NO WAY! My uncles good friends with Benji hes in a band called dub war with him remember my uncle giving me the new dub war album in hand before it was released
Nice throwback to NFS underground 2.
Exactly
I LMAO in my living room just now at your joke. Guess I would have been the lone laugher at the awards lol. Before today, I'd never heard of Skindred, and no I've not been to a metal concert in the UK (as I live in Australia). But I'd not heard of the Darkness before about a month or so back either so, hmmm. Glad I have now though!! Not sure Skindred is my kind of music but, having only heard what you played on this video, I should probably delve a little further myself. Always cool to learn new things!
had a blast last night at Terminal 5! keep on rockin' on!
Seen Skindred in huge tent, EVERYONE involved, EVERYONE windmilling, and then they came out for an encore (no-one else that festival did) and sung Hey Big Spender... because why not!
Exactly... sounds like Mike Patton.
I love them, and I love Benji. I've seen them live probably a dozen times now, from Download Fest to the local rock pub. They always put on an incredible show.
I don't know how success is measured these days, but I think things have changed so much that there's no relevance to "charts" and radio. You can be a massive success online and make a hell of a lot of money from a great audience, while never having a label and never being played on the radio. You can tour and fill venues in the same way.
I'm not sure democratization is the right word, maybe we're just evolving past the gatekeepers and slowly switching to a new model that's more organic and dare I say more wholesome.
I don't care how young people discover good art.
Benji is such a lovely guy, i was lucky enough to have skindred as a customer at a touring supply company i used to work for and benji would get the bands drum heads and other bits before heading on the road. bloody top bloke!!!
What an awesome record. Been listening to it for donkeys years, but this is the first time I have seen any of the video. Number 2 album? Deserved
I saw them back in 2004 at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. They opened for Korn. I nearly died of exhaustion. We moshed all night.
Wow.. sounds really interesting. I have to go listen to them after this. 😺🤘🏻
I don't give main stream any credit; other than being daft; they have no credibility, even music journos; let alone breakfast TV hosts. I'm not surprised at the patronising BS nonsense that happened. FFS talk about Skindred's amazing history etc, but don't make out that main stream is what only matters; it's not, not to music fans; music has no boundaries; but they don't know or understand that.
Glad to see you showcasing them :) I'm going to explore some more Welsh bands now, thanks for the inspiration :)
From an Aussie, with Welsh family :)
Benji was also on Nevermind The Buzzcocks this year too.
With the rather marvelous Nova Twins on another episode.
It would appear rock music is sneaking onto telly again
I always remember that song from Need for speed 2. Also the news talking about tiktok
Anybody else hear Jonathan Davis in the growl a bit?
I love benji. I took my 14-year-old to see them, and it was her first ever gig. Benji was amazing and let me get a pic of her with him. I've had pics with him before, always got time for his fans x
Thanks Justin, took me back 20 years, your mention of Faith No More brought back memories of them backing G n R at Main Road in 91. Their set was better than G n R (apart from Slash on the lead). Rocking the Grado RS1's Justin. Your voice sounds amazing through my pair........
That vibrato gets me every time ♥️
Their touring the uk right now going to see them for the 4th time tomorrow! Incredible live band, great to see you react to them!
Definitely getting Mike Patton vibes!
Check out Dubwar kids, Benjis previous band. Million Dollar Love, Silencer, great vocal performances
Saw them last year with Napalm Death, both supporting Volbeat. Fantastic gig. Three very different bands covering most of the music I love. Have seen Skindred several times live before - always great fun and get the joint jumping. And helicoptering :)
I saw them supporting Blackstone Cherry in 2011 along with Stone Gods ! There was a young girl in front of me totally rocking out to Skindred . after they finished - she just left , and didnt stay for the other bands. Maybe just a fan of reggae / metal , I`m not sure . But it just struck me as a really cool thing to do ...
Good call on Mike Patton .. I'd forgotten all about these guys and seeing as I'm not on TikTok or Insta or Facepalm I missed the resurgence.
That joke just made me laugh out loud. Surprised none laughed!
Not my kinda music. I spent my rain day opening and listening to all 5 The Darkness LPs from the 20th Anniversary Box Set. Awesome release.
Was introduced to Skindred from Need for Speed Underground 2 back in the day. Loved them ever since. Great to see another generation being introduced.
Great video as always! You look a bit tired Justin, hope you're doing well. Take care. Much Love.
“I’ll catch you cats on the flip side” 😎 I love it, my phrase of the day !!
Anyone else remember when they formed from Dub war?? Anyone??
I had completely forgotten about that song, it's a banger!
I had an Earache comp CD with Dub War's song Strike it. and was like wtf is this!!? Upright Jazz bass, reggae, and hardcore/punk. Benji's full on jazz scat section was epic. And when my friend Played me Skindred's first album, i was in.
Thanks! I’ve just discovered a new band! Can’t believe I’ve never heard of them😮!! They’re new album is excellent , got to go, I have some series discovering to do 😃👌🏻👍🏻
The Dark Side of beautiful from Dubwar, Benji's other band is a wonderful album