Goldie Lookin Chain
Goldie Lookin Chain are the funniest thing to come
out of Wales since Steven Johnson tried to pass himself off as the king
of Welsh Hip Hop. A mix of Primark and market chic, the Newport crew, could
just be one of the bands of the year with Cat Deeley practically frothing
at the mouth with the same degree of intensity as fellow Must Destroy Record
label mates the Darkness. Rumours are abound that the GLC and The Darkness
are going to collaborate on "Walk This Way" at the Carling Weekend, but
for the time being read one of Designer Magazine's strangest disjointed
interviews to date. Billy, Eggsy, Mystikal, Adam Hussein were all present,
if not entirely of this planet.
Q: How are the GLC crew hanging today
Mystikal: We popped in to watch Amen and hear
the magical sound of metal...
Eggsy: ....I found the toilet
and had a shit. I've been waiting to do that all day. It was one those
horrible shits. It was just like little slugs coming out of my bum. There
was a slight smudging.
Q: And the single "Half Man, Half Machine"?
Mystikal: Saturday morning television really.
Cartoons, Transformers. Always wanting to be something you could never
achieve and trying anyway.
Eggsy: I knew a kid, he's a teacher now so he's
quite respectable, but when he was younger he used to believe lasers could
come out of his eyes by going (bleep bleep) and scrunching his eyes up.
I keep bringing it up now and he's highly embarrassed. He used to live
over the road from the allotment and he used to take coat hangers over
there and throw them cos he thought they were like the spinning discs things.
Q: It's kind of Transformers meets Blue Peter meets
the menacing stare from Footballers Wives
Eggsy: Yeah, that's the vibe
Q: The big question - Robocop Vs Transformers?
Mystikal: Transformers easily. You got a Robot
and a car in one so you got two for the price of one. Essentially Robocop
was Half Man Half Machine, but he was shit.
Adam Hussein: If you take a shit while having a stiffy your bell end will increase to twice it's normal size and then it explodes. So moral of this story is never ever ever ever take a shit while you've got a hard on....
Mystikal: ...no matter how much it's poking out. That's Adam Husseins Medical Corner.
Adam Hussein: That's gonna
save a lot of lives that. I'm spreading the world man
Q: Welsh Rap - East Side Vs West Side?
Eggsy: It's mainly just people sitting down drinking
and smoking fags as opposed to warfare
Mystikal: Most people really don't understand how the geography of it all works. It's either Newport, or it's outside of Newport. That's as far as it goes. North, South, East, West - it's all the same
Eggsy: The rivalry mainly lies between the schools.
St Josephs used to come over with their bats thinking they were hard. Up
until the age of 16 you fight the rival schools, from the age of 16 you
drink illegally and when you reach the age of 18 you drink legally.
Q: You just signed the deal with Must Destroy Records
a few weeks ago. At the signing party your local Welsh MP joined the GLC
massive, is it the first step of the mission to get as many MPs on the
GLC vibe as possible?
Eggsy: I wouldn't mind meeting Ann Widdecome and
Mo Mowlam, get em both drunk, make a movie with them and sell it on the
internet. Imagine Edwina Currie bouncing up and down on top of you...if
we were both drunk enough I probably would.
Mystikal: I can imagine Edwina Currie being the manager of a call centre or something and when she gets drunk at the Xmas Party...exactly.
Eggsy: I wouldn't take her out for a series of dates leading up to sex. I'd just have drunk horrible sex with her, throw £20 at her and say get out of my sight. There would be some perverse pleasure in the whole process for all the wrong reasons.
Q: What are women like in Newport then - lookers up
there with the Widdecome or Mowlam?
Eggsy: Wicked, but there's some really horrible
ones. There's a Titty Bar that's opened up in Newport a little while ago
and there's another bar next to it. And when they come out for a break
they pop into this bar and that's quite good. In the Mezze Bar the birds
come from the Titty bar and that's nice.
Mystical: There's a story about a woman who lived
next to our old primary school who if ever your football or tennis ball
went over she would try to eat you with her vag. She had a mouth in her
vag that could eat various limbs. You would jump over to get your football
back, it would be like 'Vag Mouth is coming'. Big teeth and everything!!!
Q: What other characters are there to look out for
when we head over to Newport?
Eggsy: Waterman. He wears yellow John Lennon glasses
and carries water from Cardiff to Newport on the train or on a bike because
he thinks there's too much water in the River Usk.
There's loads of famous people from Wales. Eddie Murphy
was born and lived in Cardiff till he was six and then went to live in
America. Bob Marley's old man is Welsh. Jacques Chirac is from Drisca.
Terry Wogan is from Wales. Edwina Curry. Barry Bulsara the stalker guy
who killed Jill Dando. But Manchester's got Harold Shipman so you win!!!
Q: So you've took it from the streets of Newport to
compete with the mighty Blazin Squad. You're hitting em big style
Mystical: What do Blazin Squad sing about?
Eggsy: Well these did songs about reversing and crossroads so they're obviously into cars. I heard they were gonna do a single with Jeremy Clarkson, but i'm not sure if were gonna go that way.
Billy: I heard they passed their test first time
and that's why they want to Flip Reverse it and get to the Crossroads.
It's their vibe.
Q: What would you have to way to be a Goldie Lookin
Chain groupie?
Eggsy: I thought you were gonna say junkie then?
(Laughs) Smack, crack, heroin. But someone who is fit and wants to be touched
or to touch is fine. That's pretty much all they need to be, just sexually
aware.
Mystical: Or a girl who is about 18 or 19 and is
from Aberdeen and has travelled all the way down to Glasgow, has had half
a bottle of whisky and is banging on the tour bus door saying "I wanna
have sex with you".
Q: Finally if one of our readers wants to come a member
of your crew how do they do it?
Mystical: They can simply buy some gold or some
leisure wear and hang around street corners
Billy: It's all about living the dream in this game. Are you living the dream? Yeah, well you're f**king GLC man
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"Half Man Half Machine" is out now on Must Destroy
Records
Goldie Looking Chain play Leeds / Reading Festivals
For more info on the GLC
www.youknowsit.co.uk
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