Goldie Lookin Chain to get fans on stage

 How do you fancy getting up on stage with the GLC?  Basically, the person who makes the biggest effort in getting dressed up at each show, gets to go onstage with the band for the last song of the set. Fans have always made an effort (a lot of dressing like robots!) and this is a way to give an incentive to those who fancy dressing up, in coming up with novel ways of expressing their inner Goldie Lookin Soul.

If you fancy this all you have to do is make your way over to the merch stand before the show starts to have their picture taken, and the person who made the most effort/looks the best wins a Goldie Lookin Ticket to go onstage and dance around with the band, couldn’t be easier,..

All the fancy dress pictures from that night’s show will also go up on the band’s website each night after the gig, together with the band’s tour blog. 

With heavy street accents and loads of slang-slinging, comedy rappers Goldie Lookin Chain are proud to be lazy sods from Newport, Wales. Main man P. Xain had been working on tracks in his bedroom on cheap samplers when he met likeminded louts Eggsy and Adam Hussein. Getting stoned, drinking, hanging out, and thumbing their noses at respectability left the group just enough time to do some recording. Soon, new members were being added every week or so and self-made CD-Rs were being released. Don’t Blame the Chain was the first, and Newport’s youth fell in love with it. Internet trading of the band’s music became common in the U.K. and more CD-Rs appeared. Addiction, Return of the Red Eye, and The Party Album all became slacker favorites, but it was a publicity prank that put the Chain in front of the mainstream.

The group — now eight members strong — claimed that classical darling Charlotte Church was their backup singer on tracks like “Stick It in Cider” and “Monkey Love,” and the press fell for it. Church’s lawyers forced a retraction and a “sorry” from the GLC, but it was too late, the Chain were now stars. “Rollerdisco” became their first proper 12″ in 2003 and soon the GLC were working on a live show. They opened for the likes of Super Furry Animals, the Streets, and the Darkness, and released another single, “Half Man, Half Machine.” It did well among the fan base, but it was the infectious and hilarious Guns Don’t Kill People, Rappers Do that put the band on the national U.K. television show Top of the Pops. The Atlantic label signed them in the U.K. and released Greatest Hits — a collection of the best numbers from their CD-Rs — in September of 2004. The album appeared in the U.S. in May of 2005 with a new title, Straight Outta Newport.