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Goldie Lookin Chain News

Goldie Lookin Chain for London club show

Goldie Lookin Chain for London club show

Newport rappers set for a one-off gig this month

  • Jan 23, 2009

Goldie Lookin Chain play 'pay-what-you-like' show in London

The Welsh rappers preview new album 'Asbo4Life'

Goldie Lookin Chain announce UK tour

Band hit the road in 2009

Goldie Lookin Chain to play 'pay-what-you-like' show

Rap collective will warm-up for tour by letting punters pick price

  • Dec 3, 2008

Goldie Lookin Chain to preview new album

The Welsh rap collective announce new live dates

  • Jan 8, 2008

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Goldie Lookin Chain YouTube Videos

Goldie Lookin' Chain - Your Missus Is A Nutter

Goldie Lookin' Chain - Your Missus Is A Nutter (03:38)

The music video from the Goldie Lookin' Chain single, You're Missus Is A Nutter.

Goldie Lookin Chain - Guns don't kill people

Goldie Lookin Chain - Guns don't kill people (06:42)

Goldie Lookin Chain - Guns don't kill people

your mothers got a penis

your mothers got a penis (02:44)

your mothers got a penis ... goldie lookin chain

Goldie Lookin Chain - You knows I love you

Goldie Lookin Chain - You knows I love you (03:30)

Le groupe de hip hop gallois nous gratifie d'un single et d'une vidéo bien sentis ! I wanna take you to Mcdonalds with a candle Girl, it's my love you can't handle I see you walking on the way home from work Your...

Goldie lookin Chain - Sister

Goldie lookin Chain - Sister (03:21)

Goldie Lookin Chain - Sister

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Goldie Lookin Chain Media Player

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Goldie Lookin Chain Reviews

Album review: Goldie Lookin Chain

Album review: Goldie Lookin Chain

Asbo 4 Life

Goldie Lookin Chain: Astoria, London, Wednesday, February 15

Who better to review GLC than Maggot’s Celeb Big Brother housemate Rula Lenska?

  • Mar 3, 2006

Goldie Lookin Chain: Safe As Fuck

The supposed novelty of GLC shows no sign of wearing off just yet

  • Sep 19, 2005

Goldie Lookin' Chain : Bristol Bierkeller

You knows it makes sense...

  • May 19, 2004

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Goldie Lookin Chain Biography

Welsh hip-hop collective Goldie Lookin Chain is either a novelty band with one joke (and arguably a two-decade old joke, at that), or satirists of hip-hop and contemporary society, finding humour in the gulf between the band's own aesthetics and the bling more commonly associated with rap music. Dressing like early 80s shopping centre breakdancers, the collective - Eggsy (aka Mr. Love Eggs), Dwayne "Xain" Zedong, Adam Hussain, Mike Balls (aka Hardest Man In Soccer Violence), 2Hats, Billy Webb (aka Tim Westcountry), Mystikal, and Maggot (b. Andrew Major) - appropriate a genre that fetishises black American culture and transpose it to Newport, Wales.

After releasing a series of home-made CD-Rs, Goldie Lookin Chain debuted for Atlantic Records in 2004 with Greatest Hits, apparently because the Queen album of the same name "did very well so we thought we'd have a go". Greatest Hits found currency in a variety of subjects including, Mecca bingo halls, Victoria Beckham, and "medium value" McDonald's meals. The single "Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do" mocked government hysteria over hip-hop while referencing Zammo from children's school-based UK television series Grange Hill. "Half Man, Half Machine" referenced 80s computers including ZX Spectrums, Commodores, BBC Micros and Speak 'N' Spell machines in a tale of dressing up as a (silver foil-covered) automaton and nipping down to the newsagent, while faux boy band ballad and Christmas single "You Knows I Loves You" rhymed Milli Vanilli with Caerphilly and sought resonance from lines like "I see you walking on the way home from work/Your Tesco tunic really drives me berserk". Over the course of an album, however, it became apparent that once past the humour of their utter incongruousness, Goldie Lookin Chain really were not hugely funny. As The Guardian newspaper problematically recognized, "When GLC name-drop murdered Boogie Down Productions producer Scott LaRock while interpolating a song by BDP's KRS-One, they prove that they know and (presumably) love hip-hop, yet their whole schtick panders to the outdated prejudices of listeners who don't and that's what makes this album rotten.'

Goldie Lookin Chain notably caused a minor furore when they performed at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium before the 2005 World Cup qualifying match between England and Wales: the group was criticized by the Welsh Football Association after dedicating "Your Missus Is A Nutter" (the first single from second album Safe As F**k) to Victoria Beckham. The following year, Maggot appeared on the reality television show Celebrity Big Brother, finishing a credible third. Despite the added profile his appearance gave to the band, they were dropped by Atlantic shortly afterwards. They set up their own label Gold Dust Records and released a third album, Under The Counter, at the start of 2008. The album featured the delicious Kelly Osbourne tribute, "Song For Kelly".

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Goldie Lookin Chain Discography

Goldie Lookin Chain albums.

  • Greatest Hits - UK ()
  • Straight Outta Newport - USA ()
  • Safe As F**k - 2005 (Atlantic)
  • Under The Counter - 2008 (Gold Dust/Shellshock)

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