When The Chemicals Ignite With Fuel - Music

Try An Imagine If You A Will The Future. It’s 2008 The World Is At War With Itself The Government Is On Its Knees And The Economy Is In Free-Fall. If You Were Born In The 70’s This Scenario Would Seem Like We Were Covering Old Ground. But You Weren’t Born In 1970…you Were Born In 1980 And For Most Twenty-Somethings Life Has Been Pretty Good Of Late. And That’s Where Beat Six Come In. It’s Gonna Get Grimy Again. The Streets Are About To Erupt In A Retaliation To The Burgeoning Unemployment Problems Immigration Bad Jobs And Bad Drugs. Beats Six Don’t Sing About Geezers In Town Centres In Tracksuits….They Are The Men In Tracksuits!!! It’s 2008 And The Location Is West London. A Small Outpost In This Low-Rise Wasteland Of Industrial Units Aircraft Hangars And One-Way Systems Has Finally Been Noticed By Meejahland Through The Patronage Of It’s Most Famous Resident Ali G And The Post-Clash Soul Sensation That Is Known As Hard-Fi. Richard Archer And The Boys Constantly Reference The Town They Grew Up In As Its All They Have. Pimped Up Peugeots Drum N’ Bass Rude Boys And The Incessant Whistling Of Dump Valves And Jet Engines From Beyond The Reservoir At T4. This Is Beat Six Country. And Boy Do Beat Six Know It Well. They Know It Really Well. And Why Do You Ask Do They Know It So Well. Well The Answer Is That In The 25 Years Of Existence The Five Members Of Beat Six Have Never Left The Place. These Boys Have Been Together For 10 Years And Known Each Other Since Infant School. At 15 Or 16 When Other Youngsters Were Dreaming About Which University They Would Get Into And How They Would Spend Their Student Loans These Boys Were Stacking Shelves To Pay For Studio Time In Order To Work On Their Latest Bedroom Ballad. Through Different Incarnations And The Odd Member Malfunction Beat Six Were Formed In 2005. It Was The Myspace Era Long Gone Now…but Remember That Old Thing About As Popular Now As Chlymadia Amongst The Generation That Helped Build It Into The Billion Dollar Organisation It Now Is. But Boy Did It Inspire Beat Six. They Knew They Could Reach Out And Did! But What About The Important Bit. The Sound. The Sound! The Sound Is Completely Unique. And It Was Organic And Evolved Not The Result Of Band Meetings And A Super Slick Management Team Conflab. I Cannot Directly Compare The Sound To Anything. Think Very Early Duran Mid-Era Echo And The Bunnymen A Touch Of David Sylvian But Poppy And Hard-Edged And For All That Is Holy NOW For God’s Sake!!! Frontman Rob Has Just That Front! He Has The Lowkey Charm Of Terry Hall In 1979 When Fronting The Specials The Ability To Eyeball The Front Row Without Taking Them On But Making Sure That When He Is On Stage They Know He Is The Boss. No Skinny Ties No Haircuts No Ridiculous Wordplay Just Powerful And Passionate. Like An Un-Manufactured Killers With Streetsmarts! These Boys Are On The Edge Of Something Special. read less