Surrender To The Blender - King Prawn

Fully paid up non-conformists and out and out eccentrics, King Prawn have been a live favourite around the London club scene for a while now, especially the last couple of years. With their, excuse the pun, blend, of punk-fuelled ska and unseeminglyunrelenting thirst for fun, the band sound like Madness, The Specials and the Clash all rolled into one...not a bad combination at all, and eclectic to say the least. Thing is, it works with their particular ...

starflower 09.09.2000 · Read full review
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Surrender To The Blender King Prawn (1999 Spitfire records) King Prawn are difficult to define and catagorize. King Prawn are a mix of ska punk (mainly) with a bit or rap and hip hop. This compliments the multi racial band- Devil hands would look like a cockney thug if he didn’t smile all the time and also be a genuinely nice bloke. Only the drummer’s name: Nikoli suggests that he may not be mono cultured. However Babar, especially in his stage ...
...a massive beard and Al looks generally Asian. The album has a spooky intro and this leads into the Pixies-esque (in terms of volume and style change during one song) Someone to Hate. It is a fun album with clever lyrics. There is great singing from Al and everything fits together nicely. It’s like a small picture from the racial melting pot that London has become. ...

DJtimmytimtim 17.10.2000 · Read full review
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