If Benji Webbe and his Welsh bandmates are wary of wedding two styles as disparate as metal and reggae, they take a brash approach to overcoming it.
"Listen to raggametal", implored the T-shirts at the back of the throbbing sardine tin that was Concorde 2, and several attendees found such pleasure in doing so they forgot how humid it was, requiring varying levels of resuscitation after being dragged out.
Webbe, whose dread-locks and outspoken love for mankind sit uneasily with the traditional metal attitude, pulls it off largely thanks to the exclusivity of their ploy.
"Show dem the ragga punk power and watch dem head twist," goes ever-popular single Nobody. Watching Skindred take their own advice, their sincerity was heartfelt enough to do justice to both genres.
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