“Yeah, we’ve done alright, haven’t we?” Benji laughs as he thinks back on his band’s history.

“I think, in our career since, we maybe have tried to do things that were a bit different and unnatural, or we have listened to what the label wanted a bit. It’s fucking rock’n’roll! England and Wales company registration number 2008885. But I was sure about this song, I really believed in it, and I wasn’t afraid to tell Howard what I thought. Bath Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, All rights reserved. “If nothing had come of it then I guess I would have gone off to try to do something else. “I just thought we might get a little bit of money for it. “We toured all over the US with whoever would have us,” Benji declares. “We just went off on our own and were writing as a pair,” Benji continues. A man Benji describes as “hard work”.“Howard had some funny ideas.” Benji sighs. How Skindred hit on the ragga-metal classic that would save frontman Benji Webbe’s careerAs Dan and Benji tried in vain to play with various unsuitable musicians their frustrations grew, to the point where the pair of them decided to start creating music by themselves.

You know me, it wasn’t planned too far in advance, I just like to vibe on stuff. During these shows Benji would study the crowd reactions to certain songs. “Jeff and Ginge didn’t really want to tour, they had families and wanted a quiet life, and so we went and found Mikey [Demus, guitar] and Arya [Goggin, drums] and that’s when we really became Skindred. "Nobody" peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number 23 on its Modern Rock Tracks chart in 2004. And, well, I ended up getting my own way, so...”“A lot of the same things that led to Dub War breaking up were coming up again,” says Benji. “He brought it in one day and I remember thinking that there was definitely something about it that I liked, that I could add something really cool to it.”Although the duo had a few songs that they believed in, they still were without half a band – until a chance meeting with Benji’s former Dub War bandmates gave birth to Skinded’s first incarnation.

“I’ve always just loved music, whatever type of music I can get in my ears, and back then a lot of people had written me off. The album was repackaged and re-released a couple of years later, and we’ve just never looked back have we?”Finally settled and secure, Skindred embarked on a touring schedule so intense that it would petrify even the most hardened road warriors. I think that we’re just thought of as Skindred now. But we thought we had some good stuff; a few of the songs that ended up on our first record actually came out of that first session.”One of these would go on to become a Skindred anthem. Skindred were newly signed to US label Bieler Bros, and, with their record bosses based on the other side of the Atlantic, the band were summoned from Newport to LA to record their debut album with high-profile producer Howard Benson. We had split amicably so I didn’t see any reason why I wouldn’t do that.”With Skindred now a complete band they headed out on the road, honing the skills that would see them become that most consistently brilliant of live bands that we have come to know and love.

I was in there doing my thing, I came out and thought I’d nailed it and Howard wasn’t happy. It also appears on Need for Speed: Underground 2 and MX vs. ATV Unleashed soundtracks.

Song Nobody; Artist Skindred; Album Nobody; Writers Benji Webbe, Jeff Rose, Martyn Ford, Daniel Pugsley I wanted it raw and live and fresh! By this point, they’ve got more bangers than your local butcher, but “Oh, we have to play it every time,” Benji snaps back immediately when asked if he ever thinks about giving But how does Benji personally feel when he’s playing the song now compared to those vital early shows?“Well, it’s usually one of the last few songs in the set,” he smiles. Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offerReceive mail from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors? BA1 1UA. “I went to a party and I bumped into Jeff [Rose, guitar] and Ginge [AKA Martin Ford, drums] and I was telling them that we had some great songs, but nobody to play them with us!” Benji laughs. “Dan came up with the idea for Nobody back then,” says Benji. But I think that we have proved everyone wrong. “That’s always been one of our strongest points. “So, they offered to join the band. He had a pretty different idea to what he wanted us to sound like to me. You will receive a verification email shortly.There was a problem.

We are probably the only band that can go out, as we did, with Korn and Gogol Bordello and get the same reaction from both fanbases.” And, again, night after night, Nobody was getting the biggest response of all of their material. “He had produced P.O.D., Crazy Town, all that stuff.

I don’t even think he wanted it on the album, let alone as a single.”Of course, Benji Webbe is not the sort of person to be dissuaded from his opinion on the strength of one producer’s say-so.“We bashed heads over it, definitely,” he says. It’s a draining experience fronting Skindred, you gotta know that! But, as Benji remembers it, the song was really boosted when it was included on the soundtrack for the game “I never thought much about it, I never played those games growing up,” he laughs. When it comes to A pretty good legacy for a song written by a pair of musicians without a band, without knowing if they had a future in music and without knowing if the finished song would ever even see the light of day. A lot of people thought Skindred were just another band jumping on that nu metal bandwagon. He said that it would never work and that we should just delete it there and then. “But, wherever we went, this song Not everyone quite felt the same. One seemed to constantly get a huge response.“We were playing bottom of the bill on all kinds of little tours, playing pubs and toilet venues, just putting ourselves out and about, you know how it is,” he grins. "Nobody" is the first single from Skindred's 2002 / 2004 debut album, Babylon. As the years have progressed, Skindred have become an institution in the metal scene, spending more than a decade turning up to festivals the world over and casually blowing everyone offstage.

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