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It’s only when you hear them again, you realise how much you missed them.

“No-one can really do what the Fun Lovin Criminals do,” announces vocalist, lyricist, guitarist and twinkle-eyed wise-guy Huey Morgan.  “We aren’t trying to keep up with the Joneses ‘cos there are no Joneses.  There’s just us, who sound like us.  And we’re pretty bad-ass.” And here, his unmistakeable New York baritone cracks into a deep-throat cackle: “Heheheh!”

They are, still, the world’s finest and only purveyors of cinematic hobo hip-hop rock ‘n’ roll blues-jazz soul-review vibes.  The planet’s best-loved “cousins from New York” who, through the mid-late 90s, chronicled life in their native city while bending the global ear to the sonic possibilities of exuberant hip-hop gangster-rock merged with lounge music, funk, Mariachi trumpets and bassomatic Barry White.  While possibly smoking a cheroot, in a sweat-dripped Puerto Rican nightclub, somewhere on the Lower East Side.  Like The Killers and Kings of Leon today, the UK loved them first, the most; whip-smart story-tellers in smarter Savile Row suits, who told vibrant, satirical, comically tall tales of living large in the neon metropolis via music, drugs, crime and existential ennui.  With a penchant for a beautiful “lady”.

Fun Lovin Criminals return with a new single 'We the Three/Keep on Yellin' on 23rd August and Tour the UK in September :

Thu 2   Aldershot, The Palace (£20 from http://www.thepalacevenue.com/?p=364)

Fri 3    Sheffield, The Plug (£20 from http://www.the-plug.com or 0871 230 1101)

Sat 4    Preston, 53 Degrees (£20 from http://www.53degrees.net or 0871 220 0260)

Sun 5    Buckley, Tivoli (£17.50 from http://www.seetickets.com or 01244 546 201)

Tue 7    Salisbury, City Hall (£22.50/£20 from http://www.cityhallssalisbury.co.uk or 01722 434434)

Wed 8    St Albans, The Arena (£22.50 / £20 from http://www.alban-arena.co.uk or 01727 844488)

Fri 10   UK, Holmfirth, Picturedrome (£22.50 from http://www.picturedrome.net or 0871 230 1101)

Sat 11    Edinburgh, HMV Picture House (£17.50 from http://www.ticketweb.co.uk or or 0844 847 1740)

Sun 12    Middlesbrough, Empire (£17.50 from http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk/alttickets/home_fun_lovin_criminals.html)

Tue 14   UK, Lincoln, Engine Shed (£17.50 from http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk/alttickets/home_fun_lovin_criminals.html)

Wed 15    Norwich, UEA (£20/£18.50 from http://www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk/events/fun-lovin-criminals.aspx or 01603 508050)

Thu 16    Cambridge, Junction (£18.50 from http://www.junction.iristickets.co.uk or 01223 511511)

Sat 18    Wolverhampton, Wulfrun Hall (£22/£20 from http://www.wolvescivic.co.uk or 0870 3207000)