Benji Webbe’s flamboyant stagewear is almost as synonymous with Skindred as the Newport Helicopter, the singer always ensuring that he is the most stylishly outrageous man in the vicinity at the band’s live shows. But anyone who caught the group in their very early days will have noted that Webbe wasn’t always dressed to the nines. In fact, it took a friend advising him to lord it up a little for the singer to get in touch with his ostentatious side, as he told this writer in a chat for Classic Rock last year.
“I used to wear dark colours onstage, I wasn’t this flamboyant guy,” Webbe explained. “My friend came to a gig and he was like, ‘You were great but I couldn’t see you – you need to wear brighter colours!’ and I went, ‘really?’. ‘Get yourself a nice bright jacket!’. After that, it hit me, and I started watching people like the Pope, when he turns up you know he’s in the room.”
