It has been a hugely successful year for Welsh ragga-rockers Skindred, who celebrated 25 years as a band with the release of their exhilarating eighth record Smile, which achieved a career-high Number 2 in the UK Album Charts for the quartet. It has been a long road for Benji Webbe’s crew, their diehard fanbase growing and growing with every triumphant live show, and earlier this summer the Skindred singer explained to this writer the moment when he realised he wanted to front a band.
“I must have been about 11, 12, because my brother was in a band and one day he took me to the show, a festival in north Wales,” Webbe said. “My parents died quite young and my brother was only 21 at the time and he was this rasta, ganja-smoking sound system kind of guy but he said to me, ‘come and see what we do’.”
