Popular band Fun Loving’ Criminals, known for their varied cocktail of hip hop, rock, blues, jazz, punk and funk, have announced they’ll be performing a gig in Southampton in the New Year.

The New York trio, with hits including Scooby Snacks and Love Unlimited, will be putting on a show at the Engine Rooms on February 11.

The gig comes after the 20th anniversary year of the group’s debut album Come Find Yourself, during which they saw a summer of festival headlines across Europe.

Fun Lovin’ Criminals burst onto the music scene in 1996, gate crashing the euphoric Brit-pop party and have been performing at sell out shows in the three decades since.

They are best known for the hit 'Scooby Snacks", which features samples from films by Quentin Tarantino, and the song "Love Unlimited", which recalls Barry White's backing vocal group. Their songs often focus on life in New York City, as well as urban life in general. Their lyrics can be gritty or existentialist in nature, touching on topics such as organized crime and urban violence, but they are just as often humorous or satirical.

Frontman turned Sony Award winning BBC radio broadcaster Huey Morgan said: “FLC always bring a mucho grande style. In my half Irish, half Puerto Rican vernacular, this means we goin’ BIG. Of course we want everybody to come along for the ride, we wouldn’t be doing this if it wasn’t for the fans. Bigger the party the better, so come join us!”

The Lower East side trio, consisting of founding partner Brian ‘Fast’ Leiser on bass, trumpet and samples and the group's longest-standing drummer Frank ‘The Rhythm Master’ Benbini, will be hitting the UK for a 12 date UK/IRE tour for, as the FLC song of the same name states; a Big Night Out.

Testament to the Crims critical and cultural importance, 2016 also marked the year that the worlds most esteemed lexicographers officially added the term ‘Scooby Snacks’ to the Oxford English Dictionary, citing the famous lyrics to the global FLC hit single of the same name in the new edition.

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