Thirty years after the explosive debut of Fun Loving Criminals, founder Huey Morgan has announced a Southampton show.
Celebrating the moment Come Find Yourself crashed the Britpop party, he returns with a brand new band and UK tour, reclaiming the genre-blending soundtrack that defined a generation at The 1865 on Friday October 23.
Across 14 UK dates, Huey Morgan will perform the songs he wrote and produced with the fire and finesse that made them classics. Tickets are on sale now from the1865.live
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When Come Find Yourself landed in 1996, it didn’t simply arrive, it exploded. Amid Britpop’s euphoric blur, Fun Lovin’ Criminals carved their own lane with a cinematic, genre-hopping sound that fused rock ’n’ roll, funk, blues, soul, hip hop, jazz and Latin rhythms into something effortlessly cool and completely original.
Breakout single Scooby Snacks famed for sampling dialogue from Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction became an instant cult classic, propelling the album into the UK charts for nearly two years. From collecting glasses at Manhattan’s legendary Limelight nightclub to world tours and a raucous Pyramid Stage appearance at Glastonbury Festival in 1999, the Criminals quickly became one of the era’s most charismatic live acts, touring with U2 and collaborating with the late great B.B. King.
Huey Morgan said: “After 30 years, this record seems as fresh as it did when I first released it. I am so happy to be playing this again. Please come and check it out. It's gonna be awesome.
"It’s really trippy because you go back 30 years on anything and you’re a different person. When I made that record, those were all the stories that I had accumulated up to that point. I was 27.
"I’d been in the Marines, I’d been a bit of a troublemaker in New York City, and I was dealing with a lot of things in my life. It seemed to me that I was offloading a lot of that stuff into the lyrics."
Morgan’s voice remains unmistakable. A respected broadcaster and cultural commentator, he now hosts weekends on Virgin Radio and has built a parallel career as an author and television presenter renowned for his encyclopaedic knowledge of music and film.
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