Benji Webbe is on a tour bus. If he’s not in his native Newport, recording in his studio or in the hot tub his mates helped install in his garden using a digger to the bemusement of his neighbours, he’s generally on tour. It’s where he loves to be, which is lucky really, because fronting two bands it’s where you’ll more than likely find him. “I love it,” he says of life as a road dog. For the uninitiated, Dub War – today completed by guitarist Jeff Rose, bassist Richie Glover, and drummer Mikee Gregory – was Benji’s band before Skindred. They originally formed in 1993, split abruptly in 1999, reformed in 2014 and have just released their first album of new material since 1996. “We’re not after anything apart from being able to express ourselves,” says Benji of the impetus ...
