Skindred’s Benji Webbe: “What do I put longevity down to? I can’t get that magic anywhere else…”

The moment that kick-started Benji Webbe’s life changing for the better didn’t seem positive at the time. It happened at Reading Festival 2018, following a triumphant main stage set from Skindred, a band with a distinguished pedigree when it comes to live performances. Moments after leading 40,000 fans through closing track Warning, complete with the T‑shirts-over-the-head revelry of trademark move ​‘The Newport Helicopter’, the frontman was greeted by his hulking son, Barrington, whose words of praise were tempered by a rather sobering observation.  “He said it was a killer show but that I looked like a fat fuck up there,” Benji recalls today. ​“I was having a good vibe but then this fucking prick kid of mine telling me I need to stop...

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