{"id":16470,"date":"2021-09-01T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=16470"},"modified":"2021-08-31T18:20:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T18:20:13","slug":"chubby-the-gang-the-mutts-nuts-partisan-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=16470","title":{"rendered":"Chubby &#038; The Gang &#8211; &#8216;The Mutt&#8217;s Nuts&#8217; (Partisan Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/81xgP1dljxS._AC_SL1200_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16471 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/81xgP1dljxS._AC_SL1200_-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/81xgP1dljxS._AC_SL1200_-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/81xgP1dljxS._AC_SL1200_-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/81xgP1dljxS._AC_SL1200_-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/81xgP1dljxS._AC_SL1200_-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/81xgP1dljxS._AC_SL1200_-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/81xgP1dljxS._AC_SL1200_-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/81xgP1dljxS._AC_SL1200_.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Well, First things first Chubby ain&#8217;t Chubby no more! Nope, that&#8217;s one thing since the debut album came out.\u00a0 Frontman has become a lean mean frontman machine and he looks the picture of health as a result and tie that in with the super vibrant sleeve artwork you just know you&#8217;ve done something right picking up this bad boy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as you asked nicely I got the gatefold album with the lyric book and the 3D artwork n glasses &#8211; and very nice they are as well. I trust Speed didn&#8217;t kill you after all? At least some haven&#8217;t been twiddling their thumbs during the lockdowns Chubbys got match fit and brought a bag full of tools, sorry tunes to do this job properly.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y8x2knYCpLc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now the main course is fifteen varied tunes from the real world of Charlie &#8216;Chubby&#8217; Manning and his band of merry men and woman.\u00a0 The Mutt&#8217;s Fuckin Nuts (what it should have been called) gets underway with a throbbing pulsating barnstorming title track &#8216;The Mutt&#8217;s Nut&#8217;.\u00a0 Sure it takes off exactly where &#8216;Speed Kills&#8217; took us and that 100 miles an hour stories of the streets walked by Chubby and The Gang.\u00a0 &#8216;It&#8217;s Me Who&#8217;ll Pay&#8217; is a supercharged boogie-woogie with plenty of tasty guitar licks for good measure.\u00a0 But hang on kids it&#8217;s not all NWOBHC because &#8216;Coming Up Tough&#8217; has a Malcolm Young riff nailed to a Powerage backbeat and bass throb and what an excellent slab of hobnailed pub Rock it is too. The subtle melody and backing vocals are a joy that shows these yobs have depth as well as talent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think Charlie and co give a flying fuck for pigeon holes and have indeed expanded their sound and are dancing behind the beat if it so needs it and they show restraint and plenty of style on this big second album.\u00a0 You get a sense that Charlie knows who he is and what his band are about and will dance to his own tune and by adding songs like &#8216;Take Me Home To London&#8217; and the closing &#8216;I Hate The Radio&#8217; shows there are many strings to the Chubby Bow and the passion is loud and clear especially on the heartfelt &#8216;Take Me Home&#8217; like a barroom modern-day Billy Bragg with attitude.\u00a0 These slower (dare I say It) mature numbers sit really well amongst the more familiar swift kick to the coin purse tunes you might expect. Especially the slow grinding blues of &#8216;White Rags&#8217; that&#8217;s lashed to the wild n reckless &#8216;Overachiever&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FSNoehSnEQo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The excitement is amped up on the harmonica honking rocket ride of\u00a0&#8216;Someone&#8217;s Gunna Die&#8217; and the equally out of control thumper &#8216;Getting Beat Again&#8217; but as we head into the home straight we go on a jazzy little ditty of &#8216;Lifes Lemons&#8217; that commits to the rollercoaster feel of the record as it climbs up then gently drops before heading for the biggun or so you think but the organ just rolls on and the guitars pick their way to the end through the shimmering crash cymbals to &#8216;Lightning Don&#8217;t Strike Twice&#8217; and after its false opening it&#8217;s slide guitars galore as we slam on to the final hurrah and album highlight and fine backbeat bedfellow to the Libertines best work through a Ray Davies style pop song and then we&#8217;re done.\u00a0 fifteen songs that fly by in a brave yet safe space.\u00a0 Chubby &amp; The Gang have the world at their feet,\u00a0 It&#8217;s theirs if they want it and as long as they keep writing records packed with top tunes then I&#8217;m in and I&#8217;ll enjoy this one for the next twelve months and then we can all get together and do this again. Fuckin&#8217; top record get it!<\/p>\n<p>Buy <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2WErjqw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: Dom Daley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, First things first Chubby ain&#8217;t Chubby no more! Nope, that&#8217;s one thing since the debut album came out.\u00a0 Frontman has become a lean mean frontman machine and he looks the picture of health as a result and tie that in with the super vibrant sleeve artwork you just know you&#8217;ve done something right picking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5978,305],"class_list":["post-16470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-chubby-the-gang","tag-partisan-records","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16472,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16470\/revisions\/16472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}