At Thursday's Ruby Lounge gig the fun lovin' crowd was just as hard to define....office legends with  loosened ties, model types, dripping with gloss, young parents grooving with the baby-sitter's mates....  

Huey and his guys got them all head-nodding and arm-cranking like one big happy family.  

Previously one of the '90s biggest hell raisers, FLC were  behind some of the funkiest anthems of the decade. The instantly memorable 'Scooby Snacks', the eponymous theme tune 'Fun Lovin' Criminals' and the cheekily penned 'Big Night Out' - an ode to the many women that  the band reputedly 'acquainted themselves with' in their early days of stardom.  

These old favourites and more were delivered up last night, carrying a rawness and earthiness that you just don't hear in their studio sound. The band has a commanding presence on stage, (in-between the riffs and banter they could easily pass for hard-as-nails door-staff) but it's their front-man that we're all looking at. 

Source: Manchester Confidential