Chicken Skin Music: Northside

A bunch of scallies with names like Dermo, Speg, Cliff, Weg, Woz and Giblet, NORTHSIDE are sitting targets for the brewing Manc backlash. But, as JOHN ROBB argues, they’re simply too good to be written off. Their new single, ‘Take Five’, sounds like a chart cert and their forthcoming debut album, Chicken Rhythms, will clamp the critics up for good.