Hot punk band Chubby and The Gang are back with new track ‘Lighting Don’t Strike Twice’ which will form part of a AA-side 7″ release, out 28th May via Partisan.
Frontman Charlie ‘Chubby’ Manning offers: “I wrote this song about social inequality. Not mine but the people I saw around me.
“I feel like the whole premise of poverty is presented like this game in which if you play your cards right you can escape.
“In reality, it’s more like playing a game of dice when they’re loaded against your favour. Constantly being struck by lightning and being told ‘that it will never happen again’.
“I remember witnessing someone’s telephone voice where they had to change their voice when conducting business or applying for jobs so they don’t come across as if they are from a lower class.
“I wrote the last verse about that because it disgusted me that in a system supposedly created on meritocracy a human being has to change their identity to try and shake unemployment.
“I’ve had very few jobs that required me to go for an interview. No one really cares who you are when you drive a minicab or lay out cables so I’m lucky in that sense. But many people aren’t.”
