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Criminals on mission to make friends.


Byline: Liz Owen

FUN Lovin' Criminals hit the boards of Aston Villa Leisure Centre in Birmingham on Thursday night with a mission - to ensure that everyone in the crowd loved them.

And they put a lot of effort into it. Huey was more humble than the Pope as he kept thanking the audience for their support and issuing countless "God Bless Yous".

In a set lasting one hour and 40 minutes, they blasted through hits and favourite album tracks including Fun Lovin' Criminals, Korean Bodega bo·de·ga  
n.
1. A small grocery store, sometimes combined with a wineshop, in certain Hispanic communities.

2. A warehouse for the storage of wine.
, King of New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 and two versions of Scooby Snacks Scooby Snacks are a fictional food item of unknown and undetermined origin. They are used as a form of bribery for the characters of Scooby-Doo and Shaggy (Norville Rogers) from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Scooby-Doo and its various spinoffs. .

Ever eager to entertain, the band had made a film of themselves running around Hawaii shooting everything in sight.

Unfortunately, the sound quality was appalling and many of what we can only assume were witty one-liners were lost in a haze.

The acting took a further turn when they stopped the music to play a scene from Carlito's Way, which also ended in a mock blood-bath.

Fun Lovin' Criminals are the kings of cool.

They look like a bunch of Puerto Rican Puer·to Ri·co  
Abbr. PR or P.R.
A self-governing island commonwealth of the United States in the Caribbean Sea east of Hispaniola.
 gangsters and hype up that image by telling you the songs about them robbing banks are "all true, I swear".

But beneath that rough image is a soft underbelly with ballads such as We Have All The Time In The World.

What makes them so loveable love·a·ble  
adj.
Variant of lovable.

Adj. 1. loveable - having characteristics that attract love or affection; "a mischievous but lovable child"
lovable
 is they clearly enjoy playing live and give it their best.

Liz Owen
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Publication:Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
Date:Dec 19, 1999
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