Hey, Rube! is Steve Cobby and Stephen Mallinder
Steel Tiger - Hey, Rube!
That special creole and sonic hybrid, Sheffield meets Hull, has surfaced again. A troubadour in trainers and electronic whizzer have teamed up, and not for the first time, but now under the moniker Hey, Rube! Please don't forget the punctuation it's important.
Steve Cobby, the Solid Doctor, the Fila Brazillian, and a man with four years of non-stop tunes on his hard-drive has been locked in mortal combat with Stephen Mallinder, once of Cabaret Voltaire, but always Mal to those who know. As a result a collection of tunes is forthcoming, bubbling away, not too sweet and pretty savoury.
Cobby and Mal have quite a bit of previous:
"First time I met the good Doctor was in the FON Studio with all those dubious characters of the time, he was learning his gigging chops with Bomb the Bass" (Mal).
Well as it turned out the two would continue to lock horns both in the UK, recording with both Filas under the guise of 'The Barney Mullhouse Project' (try sampling that backwards kids), and in Australia, where Mal had been deported and was running a radio station and the legendary 'Offworld' label.
Fast forward to the 21st Century and it's Hey, Rube! A rumble on the edge of town. Like Benson and Hedges they're probably bad for your long-term health, but sod it eh?
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