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Where both Gallows and their erstwhile grime-collaborator, Lethal Bizzle, fall down, is that neither has been able to capture the spit and sizzle of their respective live talents in the studio. Having recently toured the UK together, audiences up and down the country have been able to hear this bashed out live, and now they're putting it out as a single - but will it be able to come close to capturing that same live-gig power?

In short: no. There must’ve been plenty of back-slapping in managerial circles once this collaboration between the feted 'saviours' of UK punk and the grime survivalist was agreed on. Anyone who caught Gallows recent tour, where even a concussion-recovering Frank Carter could still put 90% of other frontment to shame, could appreciate 'Staring At The Rude Bois' for the shout-a-long brusqueness of it all. Hell, kids who’d probably never heard the The Ruts’ original were howling that chorus straight back at the stage.

But that kind of pick-up, plug-in, sing-along sensibility doesn’t necessarily make it work on record – it seems the boys from Watford and the MC from Walthamstow are still searching for that magic recording formula.Frank Carter, can usually be relied on to squawk, scream and roar with a satisfying level of two-finger bravado, but here he’s just left to bark yobbishly over Gallows unimaginative reworking of The Ruts’ riffs. Bizzle’s rapid fire delivery is reduced to mopping up afterwards in a cursory verse that feels not so much tacked on, as held on by some cheap supermarket own-brand sellotape, like some kind of afterthought.

One of Gallows main strength's came from the fact that the mainstream was forced to engage with them on their own terms; they couldn't ignore the furore surrounding this band, so they were forced to let some true hardcore punk escape onto their safe daytime airwaves. But this feels like Gallows chasing after that drivetime airplay. There'd be no reticence, no second thoughts, for XFM, Radio 1, hell, even Capital playing this track. After radio-safety is not what we want from Gallows - we never want the-powers-that-be to feel comfortable in playing tough, furious music.