Beauty & Ruin is in large part the sound of this band

but night falls even in the brightest months

the down-picking stylings of The Marked Men

Concrete poetry without letters

The result is utterly extraordinary

CHUBBY & THE GANG - And There Was ... LP Musique Concrete Beauty & Ruin is inRed With Yellow Swirl Vinyl. Charlie Manning is Chubby & The Gang. The 30 something year old born and bred Londoner kicked off the project in 2019 with the intention of blending hardcore punk with the most infectious elements of '70s rock 'n' roll and doo wop. Charlie brought in a "gang" of rotating instrumentalists performing on the albums "Speed Kills" (2020) and "The Mutt's Nuts" (2021), both released through Partisan Records. Fast forward to now,