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Blazin Squad reforming on back of ‘Love Island’ exposure
By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 20 July 2017
The good old Blazin Squad are coming back! Yep, Kenzie, Strider, Flava, Bob, Mitch, The Dude, Whatsisname, Who-ja-ma-flip, MC Duffle Coat and Rocky B will be reforming to entertain the world once again.
Well some of them will be. Rocky B – aka Marcel Somerville – will definitely be there, I know that. Because he’s on this ‘Love Island’ thing you all keep talking about, and it’s that which has prompted the latest move to reunite the Squad.
We know all this because Squad member Ollie Georgiou – who performed as, I don’t know, maybe he was MC Duffle Coat – has confirmed the mooted reunion to Metro. He said: “It will be the original line up. Obviously there’s ten of us, I’m not sure if all ten of us will be doing it, but there will be a good chunk doing it”.
And who can ask for more than a “good chunk”? No one, that’s who. Georgiou adds: “It’s been a long while since a lot of us have been on stage and toured. Fingers crossed! We’ve had the offers from promoters so, hopefully, if it can come together then all good”.
The reformation is set to actually occur in August at a pop festival in Dagenham, but other dates and maybe even new music are being promised. “If we do do a tour and start getting it all together then there will be new music, we wouldn’t rely on old stuff”, Georgiou says, adding of the new sounds “a lot of it would be done by Marcel because he’s very creative”.
And famous, of course, let’s not forget he’s now famous.
