“You know, I like to think there's a reason why Asian Dub Foundation have toured with people like Primal Scream, Radiohead, The Beastie Boys,” reflects ADF's  guitarist Steve Savale, aka Chandrasonic. “We may have taken our rhythms from the club scene but over the top of that we've always been very guitar driven, very anthemic, lots of shouting. That's what always distinguished us, especially from the rest of the so-called “Asian Underground”.

ADF were famously described by Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie as the best live act in the world. Small wonder, then, that, as was the case with Radiohead, The Beasties and Rage Against The Machine, ADF were specifically invited to tour with the Scream by the band themselves. Anyone who ever saw them can attest to the combustible potency of their “antifusion” of dub, banghra, hiphop, rock. And now, with Punkara (in which “punk” meets banghra), they've stormed back with an album in which everything about them onstage – their raucousness, the smiles on their faces as they kick out – shines through on record.