Set The Tone With… AKiMBO

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6th Oct 2025

Today for the 7th instalment of Set The Tone With… We are joined by AKiMBO. Welsh alt-rock band AKiMBO have that familiar style but done in a really unconventional way. As Crazy Pug Music told me they are equally likely to charm you as they are to bite your arm off!

Set The Tone With

The premise behind this post type is to get an insight into the daily lives of the bands that we love! We have given them some situations to attribute a song to and let us know why that song in particular is perfect!

You can check out the answers the band gave below, as well as jam out to the tunes they picked. Want to listen to the complete collection from this segment? Click the Spotify link below!

What is the perfect song for the gym?

Great energy. Driving drums and alternating strumming patterns.

Rise Against – Re-Education (Through Labor) (All Rights Are Retained By Rise Against)

What is your go to happy song, when you’re angry or sad?

Awesome sax and trumpet licks along with great soul vocals.

Sam & Dave – Hold On, I’m Comin’ (All Rights Are Retained By Sam & Dave)

The perfect song to put on while cooking?

Perfect BPM for getting things done in the kitchen. Good for focus and concentration.

Wunderhorse – Leader Of The Pack (All Rights Are Retained By Wunderhorse)

The wind down song at the end of a long day to get you to sleep?

Slow and delicate guitar picking with soft vocals. Delay effect on the main guitar is seriously relaxing.

Kings Of Leon – Closer (All Rights Are Retained By Kings Of Leon)

The song by AKiMBO that you are most proud of?

We put our blood and soul into this track and spent a lot of our time perfecting it.

AKiMBO – Cajun Summer (All Rights Are Retained By AKiMBO)

Your all time favourite rock song?

This is a song that means a lot to us as a band. It’s got amazing head-banging drive, with lush guitar licks. Arlandria is a rather simple song which uses a variety of guitar layers and drum patterns to give it that edge.

Foo Fighters – Arlandria (All Rights Are Retained By Foo Fighters)

The perfect song to set the mood on a date?

This song could make anyone fall in love. It’s almost as if you’re “Slow dancing slowly in a burning room”! Which is another amazing song which sets the mood for any date.

Jason Aldean – You Make It Easy (All Rights Are Retained By Jason Aldean)

A song by an amazing local band we might not know about?

We have gigged with these guys and they really know how to set the scene for a show! Addictive guitar riff and catchy lyrics.

Black Havana – Play Back The Time (All Rights Are Retained By Black Havana)

The perfect pre show song to amp you up?

We often get this song blasting when we are en route to play a gig. When it kicks in, it could get your ready to go to war!

Queens Of The Stone Age – You Think I Ain’t Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire (All Rights Are Retained By Queens Of The Stone Age)

A great song you think Fox Reviews Rock won’t have heard before?

Mo Lowda and the Humble have got a load of amazing tracks. This one, however captures their talent the most for us. The combination of the killer bassline and the effect guitar licks punch straight through the speakers.