Post by STRUNG OUT UNICORN on Apr 1, 2006 10:39:33 GMT -5
This band is just...ridiculously good. They're an Oi that emerged in to the London Oi scene back in the mid 90's. Here's a review of the new album "Same Meat, Different Gravy" (their last release)...you should all read it, it's written by one of the members and it's funny as shit.
"It all began years ago in Millwall, Sarf London by three geezers who all liked the beer, a game of darts and a bit of how's ya fatha with the birds. We wus all great at the first two but the birds were a bit of a problem so we decided to form a band because there woz some Student wankers who drank in the same pub and woz in a band and they always had quality totty on their arm. None of us had played before but it was simple. We woz on the dole except Takeaway who had the odd cash in hand job on the fruit and veg stall of his old man, so we practiced everyday until we woz as good as the Rejects. If truth be told we knicked the odd riff here and there but that's just facking nit picking. Me and Takeaway woz Skinz and Nosher was a punk and together we made Oi Oi music. Every track written had to be anthem and over the course of the early 90's we wrote the classic debut album 'Hard Nuts and Hard Cunts'. It woz the work of genius and woz loved by everyone from skinheads to skunks, my muuva to crusties in Hackney, although we try not to sell records to them cause they are smelly cunts. They are banned from all our gigs though cause if you get more than 2 in a room at any one time, you need to get the fumeagators in.
Anyway the album came out of Helen of Oi and it sold nearly 100,000 copies. It was a runaway facking juggernaut and we woz almost rich on the royalties and became very facking drunk and a bunch of cunts. We never got any gigs together 'cause it seemed like too much of a pain in the arse. After a few years of the good life, Nosher got caught red handed doing a bank job and got put inside. He got non stop hassle for being a punk and ended up getting stabbed to death over whether Sham 69 were better than the clash. Course they are. Jimmy never sold out and is a spokesman for the working class and Strummer is a middle class preacher man for the middle class. Which side are you on?? If you say the Clash-stop reading this and give all Hard Skin records back to us to resell for more dosh.
So that was that, until a few years later we met Nipper (a homeless tramp juice drinker from Scotland) and he told us we should start facking playing again and stop being old and fat. So we toured the world and elsewhere with Nipper behind the kit. Belgium, Japan and Tottenham. Every gig was a mass of skinz and punx going facking mental to the oi oi sounds of three pissed up cunts. It was top banana.
Next was to record a new album called 'Same Meat, Different Gravy'. Basically it's the same meat but with different gravy, if you know what i mean? It was recorded down the road at Crystal Palace because it seemed like a facking pain to go all the way to London Bridge again.
All you cunts will say it ain't as good as the first album but we don't give a toss - it's the facking bees knees or the elephants bollox. Hard Skin is about having a laugh and having a say and that's what we are doing.Having a laugh and having a say. So stop thinking and start drinking......."
"It all began years ago in Millwall, Sarf London by three geezers who all liked the beer, a game of darts and a bit of how's ya fatha with the birds. We wus all great at the first two but the birds were a bit of a problem so we decided to form a band because there woz some Student wankers who drank in the same pub and woz in a band and they always had quality totty on their arm. None of us had played before but it was simple. We woz on the dole except Takeaway who had the odd cash in hand job on the fruit and veg stall of his old man, so we practiced everyday until we woz as good as the Rejects. If truth be told we knicked the odd riff here and there but that's just facking nit picking. Me and Takeaway woz Skinz and Nosher was a punk and together we made Oi Oi music. Every track written had to be anthem and over the course of the early 90's we wrote the classic debut album 'Hard Nuts and Hard Cunts'. It woz the work of genius and woz loved by everyone from skinheads to skunks, my muuva to crusties in Hackney, although we try not to sell records to them cause they are smelly cunts. They are banned from all our gigs though cause if you get more than 2 in a room at any one time, you need to get the fumeagators in.
Anyway the album came out of Helen of Oi and it sold nearly 100,000 copies. It was a runaway facking juggernaut and we woz almost rich on the royalties and became very facking drunk and a bunch of cunts. We never got any gigs together 'cause it seemed like too much of a pain in the arse. After a few years of the good life, Nosher got caught red handed doing a bank job and got put inside. He got non stop hassle for being a punk and ended up getting stabbed to death over whether Sham 69 were better than the clash. Course they are. Jimmy never sold out and is a spokesman for the working class and Strummer is a middle class preacher man for the middle class. Which side are you on?? If you say the Clash-stop reading this and give all Hard Skin records back to us to resell for more dosh.
So that was that, until a few years later we met Nipper (a homeless tramp juice drinker from Scotland) and he told us we should start facking playing again and stop being old and fat. So we toured the world and elsewhere with Nipper behind the kit. Belgium, Japan and Tottenham. Every gig was a mass of skinz and punx going facking mental to the oi oi sounds of three pissed up cunts. It was top banana.
Next was to record a new album called 'Same Meat, Different Gravy'. Basically it's the same meat but with different gravy, if you know what i mean? It was recorded down the road at Crystal Palace because it seemed like a facking pain to go all the way to London Bridge again.
All you cunts will say it ain't as good as the first album but we don't give a toss - it's the facking bees knees or the elephants bollox. Hard Skin is about having a laugh and having a say and that's what we are doing.Having a laugh and having a say. So stop thinking and start drinking......."
