Hard Skin

Hard Skin is an English punk group from Gipsy Hill, London who play in the early UK Oi! style.^[1]

History

Hard Skin was founded in 1996 and their first album Hard Nuts and Hard Cunts appeared that year. The band were: bassist "Fat Bob" (Sean Forbes of Wat Tyler), guitarist and lead vocalist "Johnny Takeaway" (Ben Corrigan of Thatcher On Acid) and drummer "Nosher" (Chris Acland of indie/Britpop band Lush).^[2] After Acland's death, he was replaced on drums by "Nipper" for second album Same Meat Different Gravy in 2005,^[3] which like its predecessor was received positively in punk and Oi! circles despite (or perhaps partly because of) the band's parodic tendencies.^[4]

Third album proper On The Balls was released in 2013, alongside companion album Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear featuring alternate versions of its songs voiced by female vocalists, including Joanna Newsom, Manda Rin, Miki Berenyi, Beth Jeans Houghton, Debbie Smith, Alela Diane, Alison Mosshart, Beki Bondage, Marion Herbain, Roxanne Clifford, and Liela Moss.^[5] The album also featured an appearance by Gaye Advert.^[6]

Discography

Albums

Hard Nuts and Hard Cunts, London: Broken Rekids, 1996
Same Meat Different Gravy, Household Name Records, 2005
On the Balls, JT Classics, 2013
Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear, JT Classics, 2013

Compilations and live

Live & Loud & Skinhead, Damaged Goods Records, 2002
Where the Fuckin Mic - live at the Grosvenor 2005, Fat Punks Records (HSKIN01), 2009
We're the Fucking George JT Classics, 2011
We're the Fucking Business JT Classics, 2015

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References

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