Biography – MERCENARY SKANK
(Taken from the book – This Patch of Land) (pics Andrew Tunnicliffe / public domain)
Another Rhyl punk band making noises in the early 1980s was Mercenary Skank, mention the name to Steve Allan Jones and he becomes very wistful, ‘I really hoped this band would get somewhere. They had it all, good songs, a style, charisma. I saw them at the Greyhound in Fulham and they were fantastic. Fuck the stupid industry for missing them.’More