Skinflick

BLOG: My time in Skinflick by Duncan Black

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[Neil Crud] – I’m not sure if this was ever published, it was written somewhere around 2013. Sadly no longer with us, Duncan Black was a major contributor to the link2wales website, providing reams of information, helping edit articles and policing the then very spiky message board! What follows is a very entertaining and insightful look back at his time in and around Bangor’s industrial cyber-punk outfit, Skinflick.

CONTENTS:
Early days. Way back in the mists of time…
The Rise and fall of the Bangor music scene 1991-1997
Duncan Black joins Skinflick – 1998
Skinflick gets serious! – 2000-2001
‘The Legendary Breeding Ground gig’ and ‘What happened to Ellen?’ 2001
‘The Two Ton Loser CD’ (released by Zero Tolerance)
Good times, bad times 2002-2005
The first tour with the new line-up 2002
Matt Lucas mentions Skinflick on Telly! 2003?
Gareth Horne replaces Duncan Black on guitar 2003/2004?
The ‘Wave-Gotik-Treffen’ festival in Liepzig, Germany, 2004
Why I left the band
What’s it like to work with Justin?More

NEW LP – Skinflick – We Could Have Reached For The Stars But We Reached For Our Dicks

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We live in a mainstream world of music where chances are not taken and everyone makes happy stuff that isn’t going to challenge you. That’s what you’re led to believe if you only listen to what they want you to listen to. 6music offered us an alternative to the dirge of Radios One and Two when it launched in 2002… Their definition of alternative doesn’t leave a lot to the imagination these days… Too scared to take real chances, too scared to lose listeners by playing something really alternative, and not allowed to play protest music or anything director-general Tim Davie doesn’t approve of.More

NEW RELEASE – Emissaries Of Syn – Compliance Or Defiance Compilation (Bonus Tracks)

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Those grinding crusty punks of Conwy – Emissaries Of Syn have a new (old) release. They’ve issued bonus tracks previously unavailable on bandcamp.
Slate, as some of you will recall is a retake on their ‘hit’ The Slate Is Not Clean which is about the workforce at Penrhyn Castle (Bangor). In the late 19th Century they were virtually enslaved and paid in tokens that could only be spent at the castle’s chosen outlets. Here, the track has been cleverly doctored by Philadelphia’s Carl Kavorkian aka Manikineter to great effect.

The band looked closer to home for Ethics and requested that Bangor’s industrial waste master, Skinflick warped their live favourite The Only Way Is Ethics. Again, to great effect… It’ll blister your ears.

Emissaries Of Syn have a track or two coming out on compilation albums soon, and they have recently demoed new material with a threat of release to darken the coming months.

NEW RELEASE – Skinflick – The Dead Evolved

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Bangor’s unrelenting dogs of gore Skinflick have a brand new release in time for Halloween. ‘The Dead Evolved’ is seven hellish tracks long and guaranteed to give you nightmares.
It follows on from July’s aptly titled ‘The Year Of The Fuck’
This could be a trick, and it’s certainly a treat…

Available now…

NEWS – Skinflick Go Digital

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Bangor industrial-scary-monster-noise-mutants Skinflick have released the latter part of their back catalogue on all digital platforms… (you know; the ones where the bands get a fraction of a penny per play).
Formed in 1992 with head-murderer Justin Skinflick as the mainstay through the darkest of ages alongside even darker band members, they have a wealth of material in their rancid closet.
Five years ago they re-released their back catalogue on Bandcamp (which is where you should be heading right now) – you can now however find them on Spotify, Deezer, Amazon and in the Sex Shops of Soho….
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