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Live At Lee's

by Skank Agenda

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1.
Backwards 00:30
2.
Folsom Prison Blues 02:37
3.
Money Song 02:14
4.
Alarm Clock 02:05
5.
Ruined Education 02:08
6.
Queen Mum 03:01
7.
Horronation Street - The Common Place 02:08
8.
Your Fist My Face - The Common Place 02:07
9.
Alarm Clock - The Common Place 02:44
10.
Sunglasses - The Common Place 01:52
11.
One Rule - The Common Place 03:36
12.
Queen Mum - The Common Place 03:28
13.
Ruined Education - The Common Place 02:32
14.
Money Song - The Common Place 02:24
15.
All I'm Asking For - The Common Place 02:55
16.
Ruined Education - Halloween 2007 02:25
17.
All I'm Asking For - Halloween 2007 02:48
18.
Horronation Street - Halloween 2007 02:14
19.
Money Song - Halloween 2007 02:41
20.
The Idols Of March - Demo June 2008 02:19
21.
Gas Mask - Demo June 2008 03:33
22.
It's Political - Demo June 2008 02:48
23.
Way Back When - Demo June 2008 02:56
24.
One Rule - Demo January 2010 03:57
25.
Cut And Paste - Demo January 2010 05:11
26.
Numbers Game - Demo January 2014 02:22
27.
Educating Richard - Demo January 2014 02:10
28.
Me And George Clooney - Demo January 2014 02:18
29.
For You - Demo February 2014 01:54
30.
Dog Operation - Demo February 2014 01:51
31.
Gary Oldman - Demo February 2014 02:24
32.
We'd Like To Apologise For The Poor - Demo February 2014 03:35
33.
Stuck On Destroy - Demo February 2014 03:08
34.
Kids Of The Caribiners - Demo February 2014 02:03
35.
Atonement - Demo February 2014 02:20
36.
Pete On Drugs - Demo February 2014 03:31

about

I don't think I ever felt like we were ready to gig. Even after 10 years of gigs I always felt under rehearsed (which sometimes we were and sometimes we were not) and unprepared. Every gig felt like it was running away from any control I may have thought we had and it often felt and sounded (I imagine but usually it was impossible to hear anything on stage really) like a piano falling down a set of stairs.
John always instilled much confidence by never knowing what any song was by name and firmly believing he didn't know the song or how it went - which was always useful especially if he started the song.
He did impart a pearl of knowledge once though when he saw I was struggling with nerves and he told me that we were the best band in the world at being Skank Agenda.
I used to favour a band practice on the day of a gig for a local gig. If we played well in practice we were often sloppy at the gig and conversely a bad practice would make us play tighter at the gig. Whichever way it worked out "at least we were having fun".

Loads of our gigs were filmed (including our very first) but the audio is terrible (not that it's much better on these recordings!) But unbelievably we only have recordings of the 2 gigs here on audio.

We tried to record the final 3 gigs we had with Knox on drums but things went wrong each time - the first time we forgot to press record, the second time when I checked the recording it was totally blank. We knew Lee our friend wouldn't fuck it up though when he came to record Knox's very last on our annual Halloween gig at The Pack Horse (Leeds) How wrong we were - the recording revealed that the first two thirds of our set had his Halloween playlist for inbetween bands recorded too!
This is probably us at our most exciteable and messiest - John, Knox, Nick and me. I believe this may have been the evening when I reversed into a taxi in Nick's car after the gig because the amps were blocking my view and the cops were called and I was breathalised (all clear!)
We probably had Captain Hotknives or Miranda or Sounds Of Swami or one of Knox's Misfits covers bands on too.

Lee offered to record us at his home studio (in Leeds) to make up for it so that was nice and those are the songs "Live At Lee's" and the last time we played with Knox. I don't remember much about the recording aside from trying to record the vocals lying on the floor because I'd heard that's what Pavarotti did and that it was the first time I played a Telecaster.

The Common Place (Now Wharf Chambers, Leeds) gig on Che Guevara's birthday was one of a handful we played with Aid on drums - Just me, John and Aid - and by the sound of it probably us at around our tightest and my hair at it's biggest. Both Nick and future drummer Mickey were in the crowd.

The Not Scene Not Herd Demo's were recorded over the space of 2 years in which we failed to make a record but did a fair few gigs with a lineup of John, Aid and me. They were not recorded in Leeds (unlike every other song on here) but in Bentham (where we slept in a barn above the practice space and John introduced us to his game Paper Golf) and Bradford (in the Playhouse basement) By the time we got round to making the album in October of 2010 Mickey was now on the drum stool.

It's a shame we don't have any recordings of us with Mickey and back as a four piece but we don't so that's that.

The Hate This Shit demos were recorded in my front room (Leeds) with just me and John usually on a weekday morning. Me eating porridge. John refusing porridge and criticising the dust on the kitchen light. By this stage we were back to being a 3 piece John, Nick and me and we had been playing totally acoustic - no amps, no mics for about a year
which for the first time in a decade was actually going down well with audiences and was our busiest time as a band. It goes without saying we have no audio recordings of any of these gigs.
Then we broke up.

The recording quality of these recordings is variable and so you might have to turn the volume up and down a bit as you listen. Unfortunately the Common Place gig songs have some skips and blips in them too ! Sorry.
The quality of the songs is also variable!
Anyway there are some fine and rare old moments in here which I have really enjoyed hearing for the first time in years.
I hope you will too.
Peace
Alex

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released January 28, 2022

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One Step Outside Records is a tiny label based in Leeds, UK created in 2004 to put out music by punk band Skank Agenda. We are also the home now to Bad Dylan, No Ta, DAVES, Wet Camper, Ben Fox and Haest. Created and run from a shoebox in a cupboard by Alex ... more

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