New Tour Dates for September and October!

After a bit of a break over the summer holidays, we’re hitting the road again in September with a couple of dates in Nottingham including The Salutation’s yearly Pirate Night (always a favourite) and then a couple fo dates in Grantham and one in Horncastle for October.

Here’s what we have so far, but be sure to check the Tour Dates section for full info!

Sat 01 September 2012 Hucknall Chequers Inn 8:00pm Map  With support from Grand Ultra
Sat 08 September 2012 Nottingham Salutation Inn 8:00pm Map Pirate Night at the Sal
Sat 06 October 2012 Grantham Castlegate 8:00pm Map
Sat 13 October 2012 Horncastle Old Nick’s Tavern 8:00pm Map
Sat 20 October 2012 Grantham The Playhouse 8:00pm Map Supporting The Spinal Taps

Behind the Theatre – Part III


And now its all done. Its the day of the launch and I’m sitting here trying to concentrate, but I’m excited. I’m also sad because this part of the journey is done. Its been one hell of a ride – an exhausting but exhilarating one – and now it’s time to move back into gigging mode, but only after our moment of ludicrous extravagance with the “Showtime” launch party. I’m impossibly tired – my ears and eyes are exhausted and my back aches from the hours in front of the computer – but the end result sounds good. I’m longing to veg out in front of the TV with kebab and catch up on the 3 months worth of unwatched Fringe and Supernatural that waits inside my TiVo box, and I know I’ll have to switch into “video editor” mode at some point too. But even last night I had to content myself with a bath and a couple of hours of guitar practice as I learn how to play things I recorded months ago and have since forgotten. Continue reading

Behind the Theatre Part II

Although recording and mixing are what most people think of as the main jobs of producing a CD, its certainly not everything by a long shot. In the background there’s a whole load of decisions to be made and work to be done about what the damn thing is supposed to look like. While all the stuff covered in Part I was going on , we spent over a year trying to get someone to do the artwork for us. If I have learnt one thing it’s that even if you wave money at them, artists are really difficult to cajole into actually doing work! There were certainly moments where we thought we’d be joining Spinal Tap and Metallica in the “Black Album” territory. Or possibly “Mauve Album” Eventually though, local tattoo artist Bobby Long produced the version of Bone-R that adorns the cover, and Graham started the rest of the artwork, as well as the CD art. Continue reading

Behind the Theatre … Part I

With Theatre of War finally here, it seems like a good time to look back at how it all came together …

The plus side of recording your own albums is that you have the luxury of time. The downside is that with an almost infinite supply of time to tweak and refine, its almost impossible to say when something will be finished! We started the first recordings for this CD late summer 2010 with Moon On The River, which was the first song Lyndon had presented to the band. We did this song in more or less one go over a couple of weekends, as well as recording the drums for “Say Goodbye” at the same time, because we wanted to catch the vibe of the song before we started gigging it and before it became fixed in stone and we could still experiment with the arrangement… Continue reading

Skeleton Crew new CD Theatre Of War to be released 27/02/2012

We finally have an official release date – Skeleton Crew’s second album will be out on Monday 27th February 2012! The album will be available as both physical CD and digital download from our webstore, and also via iTunes and Amazon.com in due course. Those of you desperate to get your grubby little mitts on it will be able to pre-order from the first week of Feb.

We’ll be kicking off our 2012 gigs on the 3rd March at Old Nick’s in Horncastle and will be holding an album launch “soiree” at the The Castlegate in Grantham on Saturday March 10th, with a load of additional dates also live on our shows page. We’re looking forward to throwing a “Theatre” launch event /gig for our Nottingham friends in the very near future too, we’re just trying to get a date and venue sorted, so stay tuned!

The tracklisting will be as follows:

  1. Theatre of War
  2. 4-Letter Word
  3. Retribution
  4. Kiss Kiss
  5. Moon On The River
  6. Opressor
  7. Obsessive Ex
  8. Into The Light
  9. Twenty7
  10. Say Goodbye