Hard Skin
{{Short description|English punk band}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2016}}
Hard Skin is an English punk group from Gipsy Hill, London who play in the early UK Oi! style.{{cite web|url=http://damagedgoods.co.uk/bands/hardskin|title=HARD SKIN – Damaged Goods|website=Damagedgoods.com}}
History
Hard Skin is an oi band 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).{{Cite web|url=https://consequence.net/aux-out/hard-skin-a-sly-eulogy-to-oi/|title=Hard Skin: A Sly Eulogy to Oi!|website=Consequence.net|accessdate=8 September 2020}} After Acland's death, he was replaced on drums by "Nipper" (Scott Stewart) for second album Same Meat Different Gravy in 2005,{{cite web|url=http://www.scannerzine.com/hardskin.htm|title=Scanner Zine|website=Scannerzine.com}} which like its predecessor was received positively in punk and Oi! circles despite (or perhaps partly because of) the band's parodic tendencies.{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/review/4113/hard-skin-same-meat-different-gravy|title=Hard Skin – Same Meat Different Gravy|website=Punknews.org}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/hard-skin-on-the-ballswhy-do-birds-suddenly-appear-119559|title=Hard Skin – On The Balls/Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear|website=Thelineofbestfit.com}} The album also featured an appearance by Gaye Advert.{{cite web|url=http://louderthanwar.com/hard-skin-oi-meets-girl/|title=Hard Skin: Oi! meets girl...|date=24 January 2013|website=Louderthanwar.com}}
Selected 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
- Do You Like Hospital Food EP, JT Classics, 2014
- South East Enders EP, JT Classics, 2020
=Singles/EPs=
- You Won't Get Better Than This, 2024
=Compilations and live=
- Live & Loud & Skinhead, Damaged Goods Records, 2002
- Greatest Hits Vol. 5, 2007
- 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
- Greatest Hits Vol. 7, 2016
- We're the Fucking Mustard, JT Classics, 2018
- Gold, JT Classics, 2024
References
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External links
- {{Discogs artist|Hard Skin (2)}}
- [http://newnoisemagazine.com/interview-hardskin-awful-bands-celebrated-margaret-thatcher-died/ 2013 interview]
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