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About Me

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Ska band Damn Skippy formed in March 2004 and are based in Leeds in the UK.
The band set out to play a variety of styles of music from within the ska genre and from the beginning their songs involved a mix of ska, dub, punk, alternative rock and hip-hop.
The first gig was in front of a packed crowd at the intimate venue that is the Royal Park Cellars in Leeds. The band have since played all over England supporting bands such as The Buzzcocks, Mu330, Planet Smashers, Mustard Plug, Sonic Boom Six, Dead Pets, Roddy Radiation (of The Specials), and Catch-it Kebabs.

November 2007 saw the last of Damn Skippy in its current form but the band will be back in 2008 with a whole collection of new songs, new recordings and a new line-up!

***To contact Damn Skippy send a mail through MySpace or send an e-mail to [email protected]***

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/19/2005
Band Website: damn-skippy.co.uk
Band Members:

JAMES - Lead vocals, guitar.
EDDIO EXCITING - Sax, vocals, super-cool dancing.
SI WY LE SHMEX - Trumpet, vocals, hobbity dancing.
TIM "EARL" GRAY - Bass, vocals, curries, Buy Buy Buy, Sell, Sell, Sell
SAMMY STICKS - Drums, being nice to Tim.

8 Harp featuring Henry W, live at Josephs Well 2006
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Influences: Ska, alternative, punk, reggae and dub

Sounds Like:

Reviews

"With guitar riffs and drum rolls that are as much Metallica as Madness, and lyrics dripping with humour, you get a real sense of the energy and fun present in a band that clearly enjoy what they're doing... Damn Skippy, it seems, are Damn Good" - Vibrations Magazine

"Damn Skippy are the perfect party band" - Sandman Magazine

"If you like Aquabats, Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake, then you'll love this band" - Punktastic

"Brilliant music... Such melodic ska, bouncy and uplifting and light all at once" - Punkermentality

"A bit like the atmosphere towards the end of a family wedding disco, but with pork pie hats" - Tasty Gig Reviews

Type of Label: None

My Blog

End of an era...

Hello all, It is my duty to deliver some sad news. After three and a half years together, some of Damn Skippy will be moving on to pastures new. Two gigs are being planned to say farewell to the curr...
Posted by Damn Skippy on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:04:00 PST

Suggest a new title for our cd..

We've just booked some more studio time with the mighty skapunk uber producer Tim G for next year - and we're looking for suggestions for the title of our next cd. We called the last one Gloriously Sh...
Posted by Damn Skippy on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:01:00 PST

Damn Skippy - what in the blazes have they been up to?!

Hi everyone, hope you're all doing well! A few people have pointed out that things in the Skippy camp have been fairly quiet over the last couple of months. "What are you up to?", people ask. "When a...
Posted by Damn Skippy on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:56:00 PST

Studio time with Tim G!

Hey everyone, We've just booked five days studio time with producer Tim G for late February 2006. We'll be recording five tracks, the selection currently a topic of hot debate amongst the band, in wha...
Posted by Damn Skippy on Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:08:00 PST

Damn happy

Hey! Thanks to everyone who's been to see us in the last month or so - they've been some of the most enjoyable gigs we've played, largely due to amazing crowds who are really up for dancing along and...
Posted by Damn Skippy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Huge crowd witness Damn Skippy in Cleethorpes!

Here's a photo taken from the stage just before we started playing at the cleethorpes punk feast!it was 5.45 and the curtains were open!was a wicked gig in the end though!...
Posted by Damn Skippy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

wotcha

hey hey everyone. this is the new Damn Skipp! web myspace thing. We off to Bradford tonight to play with the awesome Sonic Boom Six. Cheers. sam
Posted by Damn Skippy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST