That "Difficult Second Album"....

We've finally made a start on recording the follow-up to "Bring It On". We've pretty much narrowed down the list of candidates to 11 songs for the album, so now its time to knuckle down and get recording. The new CD is (likely) to be be called Theatre Of War, and will be out ... when its finished basically!

We have one song done more or less entirely, and now have drums down for another 5.

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A little bit of Google-based fun...

One of the things with trying to promote any band on the internet is keeping an eye on search results and how easy it is for people to find your website. Having checked the "usual culprits" I thought I'd have a bit of a play with song titles, so I started with Google and the title of our first single, "How Come I'm Never Around"... the results weren't quite what I had predicted ...

Click the "Read More" link for the *ahem* slightly fruity results ...

Here's what the mighty Google suggested:

Apparently we're less popular than single, ugly, deformed Mongolians

Although the suggestions were even more alarming ...

Alarming though some of these are, my favourite is the last one.

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Video or "Retribution" from Mansfield Music Festival

We had a great time at Mansfield Music Festival. The weather held off ... right until the start of our set! So a massive thank you to everyone that stayed to watch us and didn't run for cover!

Here's a nice little video of "Retribution" from the gig. We've also put up some picture so check out the photos page!

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Photos from the Mansfield Music Festival

Mansfield Music Fesival

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Make it a Naked Sunday

Actual contents will almost definitely differ
from illustration

Ok - here's the deal. We're dangling a very small carrot here, but its all in a good cause. We have 100 tickets left to sell for the Mansfield Music Festival. IF we sell all 100 by Saturday, then SCrew's Rob Holsman has pledged to do the entire gig naked.


And pictures will be posted here.

What are you waiting for? BUY TICKETS!!!!

Email us to find out how buy tickets. You can also buy at http://www.childrensbraintumourevents.co.uk/ but those won't count towards the total Read more!

Next gig - Sunday 25th July at Mansfield Music Festival

Right people, this Sunday we're playing at Mansfield Music Festival in aid of Children's Brain Tumour Research, along with:

the marvellous Scarlett's Wake, Pray for Hayden,  Tennason, Tastebuds, Calling for Hereos, The Drains, Red Jester, Ton!te, Indie`cise, Quadraphenia (The Who Tribute). Here`s to Tradegy, Maffa Kings, Beetroot Kings, Tennason, Arcanite Repeaer NIKK MAGER, SEAN RUMSEY, JUSTIN TIMBERLIKE and KATY BULLOCK Band. 


PLUS
Facepainters, Stilt Wakers, Bike Stunts, Tribal Dancers  Street Dancers.


Tickets are £5 in advance, £7.50 on the day. Its going to be HUGE!! Be there, or miss out! You can get tickets by from us (email us) or from the even site http://www.childrensbraintumourevents.co.uk/ Read more!

Skeleton Crew play Grantham carnival - behold the horror!

Saturday 19th June, and Skeleton Crew will be playing at Grantham Carnival, in the beer tent naturellement. And to promote this twice in a lifetime event, we have a poster. Nothing special about that, but in case you're not in the locality we wanted to share this delightful monstrosity with you.

Not exactly your everyday Bone-R, I tip my (tiny) hat to Mr Byron for this utterly horrific yet delightful technicolour assault which cunningly juxstaposes the horror that even a basic clown conveys in 97% of the thinking populatation,with the carefree yet dismal outlook of Playdays and adds a liberal vanilla topping of information. Its like a cake with delicious icing turned upside down to reveal a base of biscuit, slugs and sh*t.

In the words of the UK's foremost 3D Video Industry expert  Andy Bellamy, "Its wrong, in all the best ways". And it is.

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Chris, Lewis and Lyndon get their sing on...UPDATED

Last night Skeleton Crew rocked Cryptfest in Nottinghamshire. The hottest night of the year so far also brought with it a nice ending to our year of touring the songs from Bring It On. During the time we spent recording the album, 3 different singers were with the band. Last night, we got all 3 on the stage together, with Lyndon, Lewis and Chris trading lines on All Or Nothing.

A fitting end (almost) to the Bring It On saga, as we are about to start recording the next album. Thank you so much guys, you made it a real blast!

S-Crew x

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Festival Season!

Just to let you know, its going to be a fun summer of big gigs for Skeleton Crew this year. We'll be playing at  Cryptfest on Sunday 23rd May, which is at Central in Nottingham, at the Duke of Wellington in Lincoln on the 19th June, Upload at Rescue Rooms in Nottingham on the 26th June and the Mansfield Music Festival on July 25th. 


All of these are going to be fantastic gigs and we're looking forward to sharing stages with some excellent bands too. Not all of the lineups are confirmed at the moment, but here'd where you can find more details:


Crypt Fest http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170871386091&ref=ts
Upload: http://www.last.fm/event/1386200+UPLOAD+FESTIVAL
Mansfield Music Festival: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106569809613&ref=ts

Hope to see you all there!

SCrew-x

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Happy New Year from Skeleton Crew!

We'd all like to say a massive thank you to everyone that has supported us throughout 2009. We have had a wonderful year; we've gained an amazing singer in Lyndon, our first album Bring It On has been released and received great reviews, we've played here there and everywhere (and here again), made loads of new friends and generally had an absolute blast. Thank you all so much.

So now to look forward to 2010! We have a lot planned ... some cracking gigs to kick the year off, and new material too. Some of you have already been guinea pigs for that ("Squeal for me Grantham") but once the festivities are out of the way, we're cracking on with recording our second album. There will be some new videos too, and all sorts of fun stuff, so stay tuned and we'll let you know more once there is more to ... let you know about.

Until then, stay safe, be happy, eat lots, be kind to your elders and don't run with a chainsaw.

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Change of venue for Laika Dog support gig in Nottingham

The gig with Tony Wright's Laika Dog on the 6th November has been moved from Seven to Central in Nottingham. Central is located on Huntingdon street, postcode is NG1 3LY for those relying on the small goblin-powered boxes to navigate yourselves there. Read more!

Battle of the Bands results!

Just a quick message to say thank you to everyone who supported us in the final of the Grantham Battle of the Bands competition. It was an excellent night, a real mixed bag of bands and a wonderful loud and full audience for everyone. We were awarded 2nd place in the end and got some tidy vouchers to spend on new sticks and strings. Which was nice. Read more!

Video footage from the Chance To Live Concert

Just finished cutting together the video footage from the Chance to Live concert. For those that missed this great day, 10 bands performed on Sunday 20th September at the Rescue Rooms in Nottingham, all to raise money for the neonatal unit and the Queens Medical Centre. And here's the footage of our set!

Thanks to Anthony and Katy for the camerawork!

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Through to the Final ....

Well, we made it through Round 2 of the Grantham Battle of the Bands. I am reliably informed by various Facebook posts (so it has to be true) that we won the heat. Which was nice. So a big thank you to everyone that came and supported us, especially those of you who inflicted damage to their livers and overdrafts in order to gain us your beer votes. Its much appreciated!

So we're through to the final now! The final will be held on Saturday 10th October. We believe it may well be at the Atrium, but we'll post the venue details here as soon as its all confirmed!

SCrew - x

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Skeleton Crew on Facebook

Just wanted to let all you people out there know that Facebook have finally released usernames for artist pages, so rather than tryng to remember an implausibly long web address, you can go straight to

www.facebook.com/skeletoncrewrocks

Beware though, and surf safe ... Facebook is largely populated by PAEDOs and EMOs, so that lovely italian boy/girl who has just befriended you is probably a fat 55 year old taxi driver from Boston who still ives with his mother and has pieces of bottled tourist in the woodshed. Stick with us though, kids, and you'll come to no harm ...

SCrew x

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