Us Skinnies are very excited and proud to announce that we are now part of Rob Da Bank’s magnificent Sunday Best label! It’s going to be an exciting year filled with more rum, dancing and no doubt festivals! Skinny’s debut album will follow the label’s recent releases by Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, David Lynch and The Cure. Long live the good ship Skinny and all who sail with her! Haul!
Meet the family here… www.sundaybest.net
Ahoy there dear Skinny friends. What a weekend we had down in the land of smugglers! The Ship Inn, Dymchurch, welcomed us with open arms as usual. We very much enjoyed the crazy dancing (and not just by myself), broken tankards and haggling at the Skinny Shop – so sorry we didn’t sell the anchor to the gentleman who’d travelled 100 miles to see us but we just couldn’t part with such a gem for that amount!! If you change your mind though…keep an eye out for our Skinny Shop on the website where the items will soon be displayed and available to purchase…
Anyway, many songs, shanties and swigging later I vaguely remember the crowd slowly dispersing and Skinnies making our way upstairs to a comfy bed for a lovely night’s sleep before our trip to Hastings for yet another round of skinny shenanigans. Ooof…heads were sore and hands were shaky when we awoke but we had love in our hearts and food in our bellies so we left in high spirits, set for Mule’s home town – Hastings.
After a cold afternoon of shopping in the Old Town (where I got a lovely suitcase in which I plan to carry my skinny dresses on our forthcoming adventures), we started to set up in The Stag. As friends arrived, new and old, we started to feel the energy return to our poor old bodies ready for round two…woohoo…a busy pub, successful sales at the shop and lots of singing from band and crowd…we had a blast! Emotions were high when the beautiful Rob sang Bye-Bye My Roseanna in a rip-roaring shanty session, which followed the Skinny sets.
What a brilliant weekend! So lovely to catch up with you all again. And to wake up to snow. Beautiful end to a beautiful weekend with beautiful people. Thank you especially to Allan, Star and Elaine for being such great hosts. We WILL return – oh yes, we will!
Lorna x
PS… (From Mule) If anyone has any pics of the weekend, please post them on FB for us so I can insert into this post. I forgot to take any for some reason?!
If you wake at midnight and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind or looking in the street. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie, Watch the wall, my Darling, while the gentlemen go by.
Five and twenty ponies trotting through the dark. Brandy for the parson, Baccy for the clerk, Laces for a lady, letters for a spy, And watch the wall, my darling, while the gentlemen go by.
We’re heading back down South for a couple of gigs over this weekend 3rd and 4th Feb.
Friday night sees Skinny return to The Ship Inn, Dymchurch, on around 9, free entry.
Saturday night we’re at The Stag in Hastings, on around 9, free entry.
Both gigs are without PA and crowd participation is actively encouraged! Get your singing voices ready!
See you down South,
Skinnies x
Mummified Cat at The Stag in Hastings
Fantastic festive news for Skinny, we’ve official been crowned hardest working band in all the UK! Amazing! I knew I was tired for a reason…
Check out the below from Xfm.co.uk, Music Week and Metro:
We’re having a Skinny Lister Christmas party on 10th December at The Birds Nest in Deptford next week. It’s free entry, we’ll be on at 10pm and if you show up you’ll most likely get in the video for our next single coming out early next year! All you need to do is show up and be your usual drunken selves. But beware…Skinny Sisters will be out in full swing so make sure you get your dancing shoes on!
The facebook event page can be found here for address etc.
Ooh check us out in the Sunday Times magazine today! We have to turn a blind eye to the fact they get Lorna’s name wrong… Laura? Who’s Laura? And apparently she ‘whispered the lyrics to Rollin’ Over’?? If you’ve ever heard us bang that one out, you’ll know there’s no whispering going on. Strange seeing as they were definitely at the radio session. They must have had too many sips on the old flagon when we weren’t looking..
Pics below, scans coming soon when my mac starts working again.
Mule
So, you Skinny followers may recall that we had a French adventure not long ago.
Yep, we stuck a GB sticker on the back of our lovely landy and set off to Dover where we boarded the Euro Tunnel with an aim to spread the diddle to folk in Lille and neighbouring town Roubaix. The sun shone on both sides of the Channel which made us very happy. We played diddle. Our audiences loved it and we decided we would have to go back. Here’s a video of our adventures. Hope you enjoy…. France, we WILL return!
Thank you for having us.
Love, Lorna xx
Skinny are playing The Slaughtered Lamb down Clerkenwell way (map) next Wednesday night around 9. Come down for rum, a full fleet of Skinny Sisters, drinking, dancing and singing at the tops of your voices! We will be playing brand new (never heard before by anyone outside the band) material as well you lucky devils! More details at Facebook.
See you there,
Mule x
Thanks to Rob Da Bank for posting the below montage of Camp Bestival pics set to our track ‘Colours’ – Check it out if you haven’t seen it!
Mule x
We’re playing France on Saturday woo hoo! Our first trip abroad, we’re all well excited. If you fancy a trip across the channel to see us, I believe Eurostar goes straight to Lille which is where we’ll be at. On stage at the below around 21.00.
Au revoir for now,
Mule x
