1 Mark Foggo's Skasters - Skadansk
2 The Loafers - It's so Easy
3 The Hotknives - W.L.N.
4 King Hammond - King Hammond Shuffle
5 Maroon Town - City Riot
6 Off The Shelf - Off The Shelf Tonight
7 The Riffs - Blind Date
8 Mr. Review - Another Town
9 The Skandal - Driving Me to Drink
10 Judge Dread - One Eyed Lodger
11 Pick It Up - Ska Sax
12 The Pork Hunts - Woman
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Hi! great blog! do you know something about the band called "the skandal"? their song included here is one of my favourites but never got any info about them
ReplyDeleteI don't know anything at all.
ReplyDeleteThere were at least 4 bands called either The Skandal or The Skandals so even doing a search brings up almost nothing and the little it does bring up makes it impossible to discern which of these bands they're talking about.
I would like to know more about them myself so I'll keep searching for anything I can find on them.
Hi, I was the drummer with the Skandal. We were based in Southend on Sea UK, and approached for the original pressing by Link records. We only recorded a couple of tracks, and were mostly on the live scene. A few of us went on to play some live gigs with The Skadows, before we went our separate ways. As far as I know, I'm the only one still playing.
ReplyDeleteHi ! I don't found this one in the link, Licensed and fifteen ok, but not this one, is it normal ? Can you re-up this one please ?
ReplyDeleteHey Mark..... howzit going?
ReplyDeleteI'm Lee... the lead singer of The Skandal.
As Mark said, we were doing fairly well locally in Southend but split up around 1989 intending to reform and try a little something different from Ska.
I still see Steve the Keyboard player and Damien the Sax player regularly. Dave the Guitarist is still around and I think Carl the bassist is talking to some of the old guys again too. We were 18 and 19 when we recorded that song. It was a £100 demo that we sent to Link records but they wanted us to put it on that LP the next week. We wanted the exposure so said yes.
More.....
The Skandal were formed in about 1986 on the back of bands created by School friends from The Deanes school in Thundersley Essex.
ReplyDeleteThe original members of the earliest line up included Damien Chambers on Sax, Steve Fairchild on Keyboards and Carl Stockley on Bass (Whom wrote Driven to Drink... which is the real name of the song, the recording company got it wrong).
They were joined by Lee Day on Vocals and Harmonica, Mark Hall on Drums and Dave Green on guitar. Some guest Brass musicians were also invited to join for gigs and recording.
The band enjoyed a growing following just prior to a non emerging Ska revival predicted by The Sun newspaper, but problems finding venues, pressures of holding down jobs (we were on about 17 or 18 back then) and some arguments within the band led us to take a break promising to reform and try something new.... bu tthat never emerged.
As a singer I played with a few bands in my early 20s but never rekindled the laughs and excitement of playing with the Skandal.
ReplyDeleteI'd love the band to play together again one more time but doubt that'd ever happen.
Steve still has his Hammond organ, Dame is enjoying watching his son have Sax lessons and I'm now enjoying help my 6 year old son learn guitar (I'm 45 this year...far removed from that fresh faced 17 year old wannabe rock star). One day I'll join a band again. We did record one more song...."Here come the Sheep". I've still got a copy of it on tape somewhere.
One more post as I forgot to tick a box to allow emails to arrive.
ReplyDeleteMark.... if you read this drop me a line mate.
I live in Tiptree near Colchester these days but regularly see Damien and Steve.
Lee Day.... lead singer of The Skandal
Lee! Excellent to hear from you. I bumped in Damien of all places swimming with my kids in Hockley a year or so ago. Would be so good to meet up with everyone again. I'm still playing drums and still listening to ska.
ReplyDeleteA reunion would be great. I'm friends with the guys from the duelers so maybe we could get a support slot :) don't know if we can private message but if not I will set up a temp email just to swap our details and avoid any spam on my proper email. Mark.
Hey Lee great to see you here. I was only playing the track to one of my clients on friday and looked at this blog to see if it had been updated. Brilliant find :)
ReplyDeleteemail me at theskandaldrummer @ gmail dot com.
So you know its me, we changed the words to all of "this" turns me to drink on the radio edit clean version, and we used to rehearse at trackside. I would love to do a reunion, and Im friedns with the guys called the duallers, so we could even get a support slot.
Mark