*** NEW SINGLE NEWS *** 

Yes! In an attempt to bring sunshine into peoples lives,we are issuing 

" RUDE BOY RUDE GIRL" as our new single!!! 

TO BE RELEASED IN DECEMBER ON 7" VINYL / CD/ DIGI DOWNLOAD. 

We were going to issue "Eyes Of A Child" but that will appear on the new album "Northern Gods". 

RB RG is a calypso-y, uplifting tune. 

Let The Skapones take you away from the nightmare that is 2020 for 3 heavenly mins to  a world less stressful. 

Mixed and mastered by Paul Ayriss and featuring our friends Pamela Anderson-Buckley of Rude Boy George in the USA and Carlos Russell of Malambo Ska in Argentina on percussion! 

Single Art by YORKIE coming soon 

Hi everyone!

Yes- as lockdown no.2 kicks in, it puts an end to our recording spell. Bugger! we hear you say and rightly so!

So... to keep us entertained its home recording which isn't ideal we are launching a series of PODCASTS!

The "in" thing we are told.

So...here we are - 

THE SKAPONES SOUNDOFF PODCAST SERIES

The link is below

THE SKAPONES PODCAST SERIES

You can listen online on the Podbean website, download the Podbean app to your phone and listen on the go.

The podcasts are released every Friday night every week at 7pm.

Its good fun, with Willo joined by a band member every week and special guests coming in as well and members favourite tunes and other ska related items.

Episode 4 "Sax In The City"

Heres Episode One "Its All About The Bass" which featured bassist Kev Watson.

Here is the full interview as featured on the "Afternoons On Tees" show with Scott Makin on Monday September 28th 2020.

Its just over 4 minutes long so not too bad LOL

Enjoy

If you're free tomorrow morning (Thurs. 24th Sept) catch an interview and tune By The Skapones on BBC Radio Tees at 11am!

We will be appearing on the Mid Morning show 

It will be available on the BBC listen again service about 4 hours after broadcast if you miss it.

catch it on the link below- 

BBC RADIO TEES MID MORNING SHOW SKAPONES INTERVIEW 24TH SEPT

Woooooo!

Its all happening.

We are going back in time!.

We are releasing " Cradle To Grave- Retro Edition " a very special cassette  on a C90 tape! Its got extra tracks, live tracks, dubs, the works!

We will be issuing release date soon and it looks fab with great art again  from Yorkie - see below!

Coming Soon!

Its been a busy fruitful time here at Skapones HQ

The split USA import 7" vinyl single with our mates the Detroit Riddim Crew have arrived safely in the UK and along with the 2 hour documentary of our 2019 USA Tour they both go on sale in the shop from Sunday 30th August!! 

The vinyl looks and sounds fabulous - a mere steal at a fiver. The documentary will come as a download so once you buy it - you will be emailed a download link so ensure YOU CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDERS TOO.

All of this is exciting stuff and we hope you will share it with us along the way. 

BUY HERE

Hi chaps, we hope you are all keeping very well and fit in these bizarre times.

Just a heads up to say the documentary of our 2 week tour of the USA last year is almost ready for sale!

Entitled "Way Out West - An Offbeat Adventure", and filmed and edited and narrated by Mick & Ruth Jenner, it shows some great insights to the travelling, the sights and sounds of our madcap furious tour of the USA which saw us go coast to coast, nip into Canada n travel in to the Midwest.

It will be released in hard copy and direct download

There will be a free download of a few mp3s of the tunes from the trip and a few of the other acts who played with us. Once the link is live we will post here and across our social media.Enjoy!

Yes- in what will be our first gig since March, we are playing a fully secured event to coincide with socially distanced guidelines.

We will be playing outdoors at The Station Hotel, Park St in Pickering, North Yorkshire on Saturday August 29th kicking off 8pm.

Due to the nature of the event and the guidelines in place, the event will be monitored and controlled by the allocation and distribution of FREE tickets by the venue to control numbers.

The event is fully operated with security to ensure that social distance guidelines remain in place.

If you are interested in attending then contact the venue on 01752 476880.

Stay Safe x

How's it going ?

We are extremely excited and pleased to be able to bring you the PRE-ORDER LINK for our split USA/UK 7" vinyl single with our brothers the Detroit Riddim Crew!

Yes you can order right now to reserve your copy of this limited edition slice of old skool recording

It comes in a plain sleeve with old Jamaican styled labels

Buy the vinyl and get the digital downloads for free!

A percentage from proceeds goes to the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network and the Darlington UK food bank.

Here's the link - GET YOUR COPY NOW!!!!

USA SPLIT SINGLE PRE-ORDER

Hello people- 

Hope you are still all keeping well in this bizarre time of ours.

We have fantastic news to announce and that is we are releasing a very limited edition 7" vinyl single with our American brothers The Detroit Riddim Crew! This is going to be brilliant. the 7" vinyl will be available in the United Kingdom and the United States. The Crew are a very talented bunch of musos with a great rhythmic sound and their track will be "Do Something" and ours will be "The Girl Inside", which will be very cool to have on vinyl. This will come in a plain sleeve and label sticker just like the old skool Jamaican releases, they are extremely limited edition so we will post the link when they are available and once they're gone...they're gone!! 

Check out the Detroit Riddim Crew on bandcamp-  https://detroitriddimcrew.bandcamp.com

There will be a digital download of the track also coming out via all good download stores/apps etc...

With thanks to Yorkie Design & Art for the cover design.