Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:38:54 -0500 http://www.papaskin.com/ Papaskin Powered Site en-us http://www.papaskin.com/images/logo.gif http://www.papaskin.com/ papaskin@papaskin.com http://www.papaskin.com/Article18.html Untitled document A NON-POLITICAL CHANNEL FOR TRADITIONAL SKINS: Presenting video content that reflects the shared values of true skinheads around the world (regardless of race, nationality or religion). Celebrating over 40 years of Working Class culture!   Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:38:54 -0500 http://www.papaskin.com/Article17.html Untitled document HAPPY 4th of JULY BOOBIES! Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:41:06 -0500 http://www.papaskin.com/Article16.html Untitled document The anti-racist group’s mentality of ‘work to live’ and not ‘live to work’ emphasizes their desire to ride scooters, dance, drink and chase skirts until they die. “We stand and fight, back to back. We take no shit, we stay strong, we stick together and we deal with it. We use heads and not our fist unless we’re pushed....as one we’ll fight and win!” — lyrics from the song, “Back to Back,” by Underdog. Tom Paszkiewicz’s MySpace page is littered with references to scooters, skinheads and the punk scene. His number one friend is listed as the Crusaders Scooter Corp., a page that is an homage to beer drinking, sectarian militancy and scooter riding. Paszkiewicz, member of King City Firm and the Crusaders Scooter Club, describes himself as not a regular civilian type, but a man deeply ingrained in a sub-culture of social outsiders. Paszkiewicz’s unapologetic attitude is not to be confused with the white-power movement. He’s a non-racial skinhead, a small fraternity of pro-national, anti-society scooter fanatics, who ride vintage Vespas and listen to punk and ska music. “Skinhead is part of the punk rock scene,” Paszkiewicz said. “It may have taken its name from the English, but it has definitely been influenced by the American punk.” Mike Benjamin, 2006 graduate and former Lawrence skinhead, said the skinhead movement started with young English boys protecting their neighborhoods and became a backlash to the long-haired hippies of 1960’s America. Neo-Nazis adopted the name and haircut in the 1980s, forcing a rigid distinction between the two groups. Read More...   Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:32:40 -0500 http://www.papaskin.com/Article15.html Untitled document Chris, the bloke who runs the myspace site "A way of life", has started his own skinhead website, more of a magazine site. He's done a few interviews including one with yours truly - if anybody is interested - link below: http://www.skinheadawayoflife.com/Skinhead regards,Shaz  Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:06:53 -0500 http://www.papaskin.com/Article13.html Untitled document Thirty years after Rock Against Racism, some of its survivors join the younger generation to show how much – or how little – has changedI've been mugged three times in London. Now, looking at it objectively, spread over 20 years of living in one of the world's most crowded cities, that's not a bad tally. The trouble is this: every time, the perpetrators were young, male and black. On the third and most serious occasion, I was clubbed on the head with a metal bar, dragged into an alley, and held with a knife to my neck by one guy while his accomplice raided £500 from my bank account. What do I "do" with that? The progressive thing to do is, if not write it off as a statistical blip, at least place it in the context of wider sociological factors. But one's intellectual and visceral responses are two different things, and as a committed anti-racist I was shocked to find myself flinching every time a young black male (particularly if dressed in a particular fashion) passed me in the street. Maybe I shouldn't have thrown that victim counselling leaflet in the bin. This is precisely why Love Music Hate Racism needs to exist. Will Self, answering a question about Martin Amis at a recent talk, opined that "everyone is a little bit racist", and if even someone as scrupulously egalitarian as myself can experience such feelings, then it doesn't take a genius to work out how the combined effects of anecdotal incidents like mine, tabloid hysteria about gang warfare, and irresponsible politicians using words like "swamped" might drive large sections of the white working class into the all too eager arms of the BNP.  READ MORE...   Wed, 07 May 2008 14:43:27 -0500 http://www.papaskin.com/Article12.html Untitled document Iron Cross was an early `80s hardcore/Oi! act with links to the Dischord scene, a fairly groundbreaking band for skinhead culture in the US. Though they never actually had a release on Dischord Records, the band's close ties with Ian Mackaye landed them a spot on 1982's fabled Flex Your Head compilation. Their only other real output came in the form of a few EPs, the last of which came in 1983, with false accusations of racist leanings supposedly leading frontman Sab Grey to break up the band. So as far as anyone can tell, this is their first new material in almost 25 years. 2 Piece and a Biscuit is actually a split release between Iron Cross and Grey's other project, the Royal Americans, who contribute songs from their 2004 release, Third Left on the Right. The EP opens up with "Pride and Freedom," and frankly, it feels redundant calling any of these songs "working class anthems" but that's exactly what this song is. And what do you know, it's a pretty great song. You'll find your fist pumping along with the cheesy, given "Oi!"s and singing along with Grey's oddly Springsteen-esque holler. The band is operating fully at mid-tempo, but it's not like they were ever the most speedy outfit anyway. None of Iron Cross's other songs here match the feel-good vibes of the first song, but the fact that "I Don't Love You Any More," "Running Riot" and "Catch Your Grave (demo)" is mostly a better produced and more professional sounding version of their younger selves is pretty admirable. Granted, there are some sure rock'n'roll vibes for the chorus of "Running Riot," but old fans -- and anyone who follows Oi!'s most popular followers -- might just get a kick out of these songs. Sab Grey's last three with his Royal Americans band is a more Americana/Cash-type deal. The bizarro highlight is a downbeat cover of the Specials' "Skinhead Girl" done in the style of Cash; it's just weird. "Wasted in DC" is an Oi!-backed rockabilly affair and "Ship of Sorrow" another semi-haunting country shuffle in the vein of Johnny and June. Overall, these songs are alright, but I'd much rather hear a few more Iron Cross songs, or at least a more linear approach. All told, not at all a bad comeback. A lot of people would definitely question the quality if early `80s acts like Minor Threat or Negative Approach tried recording new material so long after the fact, but at least one band of the era has managed some very competent new takes. STREAM Iron Cross - Pride and Freedom Iron Cross - I Don't Love You Any More Iron Cross - Catch Your Grave (demo) Sab Grey and the Royal Americans - Skinhead Girl Sab Grey and the Royal Americans - Wasted in DC   Wed, 07 May 2008 14:36:27 -0500 http://www.papaskin.com/Article11.html Untitled document Coventry band The Specials are planning a reunion tour for later this year, according to frontman Terry Hall. Hall said that the ska band, who created such hits as ‘Ghost Town’ and ‘Rat Race’, had been inspired by the long-list of veteran band’s that have reformed over recent years. "Because I saw Patti Smith do Horses, and I saw The Pixies reforming... you do it with dignity or don't do it at all,” he told the BBC. The frontman said that the group hoped to be on the road this Autumn. “We need to spend the summer rehearsing, I think it's taken me 30 years to realise we could do it really well,” he said. Hall and the band’s guitarist Lynval Golding appeared at the Glastonbury Festival last year alongside Lily Allen and Damon Albarn. Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:41:14 -0500 http://www.papaskin.com/Article10.html Untitled document Roger Perkins reviews Skinheads by John KingThe success of novels such as The Football Factory, Human Punk and White Trash have made John King the premier chronicler, even celebrant, of Britain's more lumpen subcultures and, incidentally, the biggest-selling author on Jonathan Cape's roster.His seventh book, Skinheads, offers a tale based on the nasty short-haired cult that in the early 1970s proved so irresistible to the large tranche of this country's youths who weren't hippies or Greebos. Many of these have immatured with age and now have salaries big enough to splash out on Savile Row tonic suits and, indeed, hardbacks.Terry English, one of the three central characters, reflects this. The materially prosperous skinhead owner of a taxi firm, he approaches his 50th birthday with a heart weakened by both fry-ups and the death of his wife and boot-girl soulmate.The discovery of the boarded-up Union Jack Club offers him the chance of a new start and a shot at some sort of salvation through passing on the skinhead code of the joy of ska, the delight of looking sharp and the pleasure of a good ruck to the next generation, represented by his nephew, Nutty Ray, an Oi-obsessed autodidact who's as likely to engage you in a debate on Orwell as he is to twop you one, and Lol, Terry's skate-punk son and all-round tasty herbert. And that's about it, really.READ MORE..   Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:22:25 -0500 http://www.papaskin.com/Article9.html Untitled document Hailed as one of reggae greatest innovators By Basil Walters Observer staff reporter Sunday, March 16, 2008Radio disc jock Mikey Dread is dead. He succumbed to a brain tumour late yesterday afternoon at his family home in Connecticut, USA at the age of 54. Born Michael Campbell in Port Antonio, Jamaica, he distinguished himself as an extraordinary studio engineer and presenter at the now defunct Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) where he came to prominence in the 1970s as “The Dread-the-Control Tower”, the name of the late night show he presented at a time when reggae music was scoffed at by many. Mikey Dread… hailed as one of reggae’s greatest innovators and original radio engineers/technicians, the past student of Titchfield High School, in 2006 celebrated the 30th anniversary of the night programme which he started at the JBC, and revolutionised the after midnight shift making it into the most popular slot on radio, by playing strictly dub music. This innovation is seen by many musicologists as the antecedence of dancehall as we now know it. READ MORE   Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:17:33 -0500 http://www.papaskin.com/Article8.html Untitled document   ...is the title of a recent Pan Macmillan published book. Essentially, it's a biography of Britain's best ska-revival band, The Specials, and it's written by Specials' bass player Horace Panter. Panter these days is a special needs teacher although he can still be found doing weekend gigs in and around the Coventry area. It's good to be close to your roots.Lucky you, dear reader, if you're old and ugly enough to remember this lot. They had the best songs and (according to many reports) were the best live band going at the time. Being at primary school at the height of their fame, I never got to see them and I would've had to be accompanied by one of my parents had I went, which would not have been cool. They then split up in October 1981 leaving me more than pissed off. READ MORE    Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:13:46 -0500 http://www.papaskin.com/Article7.html Untitled document The Victoria BC Ska Society is a newly formed non-profit organization that is comprised of a handful of organizers, volunteers and Board of Directors whose main goal is to keep Victoria’s Annual Ska Festival improving and evolving year after year as well as preserving the profile of ska and its related genres throughout the year in our region. All those involved in the Society have a burning passion for supporting the ska and reggae scene throughout Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland of BC as well as Canada and the rest of the world.1. To present and nurture ska music along with its related genres- jazz, reggae, rock n' roll, punk, soul Latin, R&B and more - in Victoria and region, on Vancouver Island, across British Columbia and Canada as well as the world2. To educate youth, communities and the general public about ska music and its related genres through a variety of methods including but not limited to the presentation of festivals, musical events, film, visual art, literature, and the press3. To work with individuals, groups, non-profit organizations, businesses and governments throughout Victoria and region and across Canada in order to entrench ska music and its related genres into local and national cultureLink: http://www.victoriaskafest.ca/READ MORE   Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:37:00 -0500 http://www.papaskin.com/Article6.html Untitled document Durango's breweries continue to expand to meet customer demand for craft beer. Ska Brewing is constructing a new headquarters and brewing facility in Bodo Industrial Park that is expected to triple the Durango company's brewing capacity. Ska brewed 8,010 barrels of beer in 2007, up 18 percent from 2006. That growth came in its current markets in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Illinois and North Carolina. "We've been at capacity all year," said Dave Thibodeau, co-founder and president of Ska Brewing. Ska plans to move newly purchased brewing equipment into its new plant around the end of June. It will hopefully open to the public in late September, Thibodeau said. Ska will be able to brew 24,000 barrels a year at the new plant, Thibodeau saidFind them here at: http://www.skabrewing.com   Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:15:52 -0500 http://www.papaskin.com/Article5.html Untitled document  Is there some unwritten rule that every ground-breaking musician must also have a screw loose? I don't mean to assert that Lee "Scratch" Perry is actually mentally deficient, but on the basis of the footage compiled in the documentary The Upsetter: The Life & Music of Lee "Scratch" Perry, it would be easy to conclude that something is not quite right with Mr. Perry.One of the reasons I wanted to see this particular doc is because I hoped to learn more about Perry, oft described as a legendary musical figure. I first heard about him when he worked with The Clash to produce their version of Junior Marvin's "Police and Thieves" in the late 1970s, but as The Upsetter shows, Perry first rose to fame in the 1960s as the talented producer of dozens of ska records. Perry, who was born in a small town in Jamaica, credits his later success to a stint working on a construction crew building a highway; the rhythmic sound of rocks being smashed against one another made a deep impression on his musical soul. Eventually he got an entry-level job at a recording studio and worked his way up until he became a widely sought after producer.READ MORE Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:05:12 -0500 http://www.papaskin.com/Article4.html In the 1940s, 50s and 60s, Sister Mary Ignatius Davies ran the Alpha Boys School in Jamaica, instilling into her boys a love of music and thus playing a vital but unheralded role in the reggae explosion of the 1960s BBC correspondent and reggae fanatic Jonathan Charles tells the story of Sister Iggy, her sound-system dances and the men she inspired. Sister Marie Ignatius Davies: 'the 'nun who nurtured reggae' As a teenager growing up in Nottingham in the mid-1970s - there was a big Afro-Caribbean community and reggae was everywhere. It was fantastically exotic - against the background of freezing cold winters there was this sound wafting in from the Caribbean, very different to English life at the time. In a way that interest in the exotic is what led to me wanting to travel and eventually to become a foreign correspondent, a feeling that there was more life beyond the United Kingdom. READ MORE!... Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:56:50 -0600 http://www.papaskin.com/Article3.html Untitled document Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:23:51 -0600 http://www.papaskin.com/Article2.html Thanks for stopping by to check out the rebuild. Of course - I have no idea how it will look tomorrow, I'm trying many things out and just basically having a bit of fun with it again. Drop me a line in the forum after you sign up and let me know if you found something that sucks or doesn't work - let me know your thoughts etc...building from the ground up gives me the chance to add new things - so tell me what you like and don't like! Skinhead Regards, Papaskin Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:44:51 -0600 http://www.papaskin.com/Article1.html Untitled document   Need we say more? Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:36:46 -0600