skindeep__more_than_skin_deep_1988.zip
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Late in the evening another classic and it’s Doncaster 1985, Wayne Kenyon, Milk Whitnall, Andy State and Shaun Parkin form the band Skin-Deep. One year later Shaun is replaced by Dean Jordan. With only three concerts, they were asked to participate on the compilation Oi! The Resurrection, and Self Respect was their first vinyl output. The result was not exactly the sound the band was looking for, but it was the group’s presentation to the Skinhead scene of that time. In 1986, they record the song My Life’s Fine for another compilation, The Sound Of Oi!. In 1987 they are offered a tour of South Africa, which they do not accede for obvious reasons and the band refuses to play in a “Racist State”. Continuing with the musical plane, the group is making a hole in the scene and tab by Link Records to recorded their first and only album. For this work, the band is extended with a section of winds in charge of Gav Miller (trumpet), Carol Jenkinson (saxophone) and Carl Rosamond (keyboards). In July 1988 the record came out with ten songs that navigate between Oi!, Punk & Ska and they give many bands great influences. In the mid 1980’s Skin-Deep are known for skinheads around the world. They were obviously hated by the right-wing boneheads, but they were embraced by non-racist skinheads everywhere, in addition they always concideraron a band conscious of being working class in the mid-1980s, without necessarily being a band 100% politics. After three years of life and with less than twenty concerts, they never play in their native town so the band broke up.
