23 Skidoo
11 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Bill Brewster, Rock's Backpages audio, 21 September 2001
Alex Turnbull and "Sketch" Martin take us from the early days in Hackney to the (2001) present day: their association with Throbbing Gristle; early influences; early releases and the band schism; The Culling is Coming and Urban Gamelan; their increasing interest in hip hop, and their Ronin Records label.
File format: mp3; file size: 78.8mb, interview length: 1h 26' 03" sound quality: ****
List of articles in the library
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Report by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 1 October 1981
Merit Badges Goes To Dianaland ...
Defunkt, 23 Skidoo: The Venue, London
Live Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 7 November 1981
Closer to the Bone ...
23 Skidoo: King's College, London
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 23 January 1982
GOODNESS KNOWS, it's hard enough to sit yourself high in the air and look down penetratingly at anything in rock/pop with a view to clocking ...
23 Skidoo — Don't Play Funky For Me!
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 12 June 1982
"You see, the people who constantly listen to pop have their ears degraded by wrong style and reiteration, senseless reiteration..."– Unity Mitford, taped on 'Porno ...
Pigbag: Lend An Ear (Y)/23 Skidoo: The Culling Is Coming (Operating Twilight)
Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 12 February 1983
BOTH OF these docile records stand or fall as assemblages: their creators propose to be organisers of sound, something more than itinerant pop musicians. ...
23 Skidoo: Urban Gamelan; Shriekback: Jam Science
Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 11 August 1984
I DON'T KNOW whether it was the film of African boys being circumcised or the self-important and gimmicky drone that accompanied it, but back in ...
Interview by Richard Kick, ZigZag, October 1984
THE THOUGHT was: as a concise introduction into the idea of 23 Skidoo I would write a short piece about Fritz Hamaan. ...
Interview by David Stubbs, The Wire, July 2000
Before their drums fell silent, 23 Skidoo’s percussion-heavy apocalypses ripped away the city’s civilised surface to reveal its primitive heart. Now the long wait is ...
Retrospective and Interview by Bill Brewster, Jockey Slut, 2001
"What man is at ease in his Inn?Get out.Wide is the world and cold.Get out.Thou hast become an initiate.Get out."Aleister Crowley – 'Skidoo', chapter 23 ...
23 Skidoo: Seven Songs, Urban Gamelan
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, November 2001
Audacious avant-funksters re-released ...
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