Skeet - Park Road '1981/2023

Tracks list

In April 2023 Mikey Young an influential Australian based musician, producer and
engineer was interviewed by Bandcamp for one of its regular blogs, and he was
asked to list the top 5 songs he was listening to. Out of the millions of tracks
available he chose Skeets ‘Brief Call’, calling it.....
“one of those songs that shows how you can make something great with so
few elements. It’s a simple bassline, a really simple drum machine beat,
a tiny guitar line and a beautiful voice. Why are there no other songs?"

I was made aware of this new interest in the band I had championed in the 1980s
and discovered that bass player Nigel Meffen had a large collection of Skeet
recordings on cassettes that included the demo from Park Road. Plans were
immediately drawn up for this demo to be the basis of the first release on
Almost Unknown Records.

I had been contemplating a new record label for some years. A label that brings
to the fore obscure music of any genre that I love. Music which did not receive
the deserved exposure or indeed like AU01,no exposure at all as it was never
released.

AU01 is the catalogue number of 'Park Road' a 12'', 6 track EP by Skeet, AU
stands for Almost Unknown. Skeet was a band from the Coventry underground music
scene that I championed in the early 1980’s. They consisted of Kay Booth
(vocals), Nigel Meffen (bass) and Gary Meffen (guitar and Roland CR8000 Compu
Rhythm programming).

In 1981, Skeet recorded a demo tape in my front room at 38 Park Road, Coventry,
on a mixer owned by Jerry Dammers. There was some record label interest at the
time but the band broke up due to the pressures of work and life before a wider
audience could hear their music.

Skeet disappeared but their track 'Brief Call', from the Park Road demo tape was
given a new lease of life in April 2018 when it appeared on the compilation,
'Alternative Sounds Volume 1', a limited edition CD that raised funds for the
Coventry Music Museum. It was also available on the Alternative Sounds Bandcamp
site as a download, and it was from this platform that it was rediscovered
again.

Now, after the cassette was digitally transferred by Martin Bowes at The Cage
Studio in Coventry and remastered by myself and Tanel Roovik at Ajar Studios in
Tallinn, Skeet’s recordings from 1981, are finally being released after
42 years! 

Tracklist:
1.01 - Skeet - Brief Call (3:40) 
1.02 - Skeet - Alone Tonight (4:30) 
1.03 - Skeet - Left On The Shelf (3:58) 
1.04 - Skeet - Young Girls (3:08) 
1.05 - Skeet - Avril In The Alps (3:14) 
1.06 - Skeet - Meat House (2:31)

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