HARD SKIN "Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear" LP

nine years on from the stunning second album 'same meat, different gravy', lazy south london oi! legends hard skin return with not one but two albums. 'on the balls' is the male version of this soon to be household oi! classic. it's 12 instant anthems about council estates, sausages, the kids, cunts, the filth and gipsy hill. the sound is massive, the songs catchy and they'll stick in yer head for years. no one does anthemic oi! better than hard skin and the world will once again rejoice at these three diamond geezers.

Side One
1. Council Estate (with Marion Herbain & Roxanne Clifford)
2. The Man Who Ran The Town (with Joanna Newsom)
3. You Still Here? (with Miki Berenyi)
4. Crack On, Have A Booze (with Manda Rin)
5. Police Car (Chasing You) (with Liela Moss)
6. Another Terrace Anthem (with Mustard Gas)
Side Two
1. Sausage Man (with Debbie Smith)
2. We're Gonna Do Them (with Beth Jeans Houghton)
3. The Kids Are Innocent (with Beki Bondage)
4. Two Bob Cunt (with Alela Diane)
5. That's Bollocks Mate (with Beckie Chaos)
6. The Gipsy Hill (with Alison Mosshart)

Hard Skin are the worlds premier oi! punk band. No-one is better or harder. With their amazing live concerts they continue to build on their huge following of punks, skinheads, indie people and other pop stars. It's been 9 years since their last album, the massive “Same Meat Different Gravy”. That makes it 17 years since their enormous hit debut album “Hard Nuts And Hard Cunts”, one of the most legendary albums in rock music history which has kept the oi! genre alive since the glory days of the Cockney Rejects and Cock Sparrer who both went terrible after also starting out very good.

From the blistering opener “Council Estate”, through the gritty street realness of classics such as “Police Car (Chasing You)” and “The Kids Are Innocent”, and of course their life-long dedication to Millwall FC with “Another Terrace Anthem” and “We're Gonna Do Them”, and with undoubtedly their best studio sound and performance to date, On The Balls is an absolute classic every household has to have on their mantlepiece and in their ears.