Skinny Lister Drop “Pub Shed Bootleg” EP

Following the release of last year’s Shanty Punk album, Skinny Lister have now unveiled a brand new digital EP through Xtra Mile Recordings. The Pub Shed Bootleg features half a dozen tracks from the Shanty Punk album, played live at the legendary Forge & Flagon pub shed earlier this year, that perfectly encapsulates the raucous fun of a Skinny Lister gig. The release comes just before a summer of festival performances at 2000 Trees Festival, Vainstream and Angeliter Open Air Festival and touring across Europe supporting Frank Turner. Skinny Lister will then return to the UK for their traditional end-of-year headline tour bonanza. 

“The Forge & Flagon has been a big part of the Skinny Lister story from our very beginning and has always remained some kind of spiritual home for the band. We named our first album after it and have enjoyed so many great and often messy nights in The Forge over the years. We recently shot the video for our single ‘Company Of The Bar’ there – which perfectly captures the atmosphere of the place. For our latest release – the six-track live EP ‘Pub Shed Bootleg’ – we again felt the enduring pull of The Forge. This time we brought along a crude recording setup to capture us playing a selection of songs taken from our recent album ‘Shanty Punk’. It was great to have Smudge and Mandy (landlord and landlady) along with a whole bunch of Forge regulars join us for the session to help fill the shed and the recordings with that truly unique atmosphere. Even Party George is present to get the place jumping with his self-penned song ‘William Harker’. As Shanty Punk was largely made as an album to be played live – it’s great to take these six tracks and hear them in a live but intimate setting, giving the tracks an even more beer-soaked rowdy atmosphere and a fresh dimension. It has also been a great way to touch base with Skinny Lister’s origins and first inspirations, which remains a part of the band’s core DNA to this day. Cheers to that and long live The Forge!” (frontman Dan Heptinstall)