- published: 03 Jan 2015
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Skint Records is a Brighton based dance music record label owned by JC Reid, Tim Jeffery and Damian Harris. It was created as a sublabel of Loaded Records, also founded by Reid and Jeffery. Along with Wall of Sound, the label was a leader in the big beat music scene of the mid to late 1990s.
The label's roster at this time included big beat scene leaders Fatboy Slim, Hardknox, Indian Ropeman, Freq Nasty and X-Press 2. Towards the end of the 1990s and at the start of the 21st century the label expanded its range of releases to include more house based songs. The most prominent example was "Lazy" by X-Press 2, which charted at number 2 in the UK charts. There were also releases by electronic music artist Dave Clarke as well as artists as diverse as Lucky Jim, Freq Nasty, FC Kahuna, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Req-1 and Ralfe Band. One mainstay band of the label has been the Lo-Fidelity Allstars who have changed and diversified their style along with the label.
Skint were the main kit sponsor for Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. for nine years until the relationship ended in 2008, one of the longest football league sponsorship deals. The Skint name does not appear consistently across all the Brighton and Hove shirts, with some variation in logo and even the complete replacement of the company's name with Palookaville on one of the shirt designs.
Showing as part of the BBC Wales Real Valleys season. Young people in the south Wales valleys spend more on looking good than in the most prosperous parts of London. Tattoos, tans, botox and boobs - a journey into the world of looking good and feeling poor as young Welsh men and women reveal all in their pursuit of the body beautiful.
When ya see rich folks in big flash clothes get a sense of inferiority
People look at ya strange try'na figure out yer game
Leave you feeling social oddity
Get a job paying shit
Better off not a bit
More chance to win the lottery
Try to get by
Tell a few lies what can you do
Live in poverty
Pittance on welfare wont suffice -
Got bills and debt got me in strife
Time for crime ain't worth the risk -
And I’m sick of living like this
Now put to the test with no dole cheque
Get a job the harsh reality
Lose all benefits going legit
Scrape by a bullshit salary
Wages so low now Britain is known as a new third world nation
This new deal shit just won't cut it
But only breed indignation.
Social poverty fact of life,
Gotta try an rise above the shite
Think of money for the life you'd like,