Shack

A shack is a type of small, often primitive shelter or dwelling.

It is possible that up to a billion people worldwide live in shacks. Fire is a significant hazard in tight-knit shack settlements. Shack settlements are also sometimes known as slums or shanty towns.

In Australian English shack can also refer to a small holiday house with limited conveniences, for instance it may not have running water or electricity.

In oilfield drilling (Canada) a shack can also be the word for a wellsite trailer. Structures that were once notorious among oilfield workers for being cramped, uncomfortable and generally unpleasant to be in are now no longer good enough for companies that are serious about employee retention.

Shacks in Kayamandi, South Africa

Shacks in Kayamandi, South Africa

In relatively affluent areas, shacks are often used for storage or have been abandoned.

In relatively affluent areas, shacks are often used for storage or have been abandoned.

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Shack (disambiguation)

A Shack is a type of small house, usually in a state of disrepair.

Shack or The Shack may also refer to:

Places

People with surname Shack

See also

Shack (band)

Shack are an English band formed in Liverpool in 1987. Originally Shack consisted of Mick Head (vocals/guitar), his brother John Head (guitar), Justin Smith (bass) and Mick Hurst.

History

The Pale Fountains

Before founding Shack, Michael and John Head were in the cult 1980s band The Pale Fountains, and released two albums, Pacific Street in March 1984 and ...From Across The Kitchen Table in March 1985. However, though critically acclaimed, the albums only reached Numbers 85 and 94 in the UK Albums Chart. That band ended around 1986 and returned from London to their home town of Liverpool. Sadly, bassist and founder member, Chris "Biffa" McCaffrey died of a brain tumour in 1989.

1987–1996: Zilch, Waterpistol and hiatus

The Head brothers soon re-emerged as Shack, signing to the Ghetto Recording Company, home of record producer Ian Broudie's solo project, The Lightning Seeds and British soul band Distant Cousins. Shack's first album Zilch was released in 1988, but was neither critically nor commercially successful. The album was later re-released on the Red Flag Recording Company label with three extra tracks in 2007.

Angelfire

Angelfire is an Internet service that offers free space for Web sites. It was founded in 1996 and was originally a combination Web site building and medical transcription service. Eventually the site dropped the transcription service and focused solely on Web site hosting, offering both free and paid memberships. The site was bought by Mountain View, California–based WhoWhere in 1997, which, in turn, was subsequently purchased by the search engine company Lycos in 1998. As Lycos already offered Web page hosting with advertising through its acquisition of Tripod.com, Angelfire's offering was modified to also have parity with Tripod, including the addition of an increased amount of advertising, but also by offering more disk space.

Free email

Until May 2004, Angelfire offered free email (as a cobrand of Mailcity) at the @angelfire.com domain, but this feature has been replaced by Web-based email through Lycos Domains for premium users only.

Tripod

As of 2008, Angelfire continues to operate separately from Tripod.com and now includes features such as blog building and a photo gallery builder. It also supports, for paid members only, CGI scripts written in Perl.

Angelfire (disambiguation)

Angelfire is an Internet service.

Angelfire or Angel Fire may also refer to:

Angelfire (album)

Angelfire is a collaboration album by guitarist/composer singer Steve Morse and singer/songwriter Sarah Spencer, collectively known as the group (by the same name), Angelfire. It was released on August 10, 2010 by Radiant Records.

Track listing

Personnel

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