Skint Records

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.

Skint (disambiguation)

Skint refers to the condition of having little money or few possessions.

It may also refer to:

  • Skint Records, a Brighton-based dance music record label
  • Skint (BBC series), a BBC television series
  • Skint (Channel 4 series), a Channel 4 television series
  • Skint & Demoralised, a British pop act
  • Skint (BBC series)

    Skint is a BBC Documentary series following the lives of Britain's poor, unemployed and homeless people as they manage day to day with little money and low job prospects. The show ran for two series and had three specials

    Episodes

    Series 1

    Series 2

    Specials

    References

    Podcasts:

    Skint

    Skint

    ALBUMS

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Skint

    by: Restarts

    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,




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