Skinny Lister

Skinny Lister Biography

Skinny Lister is a British folk band formed in London in 2009 initially as a five-piece band. In October 2013 a drummer was added. The band has played the respected folk circuit as well as the riotous Download Festival. They have played tours across Europe and North America with Frank Turner, Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly as well as headlining themselves across festivals, sweatboxes and ever-larger venues.   Their debut album Forge & Flagon was released in June 2012 in the UK and Europe, January 2013 in the USA. and July 2013 in Japan. Between 2012 and 2014 Skinny Lister went through a number of line up changes. In the autumn of 2013, the band expanded to a six-piece by adding Dave Neale on drums. This six-piece line-up toured Britain and Germany in the autumn of 2013 before going into the studio to record the band's second album, Down on Deptford Broadway. Skinny Lister's second album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in December 2013 and was released on 20 April 2015. It was produced by Ted Hutt. In May 2016 the band went into The Silk Mill Studio in Newcastle Under Lyme with producer Tristan Ivemy to record their third album, The Devil, the Heart, and the Fight. In 2018, their fourth offering, The Story Is... (produced and mixed by Barny Barnicott – Arctic Monkeys, The Enemy, The Temper Trap) takes the tales of the everyday, the minutiae of our lives, and turns them into songs.   In October 2020, the band released a Fifth Anniversary Edition of Down_on_Deptford_Broadway on yellow vinyl with download codes for demo versions of the twelve tracks.