You can travel far and wide this Saturday (November 5) night, but you’ll not find a gig as great as this: The Skull live at The Craufurd Arms in Wolverton.
The Stateside doom aces - featuring original Trouble vocalist Eric Wagner and bassist Ron Holzner - are making their second trip to this side of the pond in 2016, to wow with material spanning those early Trouble songs and current Skull material.
It’s our gig of the week, and if you take a ticket, they’ll blow your mind too. Trust us.
Eric and Ron went On Track with Total MK...
The song that first awakened your musical senses.
Eric: When I was seven my cousin - who is older - had me come into her room so she could play me the single from the Beatles, it was Nowhere Man. I still relate to that song to this day
Ron: My brothers and sister all listened to Grand Funk Railroad when I was a kid. ‘Closer to Home’ was and is that song.
Physical or digital - how do you take your music?
Eric: Depends, I think new music recorded digital sounds better on CD
but I still like putting on a record, there's just something about it
when that needle hits the vinyl. It’s what I grew up on
Ron: A CD in your hand is "physical" right? So, both.
The first time you thought 'Music - this is the job for me'
Eric: When Elvis slid down that pole in Jailhouse Rock
Ron: I never thought of music as a job.... I work a job so I can afford to play music.
Your best on stage memory...
Eric: At the 1993 Dynamo Fest in Holland we were doing the song Fear
and in the middle the lyric is ‘keep on hopin’ for sunny days
but it just rains on me,’ right then it started raining and there was
a rainbow over the stage
Ron: Yep, Eric that was tops! 300,000 people or so at that show.
We were the only band it rained on the whole weekend.
And the worst gig you've ever done
Eric: All the ones I can't remember because I was too busy partying
Ron: I thought all the ones we don't remember were good, haha.
What made you take up singing
Eric: I was at a party that Bruce's band was playing and they needed a singer so I thought i'd check it out. In hindsight maybe i should have just stayed home ...
Which one song by another artist do you wish you'd have written
Eric: All the ones that touch my soul
And one - by yourself - which holds special significance
Eric: Probably Misery Shows Act II. It was the first song i wrote by myself that ended up on a record
If you could step into the shoes of another musician, living or dead, who would it be and what would you do?
Eric: James Taylor back when he was married to Carly Simon
Are there any current musical influences that you look to for inspiration?
Eric: no
And any genre of music that you simply can't stand?
Eric: Almost all of them, I'm just a rocker at heart
Finally, plug your show at The Craufurd Arms - what can we expect?
Eric: Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends,
we're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside,
come inside, the show's about to start, guaranteed to blow your mind apart, rest assured you'll get your money's worth...
Tickets for Saturday’s date are on sale at £13. Support comes from Kings Destroy and Death & The Miser.
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