Space Raiders

Skint singles:

       SKINT 32 Glam Raid
       SKINT 40 Laid Back
       SKINT 47 (I Need The) Disko Doktor

Skint albums:

BRASSIC 13 Don't Be Daft

                     Space Raiders may be relatively new faces on the Skint
                     roster, but they come with a ready made rock family tree of
                     their own. For Mark Hornby, Gary Bradford and Martin Jenkins
                     who make up the band, the Space Raiders is the culmination
                     of a decade of musical experimentation in dozens of bands
                     that have bemused audiences all over the country.

                     Gary began experimenting with weird underground electronics
                     on The Bogley Factory label, making their own tapes and
                     T-shirts in true cottage industry fashion. Particularly
                     memorable was the group Ball, which included a ball of
                     cheese as a band member. Then came Angels Of Wigwam,
       followed by stints in the hillbilly skiffle band Jimmy Linklater & The
       Plastic Forx, and as Nature Boy.

       Martin's musical interest initially lay in the techno / breakbeat field
       with the Leicester based sound system News Of The Future which rocked
       audiences at clubs like Peek and Zen Masters before going solo as Kong
       King.

Mark trained as a nurse in Leeds and played in pubs with a Velvet
Underground cover band 'Can't Be Arsed'.

       Whilst they had known each other as friends for many years, Gary, Martin
       and Mark could so easily have continued on their seperate paths
       accumulating a progressively more ridiculous collection of band names.
       Fate, however, was to take its course.

       The band concede that the single most important factor in the formation of
       the Space Raiders was the mushroom season of '97. For as the autumn
       evenings drew in Gary, Martin & Mark plotted their future. They began
       making music: the seminal 'Cutter's Choice' was made during this creative
       vortex, along with 'East Coast Melody' and 'Glam Raid'. The band got a
       title. Naming themselves after an empty packet of Space Raiders crisps
       that blew through Gary's front door on a particularly windy
       Middlesboroughafternoon. As anyone who lives there knows, empty packets of
       Space Raiders swirl around the streets like flocks of sparrows - they're
       the most popular brand of crisp in the North East. It was the perfect
       choice.

They had also decided that Skint Records would be the target, attracted by
the label's music and philosophy. Another top move.

       So what of the Space Raiders' music? Their influences are wide and frankly
       bizarre. Gary likes glam rock, house and Frank Sinatra, Mark prefers 60's
       & 70's music and hip hop whilst Martin confesses to a penchant for Queen,
       Fats Domino, techno and mentions in passing that he was brought up on a
       diet of Shirley Bassey. When it comes to making music they plan nothing,
       preferring to just randomly sample records and see where the music takes
       them. "I don't quite know why we do things or where we are going," muses
       Gary, "But it is important that everything we do has a good melody and a
       sense of humour."

       Having moved to Brighton, the Raiders set about writing and producing
       their debut album, creating their own percussion sounds, collecting
       off-the-wall noises and getting down to the serious business of writing
       "songs that are happy and sad at the same time."

       'Don't Be Daft' LP shocks and delights at every turn. A beast with many
       tentacles, it's a freaked out and funked up amalgam of all those Raiders
       influences and a whole lot more. An album that only Gary, Martin and Mark
       could produce. From the Raiders' anthem 'Rock The Nation', the distinctive
       and sublime 'Laidback', right through to the simply insane glam moments of
       'Monster Munch' and, of course, the record that started it all, 'Glam
       Raid', this album stands apart. There is even a bit of deep house in there
       somewhere. It sounds like nothing else around. And that of course can only
       be a good thing...

       Their last single "(I Need The) Disko Doktor" muscled onto the dancefloor
       over the summer of '99 and with its remixes by Phats & Small, Groove
       Armada and Clockwork Voodoo Freaks, attained something approaching cult
       status in Ibiza.

       The Space Raiders unique brand of musical entertainment is not convined to
       the studio. They are only too keen to get on the road with their
       "costumes" and show everyone exactly how it should be done. However their
       live shows did get off to a rather inauspicous start.The band freely
       confess that their early performances were nothing short of a vodka and
       mushroom induced shambles, only deciding what to play moments before going
       on stage "according to what people looked like in the audience." But after
       a long stint supporting the Lo Fidelity Allstars in Europe (autumn 98) and
       on the road alongside Indian Ropeman and Sparky Lightbourne as the 'Skint
       In February' nationwide tour, they have emerged brimming with confidence
       winning over audiences with every new performance. A Space Raiders show is
       like nothing else around. Just like their music...

Space Raiders - taking the boogie back to Middlesborough!

Дискография:
SKINT 32

Space Raiders
Glam Raid

       12" Skint 32
       CD Skint 32CD
       7" Skint 32

       12"
       Glam Raid (12" Mix)
       Glam Raid (Radio Edit)
       Boy Power

       CD
       Glam Raid (Edit)
       Glam Raid
       Boy Power

       7"
       Glam Raid (Edit)
       Boy Power (Edit)

       Somedays opening the post can be a real pain in the arse, invites to
       fashionable parties, free records and German Techno mags... so imagine our
       delight when one day we got a packet of pickled onion 'Space Raiders' (a
       cheap corn snack) sent to us. While we thought we were just getting a nice
       bonus snack for elevenses, little did we know the journey we had just
       embarked on... Over the next 10 days we got a packet a day until one day
       we recived a large silver star with a tape by a Middlesborough based dance
       combo called The Space Raiders. Desperately hoping the tape would be good,
       after we had enjoyed the crisps so much... and thankfully it was some of
       the most inventive music we'd heard. 'Glam Raid' was this twisted mutant
       of a track that sampled Kenny's 'The Bump' - a sugary Glam record from the
       mid 70's. We couldn't stop playing it anyone who listened....we rang them,
       they sent a whole box of Space Raiders and we've loved them ever since.

SKINT 40

Space Raiders
Laid Back

       12" Skint 40
       CD Skint 40CD
       7" Skints 40

       12"
       Laid Back
       Laid Back (Indiangeneralsan Mix)
       Laid Back (Lady Killaz Mix )

       CD
       Laid Back (Edit)
       Song For Europe
       Laid Back (Indiangeneralsan Mix)

       7"
       Laid Back (Edit)
       Song For Europe (Edit)

       Although we seem to have this reputation for being all big beat bonkers
       and everything.... well occasionally we have some sublime tender moments
       and this is one of them. A masterpiece of a 'chill out' tune, this was the
       first time we realised that the Raiders could sing which is always a
       bonus. This should have been a huge hit but it's probably fair to say that
       some people found the Raiders a bit confusing what with mutant glam to
       dreamy tenderness in the space of one single... but that's also why we
       love them. There is also a great 'Ladykillaz' remix by Dan Hahn, who was a
       mate of the bands, did it on spec - we loved his remix and we signed him
       to Under 5's. Aaaahhhhh.