Album Notes

The group The Skalls from Italy was founded in 2004. They started playing in some local bars. The notoriety of the group grow quickly so that they played concerts in Italy, Austria and Germany. Their music convinced many people, also Elliott Murphy, the man who released more than 15 CD’s as solo-artist and who wrote for many years as a expert for the most important music publication in the world, the “Rolling Stone”. The Skalls supported Elliott Murphy on the stage, but they also played with bands like The Locos from Spain (Ex Ska-P) and Guadalajara (ska band nr. 1 in Austria). The Skalls played on stages like the Hafen, one of the most important concert halls in Austria and the Kuke in Leoben. In 2006 the group recorded their first single called “Drain Away”, which was published on many ska cd’s like for example “Skankin’ Europe”(Alkooliganska Records) and the CD Skartel (Ruddybeat Records) which contains ska groups out of 10 nations. Furthermore the song Drain Away was chosen for cd’s that do not only contain ska music, like for example the CD “Lieder und Gesänge” (The Rocking Ape Records) which was distributed in Germany with 3000 CD’s.
After the big success of this song in 2007 the single “Blind” was released, than published by Ruddybeat Records as opening song of the CD Skartel 2, containing many of the best ska bands Europe’s. The top musician of the group is the trombonist Peter Steiner, a young talent who played in 2007 at “Prima la musica” which is the contest for the most talented musicians of Austria. There Peter Steiner won at the national Finals the first price with excellence. In 2007 the first video was recorded. Only on the Internet plattform Youtube the video was viewed more than 18.000 times. This was they year where the group made their first big Tour, The Mary Jane Tour’, where they played as headliner at different festivals like ‘Rock im Gorten’ where they played in front of over 1.000 people. The Skalls were nominated for the ‘South Tyrolean Music Award 2008’ in the category ‘Best Video’ where they reached place 2. Also in 2008 the group reached the Italian national finals of the Band contest ‘Local Heroes’ where they reached place 3.
The band is working on a new CD which will be published at the 1st of September and which has already been ordered all over the world.