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History
"Get in, Get Fucked and Get out", these are the 7 words that prompted the existence of Viking Skull. Realizing that the 4 years on the road with Raging Speedhorn had temporarily stopped for a well earned break, assorted members of RSH band and Crew faced the very real prospect of the booze drying up for a few months. Roddy Stone, RSH's long time guitar tech reasoned with the rest of Speedhorn, still left in Corby, that all they had to do for the free beer to continue was form a local band and play local clubs. "It's gonna be easy" he said, "All we gotta do is, get in, get fucked and get out."
So, as with many great things in rock music, the impetus for the formation of Viking Skull was alcohol. Free alcohol at that. For Roddy, Darren, Gordon, Frank and Waldie, the lure of a free pint was enough to encourage them to play a few songs at a local jam night, held weekly at the ex-serviceman's club in their home town of Corby. Their improvised sessions combined foot-stomping old-school metal riffs with bluesy overtones and elaborate guitar solos. The ex-serviceman's club shut down, but that wasn't going to get between these musicians and their beer, and they soon relocated to the jam night at Kettering Town Football Club a few miles away.
