Nite Songs

  "Caught on the back step, I find myself trippin'"  - King Prawn  - Someone To Hate Ska punk is one of those genres that seems to undergo a resurrection on an almost yearly basis. Sometimes it's good when you get a group of fired up young agitators equally influenced by reggae and punk ready to unleash a vitriolic state of the world address (see the likes of Sonic Boom Six, the Skints and Millie Manders and the Shut-Up in recent years) and sometimes it's basically a bunch of fat lads in Hawaiian shirts doing comedy skanking cover versions and being less about smashing the system than flushing the cistern. And, let's be honest, the whole late '90s/early '00s era had a lot of the latter and not many of the former (names withheld but if you were there I'm sure you've got your own memories of it). Happily though, in amongst the dross we did have the odd genuinely good band and King Prawn were one such example. Similar to Pitchshifter , who we cove...