Ski Patrol

Ski Patrol were a punk / post-punk band formed in Sunderland, north-east England, in autumn 1977 and were named after a track on John Cale's LP Slow Dazzle. Founder members Nick Clift (guitar) and Francis Cook were in experimental group The Debutantes, whereas Ian Lowery had been expelled from his own band, The Wall, who had had several singles released on Small Wonder.

After the band broke up, Clift went to work for Rough Trade and Lowery formed the Folk Devils.

Sessions

 * One session, available on [http://www.discogs.com/Ski-Patrol-Versions-Of-A-Life-Recordings-1979-1981/release/5472469 Versions Of A Life (Recordings 1979-1981).

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With Peel Sessions, you were always against the clock, and supposed to do four songs, which was standard, but we had this new piece called “Where The Buffalo Roam” which was barely rehearsed and Ian really wanted us to do it. It ran about seven minutes long, a tone poem almost, so Tony and Dale were very accommodating and we ended up doing three tracks but with a little more time spent on the production.

I used a kitchen knife to create the slide guitar tones, and they then looped a lot of the guitar harmonics to create atmospherics. They also double-tracked the drums so Al’s performance is super tight and punchy. The session sounded amazing if a little under-rehearsed on our part, but what we lacked in planning we made up for in the studio."'' (Nick Clift).

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