Compiled by Arnaut,
I gathered the information in this FAQ, through looking at the mailinglist at Onelist and
questions asked and answered through email. Well until now not a lot, but hopefully more and more in
time.
Questions are in random order:
Please send any comments, additions, corrections or suggestions for
this FAQ to arnaut@ch.twi.tudelft.nl
started at September 2th 1999
last update
A: Emerald by Thin Lizzy from their album Jailbreak (March 1976).
(Skyclad vers. on Tracks from the Wilderness)
Prime Evil by Venom.
(Skyclad vers. on Venom Tribute cd)
Dreamer Deceiver by Judas Priest.
(Skyclad vers. on Judas Priest Tribute cd)
Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners.
(Skyclad vers. on Oui Avant-Garde á Chance)
Master Race by New Model Army.
(Skyclad vers. on Oui Avant-Garde á Chance)
A: There are none avialable, but there was one sold with the
Jonah's Ark album, with promo and interviews with Martin and
Steve.
A: Yes, there are a few. "Emerald", "Thinking Allowed?", "Art
Nazi" (live Dynamo95), "Building a Ruin" (live Wacken '98,
released on Vintage Whine as multimedia track) and
"Inequality Street". [Does anyone know more?]
A: You can get them through the fanclub. Look elsewhere for the address to write to. (There are
also some internet shops that have some stuff, but that's on your own risk.)
A: Subway to Sally is a german band that performes about the same style of music as Skyclad.
They use some more classic influenses and sing in German. They performed on the Skyclad
album Oui Avant-Garde a Change.
A: Well the first albums until 1995 (the Silent Whales of Lunar Sea) and the compilation Old
Rope were released by Noise. But the contract ended because Noise fucked up a lot, and Skyclad
didn't want to continue.
A: It looks like Massacre Records didn't want to renew the contract because the sales number
were not what they had expected. It all went alright until the Answer Machine? album.
A: The old English word Skyclad come from "sky clad", which
literally means "wearing the sky", which means naked.
The word was used how pagan warriors went into battle.
Martin Walkyier explains the name more like nakedness in the sense
of being honest and not hiding behind anything.
A: [by Eddie Edwards] Martin Walkyier was the vocalist and lyricist for Sabbat, and wrote two
albums with Andy Sneap for this band - History of a Time to Come and Dreamweaver, the latter
being a concept album based upon the book The Way of Wyrd by Dr Brian Bates. After creating a
large following, the band had an argument (Martin got pissed off with Andy Sneap's ego) and
Martin left. Sabbat proceded to record a new album without Martin, but the flame had gone out
and the band split up soon afterwards.
Martin was always a Pagan at heart, as shown in his
lyrics, and says that he was never really happy in Sabbat, as the band didn't share his enthusiasm for
this side of the music. However, Martin had a lot of unused lyrics already written (according to one
interview, he has enough to publish a book of them!) and got together with Steve Ramsey, who had
recently left Pariah, to do an album which was more along the lines of what Martin had always wanted
to do.
Steve wrote the music; Martin supplied the lyrics, and they went into a studio to lay down the
tracks for the Wayward Sons of Mother Earth album. Whereas Dreamweaver was a thrash metal album which,
although excellent, still had the basic formula of many thrash albums of the time, the new album used
keyboards, violins, and a lot of very original riff-structures and tunes. The album is a non-stop
classic (IMHO!) and features a superb first track (The Sky Beneath My Feet), a classic thrash song
(The Cradle Will Fall), a thrash-jig (The Widdershins Jig) and, of course, the anthem Skyclad
itself.