Artist: SKYCLAD
Album: ANOTHER FINE MESS (CD)

Year: 2001
Media type: CD

The lineup remained stable for the recording of 2000's Folkйmon, but founding member Walkyier left the band in 2001, citing various reasons, such as financial difficulties or the bands unwillingness to tour in South America owing to security concerns as the final straw, though other band members have commented that his somewhat acerbic personality was one of the major contributing factors to the group's lineup instability. Walkyier went on to form The Clan Destined. For many fans, Walkyiers lyrics and delivery style were one of the band's central attractions, and there were fears that his departure spelled the end of the band. After replacing drummer Jay Graham (who left shortly after Walkyier) and moving Kevin Ridley onto vocals, the group sprang into action to remedy these fears with 2002's No Daylights... Nor Heel Taps which featured studio recordings of "Irish Pub versions" of Skyclad classics by the new line-up, proceeded by a single, 2001's "Swords of a Thousand Men". The single's title track, a cover tune (originally recorded by Tenpole Tudor), also appeared on Folkйmon as a bonus track, although in a different version. The single featured two recordings of the track, one of them with Ridley on vocals and one with Ridley sharing the microphone with Ten Pole Tudor's vocalist Edward Tudor-Pole. The single/album release was accompanied by the 'The Same...But Different' tour, the largest Skyclad had undertaken for many years. Also in 2001 the band released Another Fine Mess, which featured live recordings from 1995 and the contents of the Outrageous Fourtunes EP.

TRACKLIST:

01 "Intro" (Live)
02 "Another Fine Mess" (Live)
03 "Cardboard City" (Live)
04 "Art-Nazi" (Live)
05 "The Wickedest Man in the World" (Live)
06 "The One Piece Puzzle" (Live)
07 "Still Spinning Shrapnel" (Live)
08 "Just What Nobody Wanted" (Live)

09 "Sins of Emission" (acoustic)
10 "Land of the Rising Slum" (acoustic)
11 "Alone in Death's Shadow" (acoustic)
12 "Spinning Jenny" (acoustic)