Skint & Demoralised - Live Performances

Live Performances

With a live band of musicians from the Sheffield area, Skint & Demoralised only performed ten gigs before signing their record deal, all of which were in Sheffield and Wakefield.

Their first headline Tour was in February 2009 and included dates in Sheffield, Glasgow, Manchester, Oxford, Birmingham, Brighton, London, Leeds and finally Southampton. One particular feature of the live set included Matt Abbott's spoken word poems. During this Tour, he would perform the anti-racism poem "BNP: Nazis on the Doorstep" without a microphone and usually climbed on top of a nearby monitor or fixture to do so, thus raising him a few feet above the crowd.

He has supported and performed with Love Music Hate Racism since he very first began and has often spoken of his support for the organisation in interviews as well as in Blogs.

In March 2009 he supported one of his main idols - John Cooper Clarke - at The Duchess in York as part of a string of Spring dates before the next single campaign, including many headline shows across the North of England.

The band performed at several new music festivals in 2009 such as Camden Crawl in London and The Great Escape in Brighton as well as major festivals such as Glastonbury Festival, Wireless Festival in Hyde Park, London, Latitude Festival in Suffolk, Leeds and Reading Festival and Bestival on the Isle of Wight.

Over the summer of 2010, Abbott performed several Stand-up comedy gigs which included dates at Latitude Festival and Leeds Festival.