If sugar, spice and all things nice really was the ingredients to make little girls, then the recipe for Ax Minster Scotchguard and the Numskulls must surely be beer and a good old Sunday Roast after a hard day down' pit. Imagine if you will: good old modern UK pop-punk The Numskulls; combining talents with the wailings and statements of the local-to-Mansfield-accent-supporting Ax Minster Scotchguard; what you get isn't so much a voice in the crowds of the suppressed as an alcohol fuelled interpretation of how and why the world is- my example being the now famous "Yes Car Credit," and the observation that "even if you're on the dole, you can fuckin' get it." Not the most delicate of political and social commentary's you'll find on pub stages, but bloody hell- great fun!

Axminster Scotchguard & the Numskulls herald from a sleepy mining town in the north Nottinghamshire part of England (to any Americans reading is near Paris). The band formed purely out of boredom with nothing else to do but drink beer in copious quantities. So these days they like to combine drinking with play some.