Needle Breed: Junkie fucks beware
With a Vengeance: yeah we're an angry bunch!
British Oi is fighting back: You can't keep us down
The Final Terror: watch the skies folks

Expect a similar sound to the Retaliator split.

* Majority of your songs are about hard hitting subjects such as paedophiles and low-lifes , although you manage to stay away from politics such as left vs right issues. Was this a conscience decision or just something you don't care to sing about?
A lot of our songs touch on politics but subjects that we feel strongly about.  The whole left vs right thing never gets near any Bakers Dozen songs as we basically couldn't give a fuck
anyway. 

* What drives you to write songs about people who screw you over, such as ‘Hell‘s Your Place‘ and paedophiles as in ‘Rule 43‘ and ‘Hide Behind The Numbers‘?
Rule 43 was basically about how society cares for the wrong people.  I work in a job where l deal with Paedophiles, junkies, workshy
bastards and people who couldn't give a fuck about Britain and basically want a free ride everyday.  The law gives these bastards absolute priority over decent working class people and more than often tries to keep them down, I can't have my say to the Edinburgh council but I can have my say to skinheads and punks worldwide through guys like you.  Hells your place is about those who are obsessed over religion and Hide Behind the Numbers was a story about my mate Brian who got continuous dodgy phone calls from some spineless cunt.

* How's the Scottish Skinhead/Oi! Scene at the moment? Is there much of difference between it and the English scene?
Not a lot happens in Britain as a whole just now but people certainly try, it just never seems to work out.  I take part in the British scooter scene which seems to have its shit together if you want to have a good time get along to a rally.

* You are often compared to Retaliator, do you guys have some friendly rivalry going on, or is it a lot more nasty?
They are a shower of bastards!  (only kidding guys).  Retaliator have to be one of the best bands that we have ever had the pleasure of playing with and I only wish that we could do it more often.  Retaliator and On File REALLY helped us out and we will be eternally grateful to them for as long as Bakers Dozen exists.

* Does it at all bother you that people make this comparison?
I'm delighted that people compare us to them as they are one of my favourite bands and they have a sound that is quite untouchable.

* Are there any gigs you've played, or been to as a punter, which have stood out as the best?
Seeing Agnostic Front on the One Voice tour in 1992 was a blast as was seeing Condemned 84 for the first time.  I've seen loads of bands
lately in Germany that made me rush out and get their cds.

* Which bands do you recommend people have at least one release from in their
collections?
Everyone should have a copy of The Good The Bad and The 4 Skins as it's one of the best
skinhead albums ever.  Other great bands to check out include Kampzone,  Velorene Jungs and Toxpack all from Germany.

* I am assuming Bakers Dozen isn't a full-time job, how do you all spend your days?
Darius works for the council, Aldo works for a big insurance company, Thermos is a carpet
fitter and I work with Edinburgh's homeless (also for the council).

* Now there ain't 13 of you in the band, so where did the name come from?
That's a tricky one Fiona! Theres a lot of
different answers to this question but the one I usually go with is that the guy who came up with it was in an early version of the band and I don't see him much now, he would be the man to tell you.

* Apart from the album coming up, what else is in store for the Bakers Dozen future?
We just got back from a tour of Germany and had an almighty great time and hope to get back over when the new cd comes out.  The album will keep us very busy as will the fact that two of us have kids (one of whom has just been born).  We hope to get all over the place when the new cd comes out and we hope that our good friend Fiona will pay for flights for all of us to come over and play in Australia for two weeks solid.

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