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Skutch was formed in 1991 by Mark Howard (Howie) and Paul Oswald (Ozzie). `We started out making music on a Thursday night. From the start it was Cover style songs which we loved. Ozzie & I had such different tastes.' In 1997 the name Skutch was taken as our band name and we had about 12 songs for our first CD `Long time coming'. We entered the studios and introduced ourselves to Ian Pritchett who owned Noisegate studios. `I said G'day to Ian and apologized for what we were about to make him record.' But he was a great person and the recording went well. After a big learning curve we finally got the CD together. Ian also regularly plays Bass guitar for us on our new music. Around 1998 Howie started to write an immense amount of new lyrics and melodies. `I remember hearing the song Rain for the first time. It was just me and Howie and he had this aweful zoom effects pedal which gave an eerie delay. I was playing the drums and the sound scape was very inspiring.' The second album