Relations of the Reelings and the Skinners have popped up in many and various guises through the history of our endeavours 
The Skinners are an East End Family of characters first appearing at a very, very muddy Bestival On crawling through a 1950s settee, visitors  found themselves in a  period bedsit in the back of a Luton Van to be met by the family with a warm, friendly old skool welcome, a bowl of homemade soup, a glass of sherry and an east end sing song.

‘Tea with the Skinners’ - was part of the Great British Road Trip- which was made on a bursary that we won from the incredible Vauxhall Collective   The kids were still ‘overgrown’, the tea and sherry still flowed and the food was still delicious-  guests were treated as  invitees to a 1950s Birthday tea for Auntie Evie - a young woman poised on the threshold of a marriage, a new start with the shadowy Dickie.

As for the Reelings - relations and associates of Mr Gideon Reeling Esq 
first airiing at a 
1980s wedding  in Euston. Eva Skinner’s daughter, was married to Gil Reeling – younger brother to our Gideon, who sadly was on important business out of the country for the occasion (so his admiring fans STILL didnt get to meet him). The marriage was not a big hit with their father and his estranged wife Brenda but The Wedding was a knees up to be remembered and was even attended by some of the prestigious "families" who joined the game of the Great British Road Trip.

Captain Granville Reeling steered the good ship HMS Ulysses for Secret Productions' Christmas 2009 party at the Troxy  for example) and long may they continue to do so.

The Skinner kids, Beano and Lillian, went on to found TBGAMDA - The Theydon Bois and Girls Academy for Musical and Dramatical Arts  from which the amazing Heart &; Soul, winners of the Yes Factory  . And many will remember Beano Skinner from his part in the production of the 1980s single with Geronimo, "Red is the Colour".