What's this ?

I stumbled across this rare Bodysnatchers clip on youtube.



Here's a little Do Rocksteady just for kicks

"The Ripps!" bring fresh blood to Coventry ska

Check these kids out!
Good punk! Great 2-tone! New Life! www.myspace.com/theripps

TONIGHT!

Bad Manners tonight @ Safari Sams with Monkey

A friend from work just told me about this. AWWWWWWW!!
I want to go! Somebody tell me how the show goes.
I want to know what "skinny" fatty is like live since he slimmed down.

The Bodysnatchers - Top of the Pops

Horace Panter's upcoming Specials book

"Ska'd for Life: A Personal Journey with The Specials "


Look what I stumbled across! Penned by the Specials drummer, Sir Horace "Gentleman" Panter, it's not just a fan book but an actual first hand autobiography. Well, I'm excited for this. According to Amazon, it's official release is in October, but you can pre-order it now here.

Ska'd for Life

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the loafers

"When a Skinhead, Walks Down the Street,
Every Chick heart, Skips a beat"

The Loafers were a British ska-revival band who arrived on the scene in the late '80s, well after the original Two-Tone movement according to which the group patterned itself. Specials/Selecter drummer John Bradbury was an early advocate and produced many of their records. After a ska festival at the London Astoria, Laurel Aitken tapped the Loafers for additional duties as a backing session band.

and im sure everyone already knows this and im just really behind, some good tunes i found on a music blog

The Loafers - Contagious

Train to skaville

awesome cover of the ethopians-train to skaville

Bad Manners with pauline black and neol davies(the selector)

The Piranhas - Tom Hark

I pulled this out of the massive, "songs G13 should cover" pile. It's the Piranhas version of the old tune, "Tom Hark". I know of a Millie Small ska version and also a skinhead reggae version by The Dynamites. But what makes this important (other than it charting in the top ten) is it that it later became a footie anthem that is still chanted by British sports fans and hooligans to this day. It has later been repackaged and marketed directly to soccer (I'm sorry, Futbol) fans and even covered by Seagulls Ska and our beloved Bad Manners.

The Piranhas were a punk band from Britian's briny blue beaches of Brighton. "Tom Hark" entered the charts in 1980; smack dab in the middle of the whole 2-tone craze. I understand that since they were primarily a punk band with no follow up ska song to match, The Piranhas fell into the pigeon hole of "the one-hit wonders" and broke up. Super catchy song though, eh?

Here they are in all of their glory as #26 on Top of the Pops. I love the drum kit set up in the front and the fishes for drum sticks. Hey! What's with the guitar playing with gloves on! We know you guys are lip synching and you know you guys are lip synching...could you try a little harder and fake it for us better? :D

This is why

Bad Manners - Ne Ne Na Na Na Nu Nu (live)

More cowbell, Buster.

2 Tone Archive Photos

I didn't know about this when the exhibition came out. It's a collection of photos documenting the 2tone era. The Body Snatchers, The Selecter, Madness & Bad Manners shot in various locations back in the day. I like the ska.

http://www.tonitye.com

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