The Selecter
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The Specials, Madness, The Selecter: Electric Ballroom, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 4 August 1979
In the heat of the night ...
The Selecter: They Still Bear The Skas
Interview by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 8 September 1979
BLACK SHOES, bright socks, black shades, white shirt, black trilby, irridescent trousers a tad too short and chest-hugger jackets...Stepping down from the inter-city train to ...
2-Tone: Ska Authentic And More.
Report by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 6 October 1979
GARRY BUSHELL CHECKS OUT 2-TONE ...
Report and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 20 October 1979
SKANKING AND BACON SANDWICHES WITH THE SELECTER BY GARRY BUSHELL ...
Specials, Selecter, Dexy's Midnight Runners: Lewisham Odeon, London
Live Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 8 December 1979
Top skanking inna Lewisham ...
The Specials, The Selecter: Lyceum, London
Live Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 15 December 1979
TWO TOP FIVE two-tone bands in one night. The message comes through loud and clear: rude bwoy can't fail. ...
The Selecter: 'Two Tone, Black And White, That's The Whole Thing'
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 10 January 1980
Mike Stand (a sort of grubby grey) checks out The Selecter ...
The Selecter, The Bodysnatchers: Dingwalls, London
Live Review by Deanne Pearson, New Musical Express, 12 January 1980
THE LAST thing I heard in 1979 and the first thing I heard in 1980 were rocksteady ska rhythms from two bands connected with what ...
The Selecter: Too Much Pressure (2 Tone TT5002)*****
Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 9 February 1980
FIRST TIME I heard 'Three Minute Hero' I was convinced it was gonna be the single to bust the 2-Tone flush. Third time I heard ...
The Selector: Too Much Pressure (2-Tone CDLTT5002)
Review by Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, 9 February 1980
A GENT FROM a reggae shop asked me what I thought of 2-Tone. He informed me that since the advent of the checkerboard whirlwind, the ...
The Selecter: Survival Inna Suburbia
Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, 23 February 1980
IT TOOK HIM ages to get the lapel of his jacket off. The scissors kept on cutting the cloth instead of the bits of stitching, ...
The Selecter/The Bodysnatchers: Live Injection
Report by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 1 March 1980
ROCK HAD started to get very boring again. Very self-important and pompous. Old concepts were rearing up on young shoulders with bands raiding Pink Floyd ...
Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 16 March 1980
ROCK MUSIC'S vitality depends on a constant influx of new sounds. Just when American audiences are catching on to the three-year-old British punk/new-wave movement, a ...
The Selecter: Beyond Black And White
Interview by Richard Grabel, New York Rocker, September 1980
JERRY DAMMMERS must be reeling. The Specials' gap-toothed leader created a movement when he started the 2-Tone label, figuring that his own band would be ...
The End of 2-Tone: Madness/The Specials/The Selecter
Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, November 1986
Farewell, Madness – the last of the 2-Tone tribe. Phil Sutcliffe follows the fate of the three groups that pioneered the ska revival. ...
RAR! RAR! Disputin'! The History of Rock Against Racism
Retrospective by John Harris, New Musical Express, 16 October 1993
ON APRIL 16, 1990, a proud man who'd spent 27 years in the custody of a vicious racist regime arrived in London. He'd come to ...
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