Steel Pulse
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Slits, Steel Pulse: Clouds, Brixton, London
Live Review by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 27 August 1977
Once more the NME asks the question on the lips of thousands: Is this woman a prat? Yup, 'fraid so says PENNY REEL ...
Profile by Robin Banks, ZigZag, September 1977
I FIRST SAW Steel Pulse the night Elvis Presley died. I was soaking wet from the pouring rain, couldn't afford a drink, and my equilibrium ...
Overview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 10 September 1977
ASWAD: Drummie, drums, vocals: George Oban, bass: Chaka Forde, rhythm guitar, vocals: Donald Guiti, lead guitar, vocals. Courtney Hennings, keyboards, vocals. ...
Steel Pulse: No Jah-Babble In-A Birmingham
Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 22 April 1978
REGGAE IS HIP. Punks said it was OK way back and how the parasitic shower of hustlers and sycophants who comprise the music biz are ...
Rock Against Racism Carnival: Victoria Park, Hackney, London
Report by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 6 May 1978
AS HE STOOD at the top of Whitehall at 10.35 last Sunday morning gazing impassively towards Nelson's Column, the optimism of Commander Walker of Scotland ...
Steel Pulse: Black Pride Don't Mean Black Racism... Meet — The Handsworth Klan
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 10 June 1978
Steel Pulse guitarist DAVID HINDS talks to ROY CARR about the joys and vexations of a British reggae band. ...
Steel Pulse: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 4 November 1978
THE RAINBOW Theatre seemed a poor venue for Steel Pulse's Big London Gig, but reconsidering during this performance, it was probably second choice only to ...
Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, September 1980
Linton Kwesi Johnson: Bass Culture (Mango); Blackbeard: I Wah Dub (UK, More Cut); Matumbi: Point of View (EMI America); Sugar Minott: Black Roots (Mango); Toots ...
Steel Pulsing After All These Years
Interview by Lloyd Bradley, New Musical Express, 1 May 1982
Lloyd Bradley takes the temperature of Handsworth's long distance dreads. ...
U2/Simple Minds/Eurythmics/Steel Pulse/Perfect Crime/Big Country: Phoenix Park, Dublin
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 20 August 1983
DATELINE DUBLIN: 3.30am Monday. There will no doubt be some measured reports of U2's home-coming gig. But I really hate measured reports. ...
U2, Simple Minds, Eurythmics, Big Country, Steel Pulse: A Day At The Racecourse
Report by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, 1 September 1983
A long, hot, emotional day it was too. Dublin's Phoenix Park throws open its gates to U2, Simple Minds, Eurythmics, Big Country and about 20,000 ...
Steel Pulse: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles
Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 1984
STEEL PULSE'S strong performance before a capacity audience at the Hollywood Palladium Friday night confirmed the veteran British sextet as one of the leading contenders ...
Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 22 September 1985
DAVID HINDS was not in the mood to mince words. The lead singer and chief songwriter of Steel Pulse was furious over the delay in ...
Punks, Nazis, Skins and the Clash's Finest Hour
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, August 2007
Rock Against Racism: Tom Robinson thinks of it as "the punk Woodstock" and it was the moment that punk went overground and people's band the ...
Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, Classic Pop, June 2019
Reggae may have been born in Jamaica, but it grew up in '80s Britain at a time of evolving multiculturalism, finding an unlikely ally in ...
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