Last weeks Monday Video Flashback was a classic if a video from only about 10 years ago can be called a “classic”. That just goes to show you what we have to work with on the ska video scene. I think we need to have more bands doing videos. That’s what MTV did for mainstream [...]
Check out this cool little interview with some of the principles from the movie “Babylon” including:
Franco Rosso
Italian-born director and editor, who has worked on everything from Ken Loach’s Kes to the films of black director Horace Ove.
Martin Stellman
Babylon co-screenwriter who also wrote Quadrophenia and For Queen And Country.
Gavrik Losey
Babylon producer and son of [...]
One of the most highly regarded cult British films of the 1980s, Babylon comes to DVD for the first time ever in the UK this October courtesy of Icon Home Entertainment, boasting fully restored and remastered image and audio (personally overseen by Chris Menges) plus Audio Commentaries, Interviews and feature on the restoration.
Directed by Franco [...]
Hepcat needs to play another show and soon dammit. This is a fact. Hepcat is (not was) the number one modern ska band in the world. That is impossible to argue against. The live shows are always sweat drenched affairs. The music is intoxicating and man can they dance! The twin vocal delivery of Alex [...]
This is a funny self published comic about ska and skinheads in the early 80’s U.S. Ska scene. It’s a great read from the prospective of someone who was there.
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