The Phoenix City All-stars present a truly unique celebration of one of Britain’s most iconic labels in this year of the Olympics and Jamaica’s 50th year of independence celebrations. That’s a somewhat apt description of their debut album Two Tone Gone Ska soon to be released on Sean Flowerdew’s
For the Queen’s Diamond (that’s 60 years on the throne!) Jubilee ceremony the Nutty Boys were blessed to be asked to play from the roof of Buckingham Palace. What an idea! Beat that Beatles! Oh wait McCartney did do a couple songs too. Damn.
Of course it was an amazing performance as [...]
I found this short piece on Laurel Aitken. Not sure when it was made or for what but most likely a piece about the You get to see Sandra his wife and hear how he went about writing so many of his tunes. It goes into the late 70′s Two Tone revival period [...]
Just a couple of really cool shots I found online from the 2 Tone archives from the 2 Tone Tour Brighton Beach 1979. The whole gang is a casual repose. see the photos now.
Yeah me too. It’s such an interesting image – as stark as the song itself. I had thought the cover was an original piece but knowing so much about the band it makes perfect sense that it is an interpretation of an earlier piece of work. Most of their linage can be traced to earlier [...]
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