Many of those migrants ended up settling in industrial centers like Birmingham and Coventry, where they shared ska music with the locals. The Midlands was also home to 2 Tone Records, a short ...

UK ska legends The Selecter join UB40 featuring Ali Campbell, Damien Dempsey and The Beatles Dub Club for a show at the TUS ...

The combination of punk and ska defined the 2 Tone sound, while the social climate gave the bands a strong political and anti-racist attitude. According to Ali Wells, another curator on the show, the ...

Most of the 2-Tone bands (The Specials, Madness, The Selecter, The Beat etc) married Jamaican ska to punk attitude, The Selecter more than most. When Pauline calls herself "the living embodiment ...

The Selecter were just one of many bands to come from the ska and 2 Tone era Award-winning writer Steven Knight is to create a new BBC drama series set in the era of ska and 2 Tone music.

Narrated by Tim Armstrong (Rancid, Operation Ivy, The Transplants), the series traces the roots of New York Hardcore, British 2-Tone Ska, and German Krautrock with conversations with the founders of ...

Come join us sailing the Thames, taking in London's historic sights, all to the sounds that inspired and defined the 2 Tone era. The music of ... have been promoting ska since 1988 and host ...

Come join us sailing the Thames, taking in London's historic sights, all to the sounds that inspired and defined the 2 Tone era. The music of ... have been promoting ska since 1988 and host ...