The Selecter (more here) do rank lower on 2-Tone pantheon for me just because "Too Much Pressure" is so face-meltingly good that it sometimes overshadows a lot of their other material (but I imagine I'm in the minority on this one).
BBC Sessions link is in the comments
Speaking of comments, where do you think The Selecter fit in the 2-Tone hierarchy?
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greatly appreciated!!
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jl3co1ccu8zx73u
great band. great blog
ReplyDeleteI'd call the Selecter 'under-rated.' Because they're not the best (or most popular) 2-tone band, they get no love. But they deserve love. Plenty of love. Pauline Black is a dynamo.
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Pauline Black is a huge two tone hero like she's more than the specials maybe, but the selecter as the band are not, i don't know if what i'm writing as any sense
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Pauline was totally a 'dynamo'.
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You're writing in praise of Pauline and that makes perfect sense.
Attended 'panic on the streets' session at 02 london on 7th June. a brilliant evening, the guest speakers include the great Pauline Black..however was most fascinated by the talk and images by Pogus Caesar who documented the 1985 Handsworth disturbances.
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INSIDE OUT: BBC TV. POGUS CAESAR RETURNS TO HANDSWORTH, UK.
In 1985 tension and community discontentment escalated into the historical Handsworth riots that rocked Birmingham UK between 9th - 11th September 1985.
Birmingham film maker and photographer Pogus Caesar knows Handsworth well. He found himself in the centre of the 1985 riots and spent two days capturing a series of startling images. Caesar kept them hidden for 20 years. Why? And how does he see Handsworth now?.
The stark black and white photographs featured in the film provide a rare, valuable and historical record of the raw emotion, heartbreak and violence that unfolded during those dark and fateful days in September 1985.
http://youtu.be/Ey7ijaXv6UQ
Nathan
ReplyDeleteFascinating story, hard to believe those photos laid untouched for so long.
Hello
ReplyDeleteThe link is dead please could you reup the link
Thanks so much
Hervé from France
Great blog
sorry for my English