Thursday, January 27, 2011

The Selecter: BBC Sessions



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).


And here's one argument against my thesis:



BBC Sessions link is in the comments

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    Some Selecter comments would be...







    greatly appreciated!!








    http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jl3co1ccu8zx73u

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  2. I'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.

    And thanks for all of the 2-tone posts.

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  3. 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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  4. Guy.
    All true! (thanks)

    Brink
    Pauline was totally a 'dynamo'.

    doud
    You're writing in praise of Pauline and that makes perfect sense.

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  5. 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.

    find out more here:


    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

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  6. Nathan

    Fascinating story, hard to believe those photos laid untouched for so long.

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  7. Hello

    The link is dead please could you reup the link
    Thanks so much

    Hervé from France

    Great blog
    sorry for my English

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