**MOD FEST**, featuring **THE BEAT** performing all their classic 80s hits; Tears Of A Clown, Mirror In The Bathroom , Hands Off She’s Mine to name a few. Also on the bill Bruce Foxton's **FROM THE JAM** performing classic Jam songs; Start, That’s Entertainment, Going Underground, Eaton Riffles,...

17 Dec: Our Christmas countdown continues with this festive playlist from Tricky Tricky shows off his disparate influences with a playlist that features everything from NWA to Kylie Minogue ... Tricky's playlist Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit Flyman – Kingston Logic Tinie Tempah – Pass Out Kylie Minogue – Slow The Beat – Mirror in the Bathroom PJ Harvey – 50ft Queenie Public Enemy – Bring the Noise NWA – Straight Outta Compton Eden James – My Addiction Lil Kim – Lighters Up London Posse – Gangster Chronicle Tricky Pop and rock guardian.co.uk/music guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject ...

So we've seen what Dexys did pretty much single-handedly, and single-mindedly, to become both commercial successes and cult greats, but what was actually in their chart radar? Presenting the top 40 of 4th May 1980: 40 Liquid Gold - Dance Yourself Dizzy Steve Lamacq recalls the dedication to their job of whoever got the job of typing out the lyrics to this in Smash Hits, beginning "D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-dizzy!" 39 Junior Murvin - Police And Thieves The Clash version had been around for three years but there's suggestion, any if anyone knows better do tell, that it took until now for Island ...

The sun hadn’t set for long on the era of Prince Buster and Desmond Dekker when it was revived and adapted in the late 1970’s. Music from the ska revival is now known as 2Tone , so named for the recording company 2 Tone Records in Conventry that was so instrumental to its development. 2 tone music was more or less the offspring of a fling between classic 60’s ska and contemporary 70’s punk and pop music, with a faster tempo than first-wave ska and more aggressive guitar. In a time of racial unrest, 2Tone had the ...

There’s certain things one just isn’t bold enough to ever expect—having seen Jello Biafra play live was certainly one of those—as was Billy Brag, both gigs I got to attend already in 2010. Another such moment was this Saturday seeing ska legends/pioneers at New York City ’s legendary and quite intimate Webster Hall. Less known but equally influential “Bad Manners” opened the night, with a slightly more swing influenced ska set, that got the crowd dancing, energized and set for The English Beat who promptly took the stage at 9 pm, and wouldn’t leave ...

Downtempo/leftfield electronic outfit Belleruche do an ace job of breathing some new life into 2nd wave ska classic Mirror In The Bathroom by The English Beat (or simply The Beat depending on what side of the pond you grew up on). Belleruche – Mirror In The Bathroom Enjoy! LS

I do not like going to shows to see my past idols. They're old, they're out of touch parodies. Shells of their former self's. It makes me sad. More than sad is that I feel bad for the performer, well what else do they have? Not much but the ability to relive their glory days. Sorta like their audience. Has beens. Pathetic. Wrong. The English Beat took over Toads Place ("where the legends play'!!) last night. When I say they took it over I most certainly mean it. The room at about 70 when we arrived, had ...

The English Beat formed in Birmingham in the UK back in 1978. This ska revivalist group featured alternating lead vocals from guitarist Dave Wakeling and toaster Ranking Roger and an actual touch of Jamaica in Saxa, a former Desmond Dekker sax player. The band (known as the Beat outside of North America) quickly found success [...]

The English Beat : Sorry [ purchase ] I am sorry that I missed last week's challenge, being on vacation ("up north" in the vernacular of the natives) and away from my computer. This is kind of a two-fer, then, although I'd have chosen this song anyway. The English Beat (or simply The Beat in Britain) was probably one of the better-known ska revival bands that popped up in England in the late 70's (as did The Selector, who Darius featured a few weeks back). They banged out albums in 1980, 1981, and 1982 and then broke up to form ...

No good music is made these days. That's the stock line people of a certain age cling to when they see JLS on television, and it was one given house room to advance in Metro this week, wherein the reliably useless Keith Barker-Main was given space for this: Listening to the top 40 recently Well, that's obviously where to start any consideration of the broader sweep of music. He probably didn't listen to it anyway, he read it. any lingering notion that Britain's musical tastes are superior to the rest of the world's was finally ...

Gaz Coombes e Danny Goffey, respectivamente guitarrista/vocalista e baterista do Supergrass, criaram um ótimo projeto paralelo chamado Hot Rats para gravar covers de bandas que eles gostam. O primeiro álbum, chamado 'Turn Ons', sai agora em janeiro nos EUA e em Londres. A lista de covers é ótima e bem diversificada: "I Can't Stand it" - The Velvet Underground "Bik Sky" - The Kinks "The Crystal Ship" - The Doors "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right" - The Beastie Boys "Damaged Goods" - Gand of Four "Love is the Drug" - Roxy Music "Bike" - Pink Floyd "Pump it Up" - Elvis Costello "The Lovecats" - The ...

- Frequenze News - Se siete amanti delle cover preparatevi all'uscita dell'anno. I due terzi dei Supergrass (Gaz Coombes, Danny Goffey) hanno deciso di rivisitare molti classici ( Beatles , Velvet Underground , Bowie , Beastie Boys , etc.) secondo la loro personale visione musicale sotto lo pseudonimo di The Hot Rats . Album dal titolo "Turn Ons" in uscita entro la fine di gennaio. E' inutile girarci intorno: se sei un musicista, uno dei piaceri più grossolani che puoi ottenere subito dal tuo strumento è quello di suonare qualcosa che ti piace. Dall'alba dei tempi le cover servono proprio a questo: puro divertimento. E ...

If you're like me then the first time you probably heard Andy Williams ' Can't Get Used To Losing You was via The English Beat (or as our fUKing friends across the pond know them, simply, The Beat ). Because of that I've always had a hard time parsing this tune from anything but a ska/rocksteady context. So for today I've rounded up a small collection of reggae,ska,rocksteady and punk versions. Minus the aforementioned Beat, we also have more Jamaican influenced cuts from Alton Ellis , Jimmy London , Keith Myrie , Danny Ray , Barry Biggs and Bad ...

For any newcomers, during this whole month-long exercise in the self-indulgent we take our critical faculties to a set of Christmas top forties of previous years, because at least right at the top they must be more exciting than what's happening now. While putting this whole month together we noticed that by happy coincidence we hadn't previously done the charts from ten, twenty and thirty years ago, which is an oversight anyway as they for the most part have fascinating number ones and backstories lower down, so let's start with an extraordinary top 40 in so many ...

Nearly 15 years ago to the day Supergrass exuberantly hit the scene during the Brit Pop revolution , releasing "Caught by the Fuzz" and starting a career that , unlike most from back then, would still be alive and as fresh as ever today. The Hot Rats is two thirds Supergrass , Gaz Coombes' and Danny Goffeys' tribute to their favourite artists and songs. A self confessed 'Strange Experiment'. Radiohead Producer Nigel Godrich has kept his skills in Oxfordshire to work on the album , 'Turn Ons', due for release in January 2010 and tonight we hear it all. Rock , Punk , Ska and Hip ...