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A&M AM227 1985 Belle and Sebastian. The Selecter. Living In A Box. Tin Machine. Talk Talk. Madness. The list of bands with eponymous songs is an unsurprisingly short one. I suppose Big Country almost got there with In A Big Country. It's a tougher thing to do when you're a solo artist, so kudos to two other nearly-made-its, Julian Cope's Julian H Cope (his middle name's actually David) and Mr Jeays...
Career-Spanning CD and Digital Album Features 21 of the UK Reggae Group's
Top Hits, Including 'Red Red Wine,' 'Here I Am (Come and Take Me),' and '(I
Can't Help) Falling In Love With You'
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- For more than 25 years, UB40
has been one of the world's premiere pop-reggae acts, with several
international chart-topping singles and global sales totaling more than...
Barry Murphy returns once more trawl the TV and radio guides (so you don't have to) to find anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from...
Wetdog Enterprise Reversal Release 21st July Review by Matt Killeen I had high hopes for this. A white label CD with 21 tracks on it has connotations of the Ramones or Napalm Death about it. I'm not too disappointed. It's...
“Double Barrel” Dave and Ansell Collins Big Tree Records. A Trojan Record Production. Written and produced by Winton Riley. (1971) One of the earliest recordings to feature renowned drummer Sly Dunbar, who was reportedly 14 when the song was recorded. The single reached #1 on the UK singles chart for two [...]
Day 8 at the Rochester International Jazz Festival was mostly a free floating experience. Ken and I met up and got a sandwich to eat from Java's, which gave us a respite from street meat for a day (although I...
The edition of Top of the Pops on the 8th November 1979 featured The Specials (A Message To You, Rudy), Madness (One Step Beyond), and The Selecter (On My Radio). UK pop buyers officially loved the “2 Tone” label. The distinctive checkered-strip logo was an instantly recognisable label of your pop allegiance — a [...]
"Phill Jupitus celebrates the phenomenon that was 2-Tone music. Thirty years ago bands such as the Specials, the Beat, Madness and the Selecter created a new sound born from a blend of punk, reggae and ska." Hear it while you can. I missed the 2 Tone bands the first time round and I’m really sorry that I did after listening to that inspiring programme last Saturday morning about the interplay of the...
Dearest Friends, this week Contrast Podcast asked us all to stop by and have a martini or twelve. It promised to be a cool, hip time, set to an excellent soundtrack including Tom Waits, Pink Martini, and Babyshambles. However, sometime during the course of the day someone came along and shut down the bar; the post has disappeared... I'm not sure who or what is to blame. Perhaps the nefarious S.L.I.M.E....
Following on from the Sex Pistols coasters we featured a while back, here's something similar from a slightly different era - Two Tone label coasters. A set of four coasters, printed 'using the latest sublimation techniques' and each featuring an...
Download audio file (DavesLounge-20070829.mp3) So the first song from this week’s show inspired me to go back into the vault and find some other tunes that had a bit of a groove to them. You've heard them all before, but I thought they all sounded good together. Hopefully, they'll help you enjoy these last few weeks [...]
