Since those heady days of '79/'80, The Selecter have been one of the more prolific of the bands, still playing with original members, Pauline Black and Gaps Hendrickson, fronting the band. As I write this they are about to release a new studio album, 'Human Algebra'.
Here is a recording of the band down in New Orleans at the Ole Man Rivers Club. It surprises me that 2 Tone enjoyed a fair degree of success Stateside, in contrast with some of the British punk bands that tried to crack America a couple of years earlier and largely failed. One of the reasons for this failure was considered to be the fact that some of those bands, The Jam in particular (one of our biggest bands at the time), were thought of as being 'too English'. I think on paper, the same could be said for the 2 Tone bands. The songs and their delivery were rather Anglo-centric and yet American audiences took them to heart. Perhaps it was the energy. Certainly, a few years later, a US ska revival took place ('Rancid', 'The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' etc) that owed everything to the bands that trailblazed across the US back in 1980.
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