Trojan-Ska Revival boxset trg music release

TROJAN SKA REVIVAL BOX SET - It was in the summer of '79 that the U.K.'s youth finally learned to dance again. After three years of pogo-ing to the sound of Punk and posing with the New Wave posse, 'The Kids' decided it was time to Skank and providing the musical backdrop was the Two Tone Ska revolution, a multi-racial, multi-acted sound and image that filled the dancefloors and the live venues.

Taking their cue from the late 60's Ska movement spearheaded by the likes of Desmond Dekker, the Pioneers, Greyhound, Prince Buster etc..., and pioneering record labels, like Trojan and Blue Beat, the 2 Tone label was set up in Coventry as an outlet for the seven piece SPECIALS. Led by vocalist, Terry Hall and keyboardist Jerry Dammers - along with vocalists Neville Staples and Lynval Golding, bassist Horrace Panter, drummer John Bradbury and guitarist Roddy Radiation - the Specials had originally started life as THE COVENTRY AUTOMATICS, with many of the tracks they recorded under that name (and featured on this box set) making up the first Specials LP. The July '79 rallying cry of 'Don't call me scarface' on their debut 45, 'Gangsters', encouraged numerous other artists to follow in their wake, but few managed to merge the Specials' blend of Ska, street politics and particularly sussed cover versions quite like they did. Eleven hit singles - including No. 1's with 'Too Much Too Young' and 'Ghost Town' - was an impressive chart haul by anybody's standards but not as many as North London's BAD MANNERS, who managed to go one better in scoring a dozen chart entries in just under three years. The sight of a bald 16 stone man dressed in a pink tutu ans DM boots doing the Can Can on 'Top Of The Pops' still rates as one of pop music's most bizarre images, but for vocalist Doug Trendle AKA Buster Bloddvessel it was an everyday nothing out of the ordinary thing to do! If The Specials bought a politic to the Ska movement then Buster & Co (along with Madness) gave it a much needed helping of humour. Odes to ale (@Special Brew') and a plastic blow-up doll ('Lorraine'), plus self-mockery ('Lip Up Fatty') may not have earned the band critical acclaim, but certainly found favour with the record buyers.



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