Early Jamaican music....ska/rocksteady/reggae.....from the Crystalites to the Paragons, from Derrick Morgan to Techniques......also, UK bands the Cosmics and 100 Men for leading the way in how it should be done....and US bands Hepcat and the Slackers for setting standards still not beaten. Boss.
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Been called in the press, 'the UK Skatalites'...very nice...also Metal Hammer said we were the UK equivalent of Hepcat, extra nice!!
There are so many good bands playing so called 'trad' ska now, anywhere between Hepcat, Rude Rich,the Slackers and the Aggrolites would make us happy! But everyone has their own flavour, as Greg from Hepcat said..so we sound like us!! It's uncluttered, not too jazzy, plain and hard hitting like the old ska records.....and we write tunes how we think they would have been written....no pop bridges etc where we can help it...but we do like to play the full deck of cards....not just ska instrumentals or skinhead reggae...everything is in the live set.
Playing our own authentic ska/reggae/rocksteady stylings across Europe now for 16 years, with the help of Moskito Promotions. Had the great fortune of playing with and enjoying so many of our heroes, and all the contemporary big guns of ska and reggae....from Rico, Prince Buster, Alton Ellis, Dave Barker, Laurel, Des Dekker, Winston Francis, Dennis Alcapone, Skatalites... to Hepcat, Aggrolites,Dr Ring Ding, Toasters, Selecter, Slackers, etc etc....it's been a blast!!
Check out our releases on Grover Records.........3 studio albums and one live one, aswell as a comp of our early stuff....now a firm headline act in Europe, guaranteed to whip up a storm!!
Check out the stations that support the scene and us.........
JUST A LITTLE REMINDER THAT ANOTHER INSTALLMENT OF PURE NICENESS IS COMING YOUR WAY SAT 11th JULY 2009, WHEN 'MUSICAL FEVER' PROUDLY PRESENTS TWO OF THE UK'S, IF NOT THE WORLDS, LEADING REVIVE DJ'S PLAYING DEEP SELECTIONS OF REGGAE, SKA & ROCK STEADY FOR YOUR MUSICAL PLEASURE.
SAT JUNE 20th - DJ Cello's COAST TO COAST will celebrate it's 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY @ ON THE ROCKS with live guests THE LEGENDARY DAVE BARKER (Double Barrel) & the INTENSIFIED.
DAVE BARKER & INTENSIFIED LIVE @ COAST TO COAST - SAT JUNE 20th
THE LEGENDARY DAVE BARKER
Dave Barker (born David Crooks, 1948, Franklyn Town, Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae and rocksteady singer who has released a string of solo albums along with recordings as a member of The Techniques and as half of the duo Dave and Ansell Collins. Dave Barker and the fantastic the ska outfit Intensified will play live at Coast to Coast to celebrate it's 10 Year anniversary. Dave Barker had hit singles with "Shocks of a Mighty" and "Spinning Wheel" (with melanie Jonas), followed in 1970 by his debut album Prisoner of Love. March 1971 brought international fame as part of a duo with Ansell Collins. "Double Barrel" was a number 1 hit in the United Kingdom, and was also the first recording on which drummer Sly Dunbar played."Double Barrel" was followed in June of the same year with a number 7 UK hit in the form of "Monkey Spanner".
Watch Dave in action with his most famous hit "Double Barrel" by clicking the video below.
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