8 piece authentic Ska band
SKA-BOOM! are the North East's newest and most exciting Ska music sensation. Formed in mid February 2008, a group of Teesside based musicians formed the band through a wanted advert in a local music magazine that had been placed by drummer Matt. The band was put together through a genuine love of ska music and all things 2Tone.
After initially meeting for the first time, the 8 lads decided that it was time to put Ska music back into peoples minds and back into Teesside, the North East and beyond, and set out to find a local rehersal room. Rehersals commenced less than a week later and got off to a great start. As the band members were all familiar with the Ska music format through a mutual love of the whole Ska and 2Tone scene, the actual replication of the songs came very easily.
An amazing amount of interest and support has been shown by many local people, bars, pubs and clubs and the whole nostalga factor of the music and authentic sound and appearence of the band has generated the re-ignition of a scene that has been out of peoples minds for many years.
We are a working class Ska band who are not out to make big money, but to go out, play our music and have fun. We have the authentic Ska sound of an infectious dance beat and rich brass section remenisant of the Ska scene of the early 80's. The privilige of replicating songs by our heroes such as The Specials, Bad Manners, Madness and other Ska legends is a true honour for us and the actual resemblance of our sound to the original music score is uncanny.
The demo was recorded by us 100% live and in one take, no click track, samples or recordings were used, the only modification is that the disc has been professionaly mastered from our live sound before being put onto the demo cd.
Our aim is to put on a upbeat, entertaining show of party Ska music for people of all ages to enjoy, sing and dance to and to take people back to the original dance and party music phenomemon that is - SKA DANCE CRAZE!
Please see our sister site -
http://www.freewebs.com/skaboom
Hey guys, Well done good stuff. People on the street were shoutin our name and stopping us on the street after the gig, Some even said we were the best band they had seen on the day.
