From The "English" Beat's initial release "I Just Can't Stop It". Love this tune, love the horns - real fun stuff. The Beat were formed in Birmingham, England in 1978. Ranking Roger, one of the band's vocalists, added a Jamaican vocal flavor to the band's sound with his toasting style. Jamaican saxophonist Saxa (b. Lionel Martin, 1930, aka Papa Saxa) added a Jamaican ska instrumental sound. Sa...
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I don't know how he does it, but Dave Wakeling from the English Beat is still going strong after 30 years of live gigging! We (The Uptones) had the honor of playing with them last night in Oakland, at the Uptown night club.The house was jam packed! A testament to the new thriving music seen in the Uptown district of Oakland, California. Yes they all came out last night. Around 11pm The English ...
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...three of my dream gigs, if I could go back in time, would be to work for Atlantic Records around the time they got Big Joe Turner - through the Aretha/ Coltrane years and right on up to the days of Led Zeppelin...another is working at Island when Chris Blackwell had signed the the Wailers and then the Slits and up to when he had just grabbed U2 would've been tight...thirdly working at the Be...
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I am *DANCING IN MY CUBE* TO THIS ONE KIDDIES... if you're stuck in an *OFFICE SPACE*... hope you are too :)
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The English Beat, one of the pre-eminent second-wave ska bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s, are touring again this summer, hitting a few spots in the US and a bunch in the UK and more or less taking up residence at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach (CA?). If you were around for the first few years of MTV, songs like "Mirror in the Bathroom," "I Confess" and "Save It for Later" are, mos...
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1. English Beat, "Mirror in the Bathroom." If the early-80s 2-Tone groups from England were Ska Revivalists, what are the later Ska Revival Revivalists called? Among the possibilities listed in Wikipedia: third wave ska, ska punk, ska-core.2. Blondie, "Call Me." The other evening, I was watching Evil Dead II for the billionth time. My wife and I started wondering how it was that Sam Raimi and B...
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One of my favorite songs by the English Beat is Mirror in the Bathroom, which I often hum in the shower...silly huh? It just seems fitting, especially since Dave Wakeling wrote the song while showering for work one day. I have had the pleasure of meeting him several times now, a wonderful perk of being the girlfriend of Moose from the Uptones. And the best part for me? Watching Dave walk ov...
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