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Natural Rhythm UK

Professional Ska Band. Natural Rhythm are: Tony "Bootsy" Boyce: Bass guitar, Lead vocals Roger Mitchell - Rhythm Guitar, Lead Vocals Gary "Beefy" Metcalfe - Keyboards,vocals Paul Yogi issacs lead guitar, vocals SIMON LOUIS HUNTER, DRUMS. Ian Bigmac Macintosh - Trumpet and vocalsdave birbeck - tromboneNatural Rhythm are a 7 piece Ska / Reggae band from Bradford, which specialise in Rimshot led raw Ska and Bluebeat.

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The Selecter

The Selecter were a British ska revival band from Coventry, formed in the late 1970s as one of the essential bands of the British ska movement. Much of what set apart The Selecter from many of the other ska bands at the time was the voice of Pauline Black. She had to disguise herself as a man in order for the band to get gigs, but once they did, there was no disguising her voice. Like other ska bands of this movement, The Selecter featured a racially mixed line up, and songs about violence, politics, marijuana, a fictional spy's theme song, James Bond, and reggae classics.

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Bad Manners

Bad Manners are an English 2-Tone Ska band fronted by Buster Bloodvessel and formed in 1976 at Woodberry Down Comprehensive School,North London, where the members studied.
At the beginning, none of the eight members played any instrument.
The members are :
Buster Bloodvessel - Vocals
Simon Cuell - Guitar
Lee Thompson -Bass
Richie Downs - Keyboards
Matt Goodwin - Sax
Matt Bane - Drums
Colin Graham - Trumpet
Russel Wynn - Percussion

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The Hotknives

Ska legends The Hotknives were originally formed in 1982 in England by a group of friends interested in ska, dub, reggae and Northern Soul. They recorded two live albums, "Live at the boatman" and "Live and Skanking" before recording their first studio album, "The Way Things Are" in 1989. Having reached the top of the 3rd Wave ska scene and been banned from Radio in the UK, the band decided to call it a day in 1993.

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Too Many Crooks

TOO MANY CROOKS are:
Dave Cook - Guitar, Vocals
Marlon Johnson - Bass, Vocals
Alan Perry - Saxophone, Vocals
Tony Fish - Trumpet
Bradley Tullett - Hammond & Keyboards
Scotty Saunders - Drums & percussion TOO MANY CROOKS were formed following a Bad Manners gig in Brighton. The group of friends felt that Ska music needed to be dragged kicking and screaming into the next millennium if it was ever going to haul itself out of the underground, where it had been left to fester since the end of the Two-Tone Era.

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The Loafers

The Loafers were a British ska-revival band who arrived on the scene in the late '80s, well after the original Two-Tone movement according to which the group patterned itself. Specials/Selecter drummer John Bradbury was an early advocate and produced many of their records. After a ska festival at the London Astoria, Laurel Aitken tapped the Loafers for additional duties as a backing session band.

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Two Tone Club

Depuis l'an 0, naissance de l'Original Ska Band, Two Tone Club sillonne l'Europe et distille à travers des prestations live explosive, une musique d'inspiration jamaïcaine aux accents british. Enflammant la plage des eurockéennes en 2004, les 9 RudeBoys viennent de sortir un album haut en couleur "TURN OFF".

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Neville Staple

Neville Staple was a composer and a singer for The Specials, and was one of the founding members of the Fun Boy Three. He has worked with such legends as Elvis Costello (The Specials 1979 - Chrysalis Records), David Byrne (Fun Boy 3 Waiting 1983 - Chrysalis Records), and Ali Campbell (Today's Specials 1996 - Kuff Records/Virgin), to name only a few. Some of Neville's recent projects and collaborations include hooking up with Roger Lomas, in Coventry...

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