I had the great pleasure of following my son Danny onto the 'airwaves' tonight. My playlist duplicates his a little - we both played Bombskare, The Specials, The Maytals & Prince Buster. I like to think this shows we both have incredibly good taste rather than a lack of imagination!
I couldn't resist playing the version of Double Barrel from TOTP introduced by Tony Blackburn that I referred to in an earlier post this week; likewise the following 2 songs from Nicky Thomas & Freddie Notes were in a similar vein. I also referred to Drewvis in a blog post this week & played him tonight just to remind everyone how brilliant his stuff is!
Bang the Skillet favourite Life Is Good always goes down a storm on my show. They are touring the UK later this year & are looking for gigs to fill the schedule - if you know anyone who wants a brilliant ska band to play their venue, please point them in the direction of http://www.bangtheskillet.nl/ Plus, if you fancy helping a great ska band get their album out there, visit: http://www.sponsume.com/project/bang-skillet-mad-about-ska
Last, but perhaps most importantly, I got the opportunity to play my first track off the Specialized charity album: Urang Matang's brilliant interpretation of The Specials' Why. Please get behind this project with your tweets, posts & most importantly your wallets! It's going to be an awesome album & is for a very, very worthy cause. Full details at: http://www.specializedcharityalbum.co.uk/ - the line up is stellar & the clips & tunes I've heard so far have been absolutely brilliant.
Right, enough waffle; here's the playlist:
- Bombskare - Panic Button (live)
- Derrick Morgan - Forward March
- The Scrucialists - Forward Riddim
- The Skamonics - Tainted Love
- Second Time Lucky - Drink, Sleep, Repeat
- Drewvis - Therapy
- Dave & Ansel Collins - Double Barrel
- Nicky Thomas - BBC
- Freddie Notes & the Rudies - Rudexious
- ChainSka Brassica - All Day Long
- Too Spicy - Wasted Brains
- Popes of Chillitown - Dalking Man
- Madness - Drip Fed Fred
- The Beat - Whine & Grine / Stand Down Margaret
- The Specials - Pearl's Cafe
- Urang Matang - Why?
- BANG The Skillet - Life Is Good
- The Aggrolites - Life Is Good
- Easy Star All-Stars - Great Dub In The Sky
- Prince Jammy - Shaolin Temple
- The Soulsteppers - Death Comes
- The Moon Invaders - Don't Touch The Dog
- The Bullets - Explosion
- The Simmertones - Over The River
- Chris Murray - All-Nite Dinah
- The Skints - Bright Girl
- ARTS - Poker Face
- The Upsetters - Kaya Skank
- Dave Barker & the Upsetters - Do Your Thing
- The Skatalites - Nimrod
- Ernest Ranglin - Liquidation
- Prince Buster - Hard Man Fe Dead
- Toots & the Maytals - Louie Louie
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