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The Specials Reform?

STFC said:
And what a cracking set that was. Certainly the best live album I've ever heard.
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Is very good.

STFC, you know your stuff - did The Specials ever play Ghost Town live? I've got a recording of them doing it on the Trojan Revival CD, but I dunno if it's doctored..
 
Would be great if they did reform. I would definitely do all I could to see them live. They're a couple of era's behind my introduction to live music, so I'd see it as a real privilege if I managed to see them.
 
killer b said:
not that excited if it's going to be stadiums tbh... i could do the specials at somewhere like the brixton academy perhaps, but nowhere much bigger.
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Agree with this ...

I'm excited if Jerry is involved :)

Would probably still go even if he wasn't :o

Lynval and Terry were on stage together at Guilfest last July (Dub Pistols feat. Terry Hall, and Lynval's band, were both on the bill on the Sunday). They did a couple of songs ....

Someone said that was the first time those two had been on stage together for over 20 years ... that makes sense if you think about it, but the length of time shocked me!

I hadn't even gone to see them, Madness and Toots were the reasons I got a day ticket for an otherwise none too good festival.

But twas all :cool: :)
 
ouchmonkey said:
Ok then, so I'll be first to admit I saw Neville Staples' version of the band, must be about 10 years ago now, and they were great. No Hall, No Dammers but most of the other guys and a really good night out.
In much the same way, I guess, that Rankin' Rogers current version of The Beat is great.
A proper reunion would be cool though.
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Agreeing with this too, I've seen both those bands :)

But yeah, proiper Specials reunion = CAN'T WAIT!! :D
 
I am totally pissed off to miss this. The Specials are the only band I have never seen that I would like to. Don't suppose they will be playing Australia. Just crappy mobile phone coverage on You Tube for me. Terry Hall has still got the voice and Dammers has still got the attitude.
 
William of Walworth said:
Lynval and Terry were on stage together at Guilfest last July (Dub Pistols feat. Terry Hall, and Lynval's band, were both on the bill on the Sunday). They did a couple of songs ....

Someone said that was the first time those two had been on stage together for over 20 years ... that makes sense if you think about it, but the length of time shocked me!
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weren't they onstage together with Lily Allen at Glastonbury only days before - to much hoopla in meeja and so on?
 
Pauline Black was on Radio6 a week or so ago doing a Ska programme (with Queens of Noize) and suggested that the reunion might happen - and she said it might work as a 2Tone reunion tour with The Beat and Selector too. Dammers and Black are playing with the Beat at Shepherds Bush shortly.
 
foo said:
i love that album. Our Lips Are Sealed is my fave FB3 song too. then Lunatics.

watching this thread with interest. :)
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FunBoy3 don't get anything like the respect The Specials do, do they?

It's a shame 'cos they were absolutely ace

The More I See..... is me favourite tho'. I think.
 
no they don't actually. why do you think that is mister ouch?

agreed about The More I See :cool:

i wish i'd got their album with me today to save me from effing radio one. the dj is killing my ears...
 
I think it's a really bizarre album - I love it but can't just put it on anytime. It has quite a sinister sound. All those funfair organs and seaside wurlitzer sounds make me picture myself in a rotting Pleasure Beach whenever I listen to it. Feels like the soundtrack to dying Britain.
 
PieEye said:
I think it's a really bizarre album - I love it but can't just put it on anytime. It has quite a sinister sound. All those funfair organs and seaside wurlitzer sounds make me picture myself in a rotting Pleasure Beach whenever I listen to it. Feels like the soundtrack to dying Britain.
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how lovely, have you been drinking?
the highlighted sentiment is one usually wheeled out for 'Ghost Town'
So I expect it's probably very fitting.
 
Yeah but it comes out in other tracks - I don't know the names of any of them unfortunately but there's poverty, some tragic schooltrip to France (which is a hilarious song) and probably other stuff that I could bend to my theory if I could remember it.

Ok. Maybe not in the content.

But instrumentally it makes me think of that pier in Big where Tom Hanks gets shrunk and burnt out Brighton pier and Whitley Bay's Spanish City. And my cold, dead childhood.
 
PieEye said:
Yeah but it comes out in other tracks - I don't know the names of any of them unfortunately but there's poverty, some tragic schooltrip to France (which is a hilarious song) and probably other stuff that I could bend to my theory if I could remember it.

Ok. Maybe not in the content.

But instrumentally it makes me think of that pier in Big where Tom Hanks gets shrunk and burnt out Brighton pier and Whitley Bay's Spanish City. And my cold, dead childhood.
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Now you're making me sad.

poor tiny lil' pieeye :(
 
PieEye said:
I think it's a really bizarre album - I love it but can't just put it on anytime. It has quite a sinister sound. All those funfair organs and seaside wurlitzer sounds make me picture myself in a rotting Pleasure Beach whenever I listen to it. Feels like the soundtrack to dying Britain.
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are you pissed? :D

(like me)
 
grimble said:
Pauline Black ................ suggested that the reunion might happen - and she said it might work as a 2Tone reunion tour with The Beat and Selector too. .
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Do you know how unaccountably excited that makes me :eek:?

I so hope it happens!!!!:cool::cool::cool:
 
foo said:
are you pissed? :D

(like me)
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And I thought everyone would go "yeah!! I always wondered what it made me feel like and it's like that! You're so astute pieface."

You wankers. It makes me a bit sad, okay?! :mad: It has dead fairground feelings in it. Dead ones!! DEADDEADDEADDEADDEAD.

*throws ipod out window*
 
PieEye said:
And I thought everyone would go "yeah!! I always wondered what it made me feel like and it's like that! You're so astute pieface."

You wankers. It makes me a bit sad, okay?! :mad: It has dead fairground feelings in it. Dead ones!! DEADDEADDEADDEADDEAD.
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No, i know exactly what you mean. There's an incredible sadness to all their stuff I think, and a gallow's humour..
 
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