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The Specials Reform?

I just left him alone but there was a mutual friend of him and Jerry there and when I told him Jerry lived round the corner he was going to call Jerry but we decided otherwise.
I wonder if anyone else talked to Terry though I doubt if anyone really knew he was there. He always struck me as really tall but he's not so i guess no one else knew he was there. I wouldn't have recognised him unless I'd been told he was there.
Tickets were booked through his son, so I can kind of claim Terry Hall was in the Windmill and HE PAID!!!

Well solid!
 
Teaboy said:
Maybe, maybe not.

Bestival always throw in a couple of secret special guests which are usually pretty big names. I seem to recall last year it was Madness and Hot Chip.

I would have thought they would want to shout from the trees if they had secured The Specials but you never know, I wouldent count out the possibility.:)
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Chances are strong that we'll end up reversing our current decision not to go in the end, so let's hope you're right :)

Sir Belchalot, too :cool: :confused:
 
Really weird Dammers quote on 6music news which confuses things even more. It's weirdly edited, but he seems to say people shouldn't get their hopes up about it being the original specials, and doesn't want people to be disappointed. He says something about not being sure about it.

So :confused:

Doesn't appear to be a denial, but he sounds pretty unconvinced too.
 
just stick a cd on. revials are never what they used to be ;)


though i'd beg, steal or borrow a ticket if they do a gig in coventry, full line up :cool:
 
Planet Sound today http://www.teletext.co.uk/entertain...6ba7d91749a774d4f/Dammers+not+so+Special.aspx

teletext said:
Jerry Dammers has admitted he is unsure whether The Specials' reunion will work and admitted the band have yet to all rehearse together at the same time.

Dammers said: "We've had one trial rehearsal, which was no way all seven people in the room at the same time."

He told 6 Music: "Some elements were good, some weren't so good. There's a hell of a lot of work to do." The band haven't played since splitting in 1981.
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I'd love to see them if this happens.

mind you, I could do with erasing the memory of Jerry Dammers DJ-ing at The Big Chill a few years back.

He was *cough* 'deeply experimental'. :D
 
teletext said:
The Specials are definitely to play on a reunion tour this autumn.

The band had reunited for rehearsals, but said they'd only play their first shows since 1981 if they went well.

Terry Hall told Billboard: "We're getting on great, and that's all you can hope for, really." He said the band would play theatre-sized venues rather than arenas, with the setlist all of their debut and half the second album.
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:cool:
 
killer b said:
fair enough, maybe - although i'm not sure if the specials had the same mass appeal madness had.

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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Specials full reunion could fill Wembley arena no probs. if they did reunite and played Brixton size i wouldnt bother trying to get tix cos would sell out in 2 hours and be rammed full of Peaches Geldofs
 
See, the only version I've seen is the one Dammers was touting around about 10 years ago, and I've no idea who else was in that (they were pretty rubbish.)

So, if I go see this version, I can claim to have seen The Specials in their entirety :confused:.

Reunions. Pah. It's not gonna be as good as Live at the Moonlight Club is it?
 
corporate whore said:
See, the only version I've seen is the one Dammers was touting around about 10 years ago, and I've no idea who else was in that (they were pretty rubbish.)

So, if I go see this version, I can claim to have seen The Specials in their entirety :confused:.
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Dammers wasn't in that version of 'em neither. It was Neville Staples fronting it - I saw 'em and thought they were pretty great myself
 
ouchmonkey said:
Dammers wasn't in that version of 'em neither. It was Neville Staples fronting it - I saw 'em and thought they were pretty great myself
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I saw them too and really enjoyed it, which is why I'm not too precious about seeing a Dammers-less Specials. I've only ever seen Dammers DJ, and he was really really boring.
 
ouchmonkey said:
Dammers wasn't in that version of 'em neither. It was Neville Staples fronting it - I saw 'em and thought they were pretty great myself
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I thought they were pretty good then but I still felt like I hadn't really seen the Specials without Terry Hall there.

At Bestival the place erupted and I can't imagine the performance would have been any different with Dammers on keyboard. Absolutely incredible to see my favourite band at last, never thought it would happen. Still buzzing, they did just about all of the first LP.
 
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i was too busy skankin to take anymore pics!!
 
ringo said:
I thought they were pretty good then but I still felt like I hadn't really seen the Specials without Terry Hall there.

At Bestival the place erupted and I can't imagine the performance would have been any different with Dammers on keyboard. Absolutely incredible to see my favourite band at last, never thought it would happen. Still buzzing, they did just about all of the first LP.
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it was fukin crazy how they came on!!

no warning...

just BOOOOOOOOOOOM!!

:cool:
 
the thing is noone knew they were playing...
no introduction
nowt..

they literally just ran on and started...

it was mega..

:cool:

 
No, they were one of the surprise guests. We'd only gone to the main stage to check where it was while waiting for DJ's we had come to see later and would have already left if my girlfriend hadn't wanted to wait and see who it was.

I was chatting to a mate when I heard the announcer say that the next band hadn't played together for 27 years. Then without saying who they were they launched into a song and immediately it dawned on me who they were and we were jumping up and down shouting "it's the fucking Specials""!!!

.
 
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