Tone veterans prove their resurgent relevance……….haven’t sounded so energised since their 1979 debut” Mojo

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We are teaming up with The Beat in 2017, hitting the road together for a number of dates around the UK and Ireland. After our show at Shepherds Bush Empire sold out in record time, we have added a show at the iconic Roundhouse in Camden on Friday 6 October 2017. a b c G, Helen (20 March 2012). "Made in solidarity: The Selecter in the 21st century". The F Word . Retrieved 6 December 2016. In 2022, the Selecter toured the UK performing their second studio album Celebrate the Bullet (1981) in its entirety. [16]

Also, she was sexually abused, over a period of months, by an adult neighbour. Telling her parents led to an awful scene (they made her retell her story in front of the neighbour and his pregnant wife). Aged 10, she went into herself. Gigging Northern Ireland – www.giggingni.com " INTERVIEW: The Selecter". Giggingni.com . Retrieved 7 January 2015. Charley Anderson Plays In Cov With Some Select Friends – Coventry City FC – Coventry MAD. Coventrycity-mad.co.uk. Retrieved 24 April 2012. The announcement comes during Coventry’s UK City of Culture 2021 year in which she has played a pivotal role – in the bid and the celebrations. In the last few years The Selecter celebrated their 40th Anniversary and returned to the Official UK Charts in April with a reissue of their debut album Too Much Pressure. From that time, she’s still friends with Rhoda Dakar, from the Bodysnatchers, but her closest friends are from when she was a radiographer. “Because I’m Miss Distrustful, Mistrustful. I don’t seek out people in the business, I don’t know how to hang out at parties and that kind of stuff. I’ve always been useless at that.”

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The first single from the album FRONTLINE is out now and it has just been added to the BBC Radio 6 Music playlist With our co-headline tour starting this FRIDAY in Glasgow we want to give you the heads up on times for both shows this weekend so you can make sure that you do not miss anything! She credits her hometown saying “Coventry is responsible for making me who I am, today, it gave me the opportunity to study, work & ultimately creatively find my voice with the 2-tone movement which has spearheaded the musical conversation about racism and sexism for the past 42 years.”Charley Anderson moved to Sweden during the 1990s where he performed, recorded and released material with the Skalatones. In 2009, Anderson returned to Coventry to play a charity concert at the Central Hall to promote his Ghetto Child project. Joining him on stage were guests from UB40, the Specials, the Selecter along with saxophonist Carlos Garnett. [6] EXCITING TOUR NEWS!! We are heading out to the West Coast of America and Canada later this year with our good friends The Beat feat. Ranking Roger The band were one of the most successful ska bands of the 2 tone era, notching up several top forty singles in the British charts. Having co-released the first 2 tone ska single with the Specials, they were one of the founding acts of the movement. Though highly influential, the original lineup only remained together for a year, and even with replacement players the band only continued until breaking up in 1982.