The Story of Two Tone
August 18th, 2008 by Russell DaviesI wish The Specials had stayed with their previous name - The Coventry Automatics, that would really have solidified the West Midlandsness of the Two Tone time. This is a couple of pretty straight-forward documentaries about Two Tone, straight-forward but good. Some archive stuff, some ancient live performances, some reminiscence, good anecdotes. I liked the fact that a French hotel owner expected The Specials to pay for damage done by The Dammed the previous week, because both bands looked like punks. Style-tribe accountability; that's what we want to see. MP3 for Part One here. Part Two here.
UPDATE: Hopefully the files work properly now.
August 18th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Ace audio content. Another day on the internet enjoying stuff while doing the ironing thousands of miles away from the centre of all this. I was too young to grasp what the undercurrents were of two tone and ska but it all comes together pretty much here. Anyway thanks.
August 18th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
These files wouldn’t play for me … :-(
August 18th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Sorry Neil, not sure what that problem might be. It seems to work here. Is it not working in the player above?
August 19th, 2008 at 11:56 am
I really would like to get this, but it seems it’s not going through Itunes, might just have to get it direct.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Broken on iTunes subscription plus iTunes won’t play the files when downloaded direct from this website. ID3 Editor won’t open them either. Audacity and Quicktime will. I had to open it in Audacity and export it again as an MP3 to make it work in iTunes. Not ideal.
October 18th, 2008 at 6:14 am
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