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Courtesy of Peter McLennan, here's Jerry doing Ghost Town 2009. I think this is more me.
'Ghost Town' mashed up with Sun Ra's 'Nuclear War'!
By an orchestra!
And apparently he's been doing this stuff for several years. Why didn't I know?
Here's another one, combining an old Coxsone Dodd tune with another Sun Ra piece:
I saw the actual Arkestra twice, and it was beyond special. From what I tell from these clips, I'd gladly queue to see the Spatial Orchestra too.
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If it's skanking you want, Bad Manners are still touring I believe.
They never stopped -- partly because Buster has had some bad luck financially.
I worked for Buster as the world's shittest press officer for a while after he bought the rights to use the Blue Beat label name (but not, sadly, the back catalogue). He's yer classic geezer with a heart of gold. But he lost his house on the label venture in the end ...
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Just to save mucking about, can anyone tell what settings I'll have to change when I drop my XT trial SIM into my iPhone?
Unofficially, of course ...
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A cool new dubstep remix of 'Ghost Town' ...
You can download it here, along with a totally wicked bootleg remix of Don Carlos/The Aggrovators' 'Late Night Blues'.
Pete Darlington, I'm thinking of you ...
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From Wikipedia:
In 2007, Hall teamed up with Golding for the first time in 24 years, to play Specials songs at two music festivals. At Glastonbury Festival they appeared on the Pyramid Stage with Lily Allen to perform "Gangsters". In May 2009 Golding claimed that Allen's reuniting him with Hall played a "massive part" in the groups later reformation.
[4] Later the same day they played on The Park Stage, with Damon Albarn of Blur on piano and with beatboxer Shlomo providing rhythm, to perform "A Message To You, Rudy". At GuilFest, Golding joined the Dub Pistols to again perform "Gangsters". In 2007, Golding had been regularly performing concerts and recording with Pama International, a collective of musicians, who were members of Special Beat.
On 30 March 2008, Terry Hall stated that The Specials would be reforming for tour dates in Autumn 2008, and possibly for some recording.[5] This was officially confirmed on 7 April 2008.[6]
On 6 September 2008, six members of the band performed on the Main Stage at the Bestival as the 'Surprise Act'. As Jerry Dammers did not play at the festival and owns the trademark rights to the name "The Specials", the group was billed as "Very 'Special' Guests".
On 2 December 2008, the band announced 2009 tour dates to celebrate their 30th anniversary. It was announced that founder member Jerry Dammers is not set to join the band on the tour. Terry Hall was quoted as saying "The door remains open to him,".[7] However Jerry Dammers describes the new reunion as a "takeover" and claims he has been forced out of the band.[8]On 10 April 2009, the reactivated band guested on the BBC Two's Later... with Jools Holland. The Specials will be touring with more festivals in Japan and Australia planned in August 2009.
On 4th May 2009, Lynval Golding and John Bradbury expressed their intentions to release further original Specials material at a later date.
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The Dammer-less Specials last month on Later with Jools Holland :
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I have heard about these big concert ticket clusterf**ks (server crashes and instant sellouts) before. What's PAS' best advice in how I can avoid terrible disappointment on this one?
The promoter is Frontier Touring -- it might help to sign up as a member with them. They'll sometimes to a subscriber-only offer before public sales.
Otherwise, the ticketing agency is Ticketmaster and tickets are "on sale soon".
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Debt is bad. Not worse-than-Hitler bad, but it's not a trivial issue that only matters for high-flying/falling financiers.
When I looked at the first graph, I thought "wow, good thing we're starting from a base of close to zero".
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Agreeing with both your paragraphs there, Gio.
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Back when I was a kid, we lived in uninsulated houses, ran up huge deficits, spent big on 'essential' infrastructure projects, and made promises about superannuation that locked in future Governments for decades to come.
And it never hurt me.
Oh, hang on ...
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