I've just fired up ITunes to work this out.
672 bands playing a total of 8,765 songs on 516 albums.
Thats without counting the misfiled stuff, removing duplicates.
Nothing but 2-tone to today, all on the off beat.
My Trojan stuff, and many new...
dear god, I'm away for a few months and this is still going strong?
From here I'd say that the scene is too splintered to ever become a coherent whole again. No bad thing, it gives me lots of variety - At the moment my current listening includes ...
saw you ask me about the ska night in manchester. well its on the last sunday of the month, most months ran by BOMB IBIZA. its held in the retro bar basement, which is on Sackville street in manchester it runs from 4.30 to 11. I'll give you the myspace link to them to find out more. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=23916592
you will also notice they run a thursday club night held at satans hollow in Manchester, which i believe is 2nd Thursday of the month. Me x
'Meanies, Slackers, Aggrolites, Blukilla, Selecter, Specials, Bodysnatchers, Too Many Crooks, Skapontas, Smoke Like A Fish, Rude Boys and many many many more. Not keen on Madness or Lily Allen though.....
I am a...
SKA Enthusiast
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Too old to be a skin or a rudie, I'm just happy collecting the music that makes me want to dance... Higgit!