please. Looking for newer bands as well as the classics, American influence/wave as well.

Thanks

Reel Big Fish, The Mighty Boss Tones, The Skatelites, Fishbone

I’ve just been introduced to The Cat Empire, some nice ska undertones in there

Big D and the kids table, Catch 22 (and subsequent Streetlight Manifesto)

Spunge – the story so far

Ska-P, Skalariak.

Bad Transmission
Capdown
Harijan
Sublime
The Slackers
Voodoo Glow Skulls
The Skints

SKA P………..will be breaking out the corona/estella/Alhambra lager with those fellows on the first song…… 😀

Smerins Anti Social Club website

Would love to get to see them live someday. Their version of Walking in the Air is magic.

on tonight at the Bate Hall in Macclesfield !!

Bad Manners, The Bodysnatchers 😀

Toots and the Maytalls (before they went rocksteady).
Desmond Dekker
The Ethiopians
Alton Ellis

Get on eBay and search out the Trojan Records box sets from the 90s (deleted now after they went bust) with compilations covering everything from ska onwards.

Obvs, if you want more recent (by which I mean 70s and 80s British) ska, then don’t forget

Madness
Bad Manners
International Beat
The Selecter

You remind me. I have tickets for madness at mofest the week before my wedding. Excellent 🙂

Saw Neville Staple at the Grand in Clitheroe the other week, pretty good but not a patch on the full line up at The Apollo, Manchester.

Mad Caddies, King Prawn, 4ft Fingers, Lightyear (I think), Operation Ivy, Catch 22, Common Rider, Capdown (+1) The Specials…

Go for some original stuff – anything by Roland Alphonso, Don Drummond, Justin Hinds, the Skatalites etc – this box set is a good start:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-Ska-4CD-Various/dp/B00004TW5R/ref=sr_1_20?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1432315705&sr=1-20&keywords=ska+box+set
cheers

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The Planet Smashers 🙂
APF