{"id":1980,"date":"2012-09-14T15:44:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T15:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2012-09-14T15:44:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T15:44:01","slug":"phoenix-city-all-stars-present-2-tone-gone-ska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1980","title":{"rendered":"phoenix city all-stars present : 2 tone gone ska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/phoenix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"phoenix\" border=\"0\" alt=\"phoenix\" src=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/phoenix_thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">side one : <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">one step beyond, stereotype, tears of a clown, the prince<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">side two : <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">the selector, i can&#8217;t stand up for falling down, ghost town, too too dub<\/font><\/p>\n<p>now i&#8217;m liking this.<\/p>\n<p>basically, the man behind the excellent reggae soul revue gang, <strong>pama international<\/strong>, sean flowerdew, has gathered together a new bunch of folks, and revisited some <u>2 tone<\/u> classics by <strong>the specials<\/strong>, <strong>madness<\/strong>, <strong>the selector<\/strong>, <strong>the beat<\/strong> etc, in an authentic old school 60 ska style.<\/p>\n<p>of course, the <u>2 tone<\/u> catalogue is littered with cover versions, so this is kind of going the other way, and the results are nothing short of wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>there are no sonic surprises, no experiments, just 30 minutes of warm sounding live in the studio ska reversions of songs people of a certain age will already know like the back of their blade 1 shaved head, with special guest appearances by dave barker, a genuine <u>trojan records<\/u> legend.<\/p>\n<p>as i said, i&#8217;m liking this a lot.<\/p>\n<p><u>more detail<\/u> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londoninternationalskafestival.co.uk\/shop\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; side one : one step beyond, stereotype, tears of a clown, the prince side two : the selector, i can&#8217;t stand up for falling down, ghost town, too too dub now i&#8217;m liking this. basically, the man behind the excellent reggae soul revue gang, pama international, sean flowerdew, has gathered together a new bunch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}