Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
outside Beaconsfield last night ...
The pub was playing bizarre sounding music (couldn't figure out if it was reggae or Madness) and lots of wierdly dressed (white) people in tea-shirts, braces, boots and short haircuts were standing around. They looked like english fundamentalists. Maybe skin heads? I saw some union tattoos and apparel.
Growing up in Scotland, I didn't see people like that! It was an odd site.
Was this some anti-eid thing nationalist shit stirring or just a "fundamentalist night" (a bit like a gay S & M night given the way some of them were dressed)
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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You have said enough to make me wish I'd seen it myself. Too late for Eurovision I guess.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh D on
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It was indeed a ska night.
My wife walked past and said there were some great sounds emanating from within and plenty of ageing SHARP skins around.
Sounds great.
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Permalink Reply by Karin on
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You must have led a sheltered life in Scotland then. Plenty of ska nights in Glasgow and Edinburgh. One in Whistle Binkies in Edinburgh was legendary. Madness and The Specials tribute bands till 2 in the morning. Oh for life BC (before children)...
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Permalink Reply by Anette on
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You can download the new Madness track "death of a rude boy" for free here and see for yourself!
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Permalink Reply by Ruth on
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Never mind Madness, what you need is The Specials, the great band from my home town of Coventry and there were others. Ska came into the country through W.Indian immigrants and in Cov, the youth of my older siblings generation soon came to love this music and there used to be loads of clubs playing ska. I heard it a lot at home when siblings bought the records.
Anyone remember 'Al Capone guns dont argue'?
And later there was a fusion when the white youth joined in. There was a fab scene going on up there.
I didnt know they held such nights at the Becky!
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Yup, I was at Warwick University in the late seventies/early eighties and Two Tone was rocking it. We were spoilt for choice with bands performing on campus and in nearby Coventry.
Thinking of The Specials, I remember finding myself stuck in the middle of Brixton in my old Beetle as cars burned (and spectators watched) during the Brixton riot - and playing on the radio? "Ghost Town" - very poignant at the time.
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