Had a meeting with Western Park museum to let them know what my show will be about, and I can tell you it’s going to be megga!!! Can’t paint to start painting. More details over the coming months but I know you are going to love it. Show will launch in November

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Late night #twotonetuesday Barbican Music Library
Doors 9.30am til 7.30pm
Rhoda Dakar will be there 6pm to meet & greet & sign your merch (and copies of her album - cash only)
Barbican Centre
Music Library - 2nd floor
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS
fromthecaribbean2coventry.co.uk/the-barbican/

Freedom Sounds Festival 2024

...just 10 days away

tickets - freedomsoundsfestival.de

#rocksteady #ska #reggae #dub #soul #funk #freedomsounds #festival #diversity #love #unity

All you punksters out there might like to know that Chelsea season-ticket holder Paul Cook & his band The Professionals are playing The 100 Club this coming Sunday
There are few top names on the guest list 😉
Tix available as per the poster or from me on the door on the night

Coventry Music Museum The Cov Music Museum a must see place for 2 - Tone , Ska & music fans alike with its dedicated team of curators Pete Chambers BEM The Specials The Selecter(2-Tone) Pauline Black OBE DL The English Beat Horace Panter Rhoda Dakar Sugary Staple From THE SPECIALS Neville Staple wendy The 2-Tone Village, Coventry

Rhoda Dakar Just finished watching The Specials documentary and so pleased to see both you and Pauline feature so prominently. Congrats!

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Wow! I have no recollection of this at all! For those doing the maths, I wasn’t actually a teen until 1972. Interesting snapshot of pop culture history. Who made the programme?

You used to hear this a lot from people. But what if at 30 you still don't have access to capital? What if at 30 you're sick of paying more but getting less? What if at 30 you are materially worse off than your parents? What if at 30 you can only live six months at a time?

The Bodysnatchers

“What’s This”
Live on Tyne Tees TV show “Alright Now” 1980
#TwoToneTuesday
Rhoda Dakar PunkAndNewWave Inflammable Material 🔥 🔥 🔥 From the Caribbean 2 Coventry Fat Old Anarchist

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Sorry, Mr Sunak, that you and your government consider a section of the British public to be a 'nuisance' which needs to be dealt with.

Fortunately, there is a way in which the public can deal with nuisance governments, and will do so by the end of 2024.

theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

I’m used to religious holidays being commercialised, but this took me by surprise! It’s the US, obvs. 😳 Happy Easter!
Via Jane Wiedlin

Congrats Pete, it was a lovely place! X

This is so true of 2 Tone in general. THE defining Youth Culture movement of my generation, and life-changing for me. Still think about it daily. And it was basically all over by the end of summer '81. (Madness weren't ska any more, and other bands' charting days were numbered.)

Congratulations to you both! Lovely, lovely people!! Xxx 🍾💖🥳

....we were introduced onstage as ' the hottest thing since the pennsylvania meltdown', by my school friend Jan Ozimkowski, who went on to be become a top brass senior fireman…says Dave.
dave wakeling

Tomorrow is the last day my gallery on Sharrow Vale Road will be open. I am holding a BIG relocation sale to celebrate from 9am. Hope you can make it one last time x

Thank you!