Ska News

Music reporter Tad Dickens enjoys pickin' and grinnin' and drummin', and he likes to write about music, too.

He is frozen in time, locked in an endless loop wherein the same images are on memory replay.

While high school baseball players from 14 states and Canada are in Wheeling looking for a big break, local business owners are getting big bucks in their cash registers.

Robert DeNiro as Al Capone in "The Untouchables" The Chicago-based gangster was indeed brought down by U.S. Treasury Agent Eliot Ness, who successfully brought in the notorious bootlegger on charges of income tax evasion.

Fans acclaimed British bands Madness and Blur the stars of this year's Glastonbury music festival, observers say.

A HOST of legendary acts revved up a lively Glastonbury crowd on the final afternoon of the festival.

Despite a somewhat low turnout, what matters most in jazz is still the music. From this standpoint, it was the music of the Fabulous Five's Ska/Reggae Revival that brought a swinging climax to the week-long Jamaica Ocho Rios International Jazz Festival on Sunday.

One half of former busking duo, the Dualers, has said he would cancel his upcoming gig at the IndigO2 Arena if it would bring back the king of pop.

The skies should be clear by the time headliners Lily Allen and Neil Young take to the Glastonbury stage on Friday - and festival crime is down too, it was revealed.

Ahh, ska : that offbeat-obsessed, R'n'B/calypso collision from 1950s Jamaica that became a soundtrack for Britain's mods in the '60s; enjoyed a revival in that country in the late '70s ; and then reappeared in a lo-cal SoCal incarnation in the 1990s .

Their music is about the community experience of living in North London but Madness are the perfect band for this year's Glastonbury.

THEIR mates The Specials may have reunited among a blaze of hype, but The Beat are just as good a live proposition when it comes to reliving the Two Tone years.

Carol Grimley opened my eyes to support a belief that just because it's in the Bible I can't say it's wrong,. The same book that condemns same-sex relationships also says a man is unclean if he has a flat nose .

A gig in Margate featuring The Specials singer Neville Staple has been cancelled amid reports customs checks in Jamaica forced him to miss a flight to the UK.

"What is interesting in all of this is that I never realised it until I was in my 70s.

A PAIR of little-known busking brothers are standing up to MICHAEL JACKSON in his bid for O2 domination.

Influential British band The Beat are heading to St Helens this weekend with their infectious brand of ska music.

Ska bands are the only groups of musicians that feel it necessary to incorporate their genre in their name.

Skaville UK, Los Albertos and Tom Middleton are the latest acts confirmed for GuilFest 2009.

London, Just the right timing for Skatonics More reviews by David Smyth Worth the bid: Skatonics In this esteemed organ we don't often review covers bands in pubs but seven-strong Kent 2Tone group The Skatonics were good enough to bid a sizeable sum of money in the Evening Standard's latest charity auction.