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Tag: Coventry

STOP YOUR MESSIN’ AROUND – Neville And Christine Sugary Staple On 40 Years Of 2Tone, Knife Crime and The Specials’ New Album

April 1, 2019

For those old enough to remember, culturally and politically 1979 was shaping up to be a pretty grim and demoralising year. In February Sid Vicious…

REBEL ROUSERS – Neville and Christine Sugary Staple Team Up With Specials’ Guitarist Roddy Byers On New Rude Rebels Release

September 11, 2018

Neville and Christine Sugary Staple have reunited with Specials‘ guitarist Roddy Byers, aka Roddy Radiation, for a new single and album. The single’s release was…

Coventry Steps Back To The 80s With Huge Concert At Ricoh Arena

October 17, 2017

Over 8000 people packed out the Ricoh Arena in Coventry on Saturday night to take a step back to the 80s and relive a time when MTV was new, and actually showed music videos.

THE HEART OF THE RE-UNION – The Primitives On Getting Back Together, 1980s Nostalgia And What It’s Like to Have Morrissey Wearing Your T-Shirts

July 31, 2016

Blending ‘sixties bubblegum pop with punk guitars and indie attitude, the Primitives Crash-ed their way into the charts and many a schoolkids’s hearts in the mid-1980s.

Essential Advent Calendar: Stylusboy – ‘Christmas Light’

December 3, 2015

It’s the third of December and so we open our third door and find the ‘Christmas Light’ EP, by Stylusboy!

Photo Credit Yad Jaura

EP Talk ‘Subculture’ And More With The Selecter’s Pauline Black

August 25, 2015

Ska icon Pauline Black talks to Juliet about her new album and Grammy hopes in our exclusive interview.

        

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