The English Beat w/ .38 Specials Education
Price:
$20.00
2/06/10
Dave Wakeling takes the stage time and again, touring across the States, Canada, the UK and beyond. He does it for two reasons: First, he loves to play music, period. Second, his job here on Earth is to bring a message of love, unity and a steady, rhythmic groove of danceable songs with a message to the masses. Fans see him as an icon and to the young bands coming up he’s the elder statesman of ska. His swooning croon has been covered by such rock luminaries as Peter Townshend, Eddie Vedder and Elvis Costello.
He’s repeatedly referred to in the press now as a “legacy artist” and an “icon”:
He learned what those terms actually mean early in 2006 when, much to his surprise, bemusement, and eternal joy, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame contacted him and asked him for his trademark Vox teardrop guitar, to bed displayed in a place of honour alongside the axes of Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain of Nirvana. Truly a wonderful and humbling experience for a working class boy from Brum!
Dave is currently entering a musical renaissance, and fresh off this legacy moment, Dave is planning on going into the studio to lay down two new albums. Dave also continues to tour as The English Beat, as he had done for the last three decades, with an amazing all-star ska backing band playing the hits of The English Beat, General Public, and his new songs. Expect the unexpected and prepare to be blown away by the ever-changing King of Ska!
.38 Specials Education is a Cover Me Badd idea over five years old: to get a band of local ska lovers to cover the Specials’ entire first record front to back. After Cover Me Badd’s Blasphemous Guitars did a Ghost Town/One Stop Beyond medley that brought down the sold-out house at the Belly Up on Halloween we decided to finally get together the players for our Two-Tone extravaganza. The lineup is a killer! We’ve got Jeff (drums) and the entire horn section from Buck-O-Nine, Scott Kennerly (who first formed Buck-O-Nine and co-wrote “My Town”) on bass, regular Belly Up reggae DJ Emmanuel on organ, Eric Daniel from local ska outfit the Lifters and Gangbusters guitarist
Chris Valle. Like all Cover Me Badd acts, it will be full of
surprises but we’re going to stay true and do justice to one of the greatest records ever made!
