Ska News

Ooo, ooo, our turn! There are some great potential one-album shows coming up that even the rest of the Rocks Off staff managed to miss.

FOR the Murray family in Bo'ness, 'Our house, in the middle of our street', is now on the website of pop/ska icons Madness! Son Lewis was a Public School presentee on Fair Day, all kitted out with classmates in Madness-style black fedoras, braces and shades, tying in with the primary's theme.

Three or four times a year, when the spirit - or more likely the spirits move me, I dig out an old 45rpm single from the back of the cupboard, take the record out of the sleeve and hold it up to the light.

Recently called "great giants of British music" by BBC late night host Jools Holland, 2 Tone/Second Wave ska invasionists Madness have waited nearly a decade to offer the world new songs.

Sandusky City Schools and Terra Community College, in collaboration with MoronBros Concerts, are having a once in a lifetime experience for area music/band students.

Before she discovered she could write songs, Gwen Stefani was looking forward to a life of marriage, children, and white picket fences.

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.