The English Beat

Neko Case's Church Music Sounds Heavenly

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) April 20, 2009 2:27 pm
Eric Bachmann has released five albums as Crooked Fingers since Archers Of Loaf broke up in 1998, with the most recent being last year's independently released Forfeit/Fortune. I arrived a couple of songs into the group's opening set, where the singer/guitarist was accompanied by vocalist/bassist Miranda Brown and a keyboardist/drummer who's name...
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Neko Case (photo by John Papamarko)
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Ska Triple-Header Thrills Fans And Brings Back Memories

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) September 21, 2006 3:00 pm
It's not often that you can hear music from three different bands over the course of a night and be able to sing along to every song, but that was the case on Monday night at Lee's Palace for a show featuring Dave Wakeling of The English Beat and General Public, Lynval Golding of The Specials and Pauline Black of The Selecter. And I wasn't the...
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The Selecter's Pauline Black

Dave Wakeling Keeps Beat Going Strong

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) April 8, 2009 2:47 pm
The Beat released I Just Can't Stop It, one of the most danceable and socially relevant albums of all time, in 1980. Guitarist and principal singer/songwriter Dave Wakeling is the only original member of the ska group still regularly performing those songs on this side of the Atlantic these days, but he's doing it with all of the enthusiasm of his...
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2 Tone Spectacular At Lee's Palace

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Photographer: 
Steve McLean
Venue: 
Lee's Palace
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
September 18, 2006
2 Tone

2 Tone Spectacular At Lee's Palace

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Photographer: 
Steve McLean
Venue: 
Lee's Palace
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
September 18, 2006
English Beat's Dave Wakeling
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