Don’t forget we are playing Dumplin’s Live Ska tonight.
We expect to be on stage at about 9pm.
Dumplins takes place at the Fiddler’s Elbow, 1 Malden Road, NW5 3HS. The nearest tube is Chalk Farm, or use the 24 bus. Kentish Town West on the Overground is nearby too. Here’s a map.
As it’s the summer we will be playing with special guests on alto sax (Rachel Musson) and guitar (Phil Short) – both are hugely talented musicians. Adding Rachel means that we will have an all female horn section and majority female band – which is the first time we can say that about a Skamonics gig. The band will undoubtedly debate how significant that is.
As this is a ska club we are going to avoid some of the more obvious tunes in our usual set – the two-tone covers that almost every ska band has in their repertoire. So we will go back to our 60s roots and play a good smattering of Skatalites tunes, and feature some of the more modern covers that do not usually get a ska or rock-steady treatment.
This is probably London’s premier ska night, and we are really looking forward to it.
Be there, or be square.