By skamonic
We enjoyed ourselves at our gig at Brixton’s Ritzy last night. And we did debut a Jessie J song, doing Price Tag somewhere in a cross between ska and reggae, with our horn section sight reading the arrangement.
This is what we played:
| Chinatown |
| Guns Of Navarone |
| Latin Goes Ska |
| Mood For Love |
| You’re Wondering Now |
| Eastern Standard Time |
| Alley Cat Ska |
| Man In The Street |
| Can’t Get You Out of My Head |
| Enola Gay |
| Price Tag |
| Second Set |
| James Bond |
| Dr Who |
| Skaravan |
| Tiptoe |
| 99 Red Balloons |
| Tainted Love |
| Rudy A Message To You |
| My Boy Lollipop |
| Monkey Man |
| Last Song |
| Night Boat To Cairo |
| Encore |
| Gangsters |
We didn’t take any pictures as it was all a bit of a rush, but we did record some of the second set (before our batteries ran out), so there may be another entry in our dodgy live recording series.
That however won’t be the fault of the Ritzy’s sound system as we had some of the best live sound we’ve ever had, thanks to Roger their sound engineer. (hope we’ve remembered the name right!)
By skamonic
And we may well try out a ska’d up Jessie J track.
Here are the details.
By skamonic
And we may well try out a ska’d up Jessie J track.
Here are the details.
By skamonic
In this extraordinary clip Bob Hope shows us how not to dance the ska with a band that doesn’t quite get the rhythm. (They think it’s latin.)
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By skamonic
Here’s a fab 60s documentary about how to dance the ska. We will be testing you at our next gig.
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By skamonic
Don’t forget we are playing on Sunday, February 12th, Upstairs at the Ritzy, in Brixton.
Here’s a link to the Ritzy website.
And, of course, there’s a Facebook event here.
By skamonic
The headline says it all.
We have a new gig upstairs at the Ritzy on Sunday February 12th.
Here’s a link to the Facebook event, so you can invite your friends.
By skamonic
We’re very proud that our singer, Veronica, is part of this project celebrating the work that public service workers do. There’s a campaign to get this in the charts this week and you can find out more about it, and where to buy it here.
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By skamonic
We’re in the middle of switching the Skamonics site into wordpress.
It may look odd and behave weirdly until we’ve finished!
Please bear with us.
update; So far it seems to be going ok. The main problem is that lots of the photos have disappeared. We should be able to fix that.
second update; Still going ok. Most photos are missing from the news/blog posts. But lots of pictures are now available under the pictures tab.
By skamonic
We have a gig at the Round Midnight jazz and blues bar on November 25th. It’s very near the Angel tube. We’ll be playing two sets.
