THE BEAT ARE COMING TO TOWN - THE LANCS ARE ON THE BILL
September 21st, 2010In the words of our tireless music trojan Kevin Winder ‘It’s Official its Happening The Beat will be at Mercury on the 13th of November with The Rudimentals and The Lancaster Band in Support - Viva’
Viva indeed … Back when the 70’s became the 80’s, when tracks such as ‘Mirror In The Bathroom’, ‘Ranking Full Stop’, ‘Stand Down Margaret’ and ‘Hands Off She’s Mine’, drifted down South to Cape Town, the Lancaster Band were emerging from it’s ‘not too sure … er Rocker… er Punk’ - era and were embracing the British sound. These songs were the soundtrack to our lives then and we were swept away by the power of Ska. So here we are three decades later sharing a stage in Cape Town with our mates The Rudimentals and 2Tone originals - The Beat. How awesome could it get!!!
WARM UP FOR THIS ON OCTOBER 2ND …
Don’t forget to join us at The Cape Farmhouse on Saturday 2nd October for a preview!!! We are so stoked to be able to share the gig with The Brothers Streep Band fresh from a break through run at Edinburgh Festival … they will be in top form.
The proximity of this gig to a huge part of our history -’Off the Road’ - has initiated some fantastic interest and support from some regular ‘Off The Roaders’ …. we are so looking forward to meeting them all again and bringing to the stage not only the complete ‘Comic Strip Heroes’ album, but also the spirit of, Rudimentals (the originals), Private File, The Other Band, Fred Smith and The News!!!
It will be a warm up to The Beat gig to remember!!! Check this original flyer, below - found by Tommy Ball and sent to us by Wayne Joubert - thanks guys! See more here.
