The Selecter The Selecter have announced a 40th Anniversary US Tour in
2019 with Special Guest and DJ Rhoda Dakar. The Selecter will be
playing an extended, hit-rich set each night with some added live
favourites and surprises. They will also be joined for a few songs by
vocalist Rhoda Dakar who will also play a DJ Set to open the nights.
The Selecter is led by their iconic frontwoman Pauline Black and
co-fronted by original member Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson. Pauline
Black is one of very few women in the 2-Tone scene - she is often
referred to as the Queen of Ska. Not only a crucial figure in the
music community, Black is also a published author, gifted actress and
a celebrated style icon. The anarchic passion that fuelled Selecter
gigs during the original 2-Tone era is still there, except the pair
are more driven than ever. Their confidence is sky-high and they’re
also writing the best songs of their career, which is saying something
given the enduring popularity of hits like “Three Minute Hero,”
“Missing Words,” “Too Much Pressure” and “On My Radio.”
The Selecter continue to release new music, charting new albums in the
UK in the last couple of years, proving that 2-Tone is still as
relevant and important as it was 40 years ago. In October 2017 The
Selecter released studio album Daylight – their most urgent,
politically engaged and purely uplifting record since the days of Too
Much Pressure and Celebrate The Bullet. Rhoda Dakar’s career began
as lead vocalist with all-woman 2-Tone band The Bodysnatchers who
toured with The Selecter. The Bodysnatchers first single was double
A-side "Let's Do Rocksteady" with "Ruder Than You". Rhoda also later
sang and collaborated with The Specials. 2-Tone was a crucial
multi-racial, multi-cultural explosion borne out of Coventry and the
Midlands that remade British pop from 1979 onwards. The main bands who
pioneered the movement were The Selecter, The Beat, The Specials and
Madness. 2019 also sees the 40th anniversary of 2-Tone.
www.theselecter.net www.facebook.com/TheSelecter Plus Special Guest &
DJ Rhoda Dakar
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