The Specials

blacklist songs

from the specials, from the classic from Edwin Ma.

We've got some more classic pirate radio tunes coming up by John Lennon, by Jeff Beck.

Yeah.

As the sirens fade into the distance there.

It is kind of a controversial sound.

That is Ghost Town by The Specials, which was banned during the Gulf War.

And if you read the lyrics, they're quite specifically about venues closing down and

But yeah, I would do that.

Alan saw the specials with the late Terry Hall at the O2 Academy.

Cracking gig, yeah.

I saw Terry Hall.

Like, just letting it happen and, um, you know, bringing some of our, some of our more modern influences into the music as well.

Who, who are your modern influences now? I mean, everybody always says The Specials, you know, all that kinda stuff.

Well-

From, like, a-

Are The Specials modern?

Yeah.

[laughs] I mean-

Right.

We've changed around the format.

Now, to tone records number one, the A-side was The Specials and Gangsters.

The B-side was a track called The Selector by The Selector, who kind of officially weren't even a band right then.

It was kind of Noel Davis, and that was about it.

They have a brand new single out.

It's called Return of the Selector.

Now, those two guys, as well as John Bradbury, before the Selector were even a band, put out the Selector, which is a track which was the B-side to the Specials Gangsters debut single.

Now, I always thought it was two-tone number one and two-tone...

Yeah.

But The Specials, he did quite a lot of their stuff and when, I guess, they didn't know how to play [laughs] to start with or whatnot.

I don't...

But he was telling me stories about this on the back end of, you know, all of that.