Blog Archive March 2010

Space Music and World Politics

By Jason Toynbee, 29 March 2010

Jerry Dammers brought his new band, Spatial AKA, to Warwick Arts Centre at the beginning of March. For the former leader of The Specials this was something of a home coming. Despite the Olde English name, Warwick Arts Centre is actually located on the edge of post-industrial Coventry in which city Dammers played a leading part in launching Two Tone over twenty years ago. More than just a record label, Two Tone was a multicultural social movement built on anti-racist politics and a thumping hybrid of punk and ska.