If you signed for the Joe Scholes newsletter, you have already received the following note: "Who is the UK’s best Traditional Ska band? You know the answer: Intensified. After 20 years together, the band around singer Paul E. Carter and mastermind Steve Harrington has...
[caption id="attachment_2288" align="alignleft" width="460" caption="The Hotknives at the London International Ska Festival 2011, photo: Oliver Lietz"][/caption] These lads from Brighton have always been an exceptional Ska band. From the early 1980s up to now, what set The Hotknives apart was the sheer quality of their songs....
An interview with Chris Hunt Whenever „the media“ wanted to talk to us, we didn’t decline their offers. Partly because there was not much opportunity to do so. Where we came from, writers interested in Ska bands were a rare species. Either you took your chance...
In many respects I was at the high point of my musical career when the London International Ska Festival took place in December 1988. I was 22 years old, the first album of my band The Braces had just been recorded and would be released...