The Specials / Live at the Bataclan, Paris, France 30/11/2014

Born in 1977 in England, The Specials mix for decades the dancing aspect of ska to punk aggressiveness. Highly politically engaged, the British formation has risen several times at the top of the UK charts with hits like "Too Much Too Young" and "Ghost Town."

After dissolution due to the departure of three of its members at the end of the 80s, The Specials are reformed in 2009. Always the Devil in the Flesh, the musicians are preparing to blow a wind of rebellion on the Bataclan!

Filmed on 30/11/2014 (87 minutes)



Setlist:

Ghost Town
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
Do Nothing
International Jet Set
Stereotype
Man at C&A
Rat Race
Hey Little Rich Girl
Blank Expression
It's Up to You
Why?
Doesn't Make It Alright
Nite Klub
(Dawning of a) New Era
Do the Dog
Gangsters
Monkey Man
Concrete Jungle
A Message to You, Rudy
Little Bitch
Too Much Too Young

Encore:

Guns of Navarone
Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)
You're Wondering Now

Video:

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/specials-au-bataclan

Photos:

http://soundofbrit.fr/2014/12/01/photos-the-specials-bataclan-paris-30-novembre-2014/

Terry Hall / Sorrow "Live" (Fred Perry) 08/01/14

Terry Hall and Friends - Sorrow from Fred Perry on Vimeo.

Terry Hall / Sunday Service (BBC Radio 6 Music) 02/02/14

Specials frontman Terry Hall takes over the Sunday afternoon slot for the whole of February armed with a box of records carefully selected from his personal collection.

As frontman of The Specials Terry Hall represented a kind of detached, dry kind of cool totally at odds with other pop stars of the time.

After leaving the band at the height of their fame in 1981 Terry went on to from Fun Boy Three and The Colourfield - before embarking on a multifarious career that's seen him work with Damon Albarn, Lily Allen, Sinead O'Connor and leap from style to style in way few artists do (or can). All while maintaining this deadpan sense of humour and his own unique vocal style.



Terry Hall - The Carrier Bag Collection (02/02/14)

The Fall - New Big Prinz
Dave & Ansel Collins - Double Barrel
Janet Kay - Silly Games
Laura Mvula - Green Garden
Sly & The Family Stone - If You Want Me To Stay
Sly & Robbie - Boops (Here To Go)
Talking Heads - The Good Thing
Aztec Camera - We Could Send Letters
Donnie Elbert - Where Did Our Love Go?
Stevie Wonder - Living For The City
David Bowie - Golden Years
Junior Murvin - Police And Thieves
The Beach Boys - Heroes And Villains
The High Llamas - Nomads
Toots & The Maytals - 54 46 That's My Number
XTC - Making Plans For Nigel
Marc Ribot - No Me Llores Mas
Tom Waits - Telephone Call From Istanbul
The Statler - Brothers Flowers On The Wall
Bob & Marcia - Young Gifted & Black
Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?
Salad Drink - The Elixir
Jonathan Richman and Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae
Steel Pulse - Ku Klux Klan
Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy
Chris Montez - Sunny
Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking

Terry Hall - The Carrier Bag Collection (09/02/14)

Big Audio Dynamite - E=Mc2
Big Youth - Hit The Road Jack
Massive Attack - Karmacoma
David Byrne and St. Vincent - Who
Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing
The Doors - Moonlight Drive
EELS - The Look You Give That Guy
Buzzcocks - Noise Annoys
Be Bop Deluxe - Ships In The Night
Ben Folds Five - Philosophy
Andy Williams - Moon River
Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You In The End
The Lightning Seeds - Pure
New Order - Age Of Consent
Paul Williams - So You Want To Be a Boxer
Tricky - Hell Is Round The Corner
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Come Wi Goh Dung Deh
Max Romeo - War Inna Babylon
John Barry - The Persuaders Theme
Yonderboi - Ohne Chanteuse
Cher - Gypsies Tramps & Thieves
Echo & The Bunnymen - A Promise
Doves Here It Comes
Jimi Hendrix - Angel (Acoustic version)
Caetano Veloso - Cucurrucucu Paloma
The Roches - Mr Sellack
Jack Johnson - Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - The Plan
Desmond Dekker - 007 (Shanty Town)

Terry Hall - The Carrier Bag Collection (16/02/14)

The Clash - Clash City Rockers
The Breeders - Cannonball
Suicide - Ghost Rider
Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
Jackson 5 - ABC
Stereolab - French Disco
Susan Cadogan - Hurt So Good
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
David Essex - Lamplight
Willy Mason - Oxygen
Dolly Parton - Jolene
Al Brown - Here I Am Baby
Finley Quaye - Sunday Shining
Max Romeo and The Upsetters - Chase The Devil
Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Hamilton Bohannon - Disco Stomp
Taraf de Haïdouks - A Gypsy Had A House
Patti Smith - Kimberly
Cocteau Twins - Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires
Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven
R. Dean Taylor - There's A Ghost In My House
The High Llamas - Literature Is Fluff
Linda Lewis - Rock A Doodle Doo
Violent Femmes - Country Death Song
David Bowie - Heroes
Carpenters - Goodbye To Love


Terry Hall - The Carrier Bag Collection (23/02/14

Lloyd Cole and Commotions - Perfect Skin
Dawn Penn - You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)
Kraftwerk - Showroom Dummies
The Fall - Hit The North
Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds
Orange Juice - Rip It Up
Richard Hell and Voidoids - Blank Generation
Veruca Salt - Seether
Ian Hunter - Once Bitten Twice Shy
Les Négresses Vertes - Zobi La Mouche
Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling
The Lightning Seeds - Telling Tales
Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billy Joe
Le Volume Courbe - Le Petit Chevalier
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
The Beach Boys - Sail On Sailor
Blondie - Heart Of Glass
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London
The Roches - Nurds
Tom Waits - More Than Rain
Harry J. All Stars - Liquidator
Freda Payne - Band Of Gold
Aztec Camera - Orchid Girl
Ray Stevens - Misty
Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us
Dr. Alimantado - Poison Flour
War - Low Rider
Dave & Ansel Collins - Monkey Spanner
Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is

Listen Again:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03w6mfl#programme-broadcasts

Terry Hall: Interview

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01r574t

For The First Time / Terry Hall (BBC 6 Music)

Matt Everitt speaks to Terry Hall about the musical moments that have shaped his life and career.



As frontman of The Specials, Terry Hall represented a detached, dry kind of cool, totally at odds with other pop stars of the time. After leaving the band at the height of their fame in 1981 Terry went on to form Fun Boy Three and The Colourfield – before embarking on a multifarious career that's seen him work with Damon Albarn, Lily Allen, Sinead O'Connor and leap from style to style in a way few artists can, while maintaining his deadpan sense of humour and own unique vocal style.

Rarely doing interviews, in this show Terry talks about his early musical loves growing up in Coventry, the early days and huge success of The Specials and the infighting and pressures that led him to quit the band. He also talks about his passions for Patti Smith, Easy Listening, working with Albarn as a member of Gorillaz and his experience suffering a breakdown ("I refused to take my duffel coats off for 18 months").

Plus, he discusses his reasons behind getting The Specials back together for their triumphant gigs in 2008 and exclusively reveals his plans to start writing songs again. :)

Sunday 20 October 2013

12.00-1.00pm

BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC

Songs Played

01 The Specials - Rat Race
02 The Specials - International Jet Set
03 Édith Piaf - La Vie En Rose (I liked Grace Jones version)
04 The Move - Fire Brigade (Always liked this one)
05 David Bowie - Kooks (Interesting)
06 Pink Floyd - Echoes (Terry's first Gig)
07 Richard Hell & Voidoids - Blank Generation (The backing vocals remind me of Fun Boy Three)
08 The Specials - Gangsters
09 The Specials - Ghost Town
10 The Specials - Blank Expression
11 The Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)
12 Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun (Why I Like The Colourfield)
13 Terry Hall & Mushtaq - A Gathering Storm
14 The Specials - Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)
15 Jeff Buckley - Grace (Reminds me of Terry's Home album, released the same year (1994)

Listen Again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03f0lvc

Terry Hall / Collaborations (1987-2011)

Terry Hall / Collaborations (1987-2011)



Official Releases

01 Sinead O Connor - Monkey In Winter
02 The Lightning Seeds - Sense
03 The Lightning Seeds - Where Flowers Fade
04 The Lightning Seeds - Lucky You
05 Hiroshi Fujiwara - Getting Over You
06 Salad - Dream A Little Dream Of Me
07 Tricky - Slick 66
08 Tricky - Ghost Town (Live)
09 Nearly God - Poems
10 Nearly God - Bubbles
11 Sinead O Connor - All Kinds Of Everything
12 Silent Poets - Sugar Man
13 Ian Broudie - Happy Ending Lies
14 Archive - Gangsters (Live)
15 Junkie JXL - Never Alone
16 D12 Gorillaz - 9/11
17 Dave Stewart - happy To Be Here
18 Dave Stewart - Sci Fly Album
19 Toots & The Maytals - Never Grow Old
20 Space Monkeys - Lil Dub Chefin
21 Lautrec - Things
22 Dub Pistols - Problem Is
23 Dub Pistols - Rapture
24 Dub Pistols - Gangsters
25 Dub Pistols - Running From My Thoughts
26 Dub Pistols - Peaches
27 Leila - Time To Blow
28 Leila - Why Should I ?
29 Nouvelle Vague - Our Lips Are Sealed
30 Shakespears Sister - Was It Worth It ?
31 Marina Celeste - La Femme Chat
32 Marina Celeste - Beds Are Burning
33 Marina Celeste - Two Loves
34 Marina Celeste - Do You...?

Where These Tracks Can Be Found

Tracks 1 & 11 "Collaborations" 2005
Tracks 2-3 "Sense" 1992
Track 4 "Jollification" 1996
Track 5 "Nothing Much Better To Do" 1994
Track 6 "War Child, Help Album" 1995
Track 7 "Pumpkin" 12" 1995
Track 8 "Rainbow's EP" 1995
Tracks 9-10 "Nearly God 1996
Track 12 "To Come" 2001
Track 13 "Purley Belter" 2000
Track 14 "Archive" 2002
Track 15 "A Broadcast From The Computer Hell Cabin" 2003
Track 16 "Bad Company Soundtrack" 2002
Track 17 "Sci Fly" 1999
Track 19 "True Love" 2004
Track 20 "Laika Come Home" 2002
Track 21 "CD Single" 2004
Track 22 "Six Million To Live" 2005
Tracks 23-26 "Speakers and Tweeters" 2007
Tracks 27-28 "Blood, Looms and Blooms" 2008
Track 29 "Nouvelle Vague 3" 2008
Track 30 "Songs From The Red Room 2009
Tracks 31-34 "The Angel Of Pop" 2011

Terry Hall / The Cover Field

Terry Hall / The Cover Field




THE SPECIALS

SLF - Doesn't make it alright
Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm
Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - Enjoy Yourself

THE FUN BOY THREE

Ella Fitzgerald - T 'aint what you do It’s the Way that...
The Velvelettes - He was really saying something
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Summertime
Ron Goodwin - Murder She Said (Miss Marple's Theme)
The Doors - The End

THE COLOURFIELD

Noel Harrison - windmills of your mind
Bobby Goldsboro - Little things
? & The Mysterians - can't get enough of you baby
The Roche's - Hammond song
Sly & the family stone - Running away
The Monkees - She
The Doors - Take it as it comes
? & The Mysterians - 96 tears
Talking Heads - Memories can't wait
Godfrey - Let's Take A Trip

TERRY BLAIR & ANOUCHKA

Captain & Tennille - love will keep us together
The Coasters - Three cool cats.

VEGAS

Charles Aznavour - She
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

TERRY HALL

The Beach Boys - God only knows
Herb Alpert - This guy's in Love with you
Gerry Rafferty - Stuck in the middle with you
Brian Protheroe - Pinball
David Bowie - Sorrow
Mamma Cass Elliott - Dream a Little Dream of me
Television - See no Evil
Andy Williams - Music to watch girls by
John Lennon - Working class hero
Todd Rundgren - I saw The Light
The Carpenters - Close to you.
Dana - All kinds of everything reminds me of you
Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton - Islands in the stream
Blondie - Rapture
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
The Equals/The Clash - Police on My Back
Johnny Mercer - Moon River
Gonna Make You A Star - David Essex
We Have All the Time In the World (The Specials) - Louis Armstrong

The Specials / Ghost Town E.P.

CHS TT 17

2 Tone Records

1981

Terry Hall / The Best Of 1981 - 1997 (January 2012)

As singer with The Specials, Fun Boy Three, The Colourfield, Terry, Blair & Anouchka and Vegas, as well as a solo performer, Terry Hall has been part of the musical landscape for over 30 years.

He has produced as many types of music as Bowie and collaborated with the great and the good, from Bananarama to Tricky.

This collection demonstrates the breadth of Hall's range and confirms him as one of the mavericks of British pop.





Tracklist

CD 1
1 It Ain’t What You Do It’s The Way That You Do It*
2 Our Lips Are Sealed
3 Really Saying Something *
4 Thinking Of You
5 The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)
6 The Tunnel Of Love
7 The Telephone Always Rings
8 Missing +
9 The Colour Field
10 Summertime (Extended 12” Mix)
11 The More I See (The Less I Believe)
12 The Windmills Of Your Mind
13 Ultra Modern Nursery Rhyme +
14 The Farmyard Connection
15 Running Away
16 Your Love Was Smashing
17 Life In General
18 She
19 Faith, Hope And Charity
20 My Wild Flame (Extended Version)
21 Faint Hearts
CD 2
1 Funrama 2*
2 Best Of Luck Mate
3 Heart Of America
4 Ballad Of A Landlord ^
5 Alone *
6 I Saw The Light ^
7 Can’t Get Enough Of You Baby
8 Going Home
9 Happy Families +
10 Possessed
11 We’re Having All The Fun
12 Castles In The Air
13 The Pressure Of Life (Takes The Weight Off The Body)
14 Music To Watch Girls By ^
15 Things We Do
16 Well Fancy That
17 Things Could Be Beautiful
18 Don’t Believe It
19 Summer of ‘82
20 Cruel Circus
21 Way On Down

Tracks with an * are performed by Fun Boy Three & Bananarama

Tracks with a + are performed by Terry, Blair & Anouchka

Tracks with a # are performed by Vegas

Tracks with a ^ are performed by Terry Hall

Released : 09/01/12

http://www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk/Product.aspx?ProductID=5927

Terry Hall / Specials Relationship 14/10/11

Terry Hall : It's a fragile reunion that is about to break.



UNCOMFORTABLE silences: we were anticipating a few when we planned a hook up with Terry Hall, legendary frontman with The Specials and Fun Boy Three.

On stage and off, Hall has something of an enigmatic reputation. As frontmen go, he's a quiet and solitary animal that skulks in the shadows. “I frustrate our lighting engineers endlessly,” he smiles. “He sets these lights up for me and I never stand in them, but that's part of the fun really.

“I never understood why I had to stand out at the front and be this horrible Bono type character. We're a collective on stage. I've never felt the need to be the show.”

So when we hit our first silence about five minutes in, a flurry of panic sets in. Fortunately, it's far from being an awkward moment; instead we find ourselves lost in collective imagination with Terry as he reflects on the band's fragile reunion.

“I held off for such a long time because I didn't really see any point. I think I was too niggly before and I was too cynical.

“But a number of things happened over a period of maybe six months to a year where we sort of got back together, and that was down to a lot of things, like some of us had had serious illnesses.

“We got in touch again and once we started playing music again together, we realised we still enjoyed that side of our friendship. When we're together for 10 minutes in the dressing room, we really like each other,” he pauses. “Well, some of us do.

“But it's quite a big band, six men, it's a pretty unnatural situation to put yourself in. To live with those people can wear a bit thin. We're not great at socialising together or going to the cinema together, but....”

Then the silence. “I just pictured us all sitting in the cinema together, on the front row.” He raises a wry smile. “That was horrible.”

It's a fragile reunion that is about to break. This latest sold out tour, based on the band's seminal albums Specials and More Specials, will be their last; this three year romp through The Specials' best bits has come to a natural conclusion.

The idea of doing more as The Specials without new material makes Terry wince. And the idea of actually making new material makes him scratch his head in wonder.

“I don't know how we'd do it,” he says. “You can only tour this material so much and I don't want to get bored with it. I don't think we want to schlep around again after this tour.

“I'm still enjoying getting together with everybody and there's a sense of ownership of it and that's really lovely. The people that come to see us seem to feel a real part of it, but nobody wants it to get boring.

“We could write new material, or we could go off and do our own thing again. We're working on a couple of new things, but whether we'll record or not, I don't know...” he pauses.

“It's just nice to be mates again – to rekindle that is enough for now. We're very loose about the future really. We're at that age in life where you're just grateful to wake up in the morning.”

The original reunion, back in 2008, came about to mark the 30th anniversary of their debut album. Three years later, it coincides with the 30th anniversary of when it all famously fell apart in a Top Of The Pops dressing room and Terry quit to form Fun Boy Three – the pop tonic to The Specials' intoxicating socio-political agenda.

Terry also released a number of critically acclaimed solo albums and collaborations. At 52, he's no more keen to become a solo artist again than he is to be the frontman of Fun Boy Three, although he has recently tried to talk his son, 21-year-old Theodore, into performing some European shows with him. “He's like, 'You're a bit old. You're an alright dad but I don't want to be in a group with you'.”

His life-long battle with mental health issues continues; writing songs, and performing with The Specials, have been 'his therapy'. And he's also discovered painting: “My doctors thought it would be a good idea as part of my recovery. For two years I could paint nothing but the Jackson 5; no idea why, just endless paintings.

“Now I want to move on to something else. Maybe the Osmonds. I've been talking to people about an exhibition next year.” He laughs: “I've got thousands of pictures of the Jackson 5 I can show.

“But being on stage is one of the few places where I feel most like myself,” he continues. “The inhibitions go and I don't care what I feel like or look like or sound like – it doesn't matter.

“If I want to walk round on my knees I can do that. I can't really do that in the street,” he laughs. “Well, I can. But you'd get a very different kind of attention.”

It is, though, timely that the the project has run its course again inside three years. This bookend tour has not (as rumours online would have it) been engineered to make way for a Fun Boy Three reunion. Despite offers, Terry says he remains uninterested: “That group was a reaction to this group – to get away,” he says, “We haven't got that fire any more.”

But it was the right time to pull the material back out. Their songs, from Nite Klub and Gangsters to their biggest hits Too Much Too Young and Ghost Town, spoke about a nation in economic and social turmoil: of an unemployed, disenfranchised, disenchanted youth living on the poverty line.

Today, the band are singing those songs again in similarly recessive times. “I had that initial weirdness on our first rehearsal of the material that a percentage of it still applied,” Terry says. “It is horrible that you can still do a song like Ghost Town with conviction – that's not right.

“It would be nice to drop it out of our set because it no longer applied, but if we did that with all our material we'd have about three songs left in our set. This year has been a mirror image of the year we released Ghost Town: there's been a Royal Wedding, disruption, unemployment, rioting.

“We didn't write those songs as a solution to it. It was just a running diary about how we lived. The anger is still there, but it's not as easy to be angry at this age,” he smiles.

“If we were still that angry at this age, we'd all get locked up. We're older and milder, and now we feel we've done what we needed to do, and that was to get each others' phone numbers.

“That's what I wanted anyway.” Another silence. “Whether I change my number or not is a different matter.”

UK Shows:

Tuesday 11-Oct Wolverhampton Civic
Wednesday 12-Oct Wolverhampton Civic
Friday 14-Oct Manchester Apollo
Saturday 15-Oct Manchester Apollo
Sunday 16-Oct Hull Arena
Tuesday 18-Oct Glasgow SECC
Friday 21-Oct Nottingham Arena
Sunday 23-Oct Plymouth Pavilion
Monday 24-Oct Cheltenham Racecourse
Tuesday 25-Oct Brighton Centre
Thursday 27-Oct Bournemouth International Centre
Friday 28-Oct Cardiff Arena
Saturday 29-Oct Coventry Ricoh Arena
Thursday 3-Nov London Alexandra Palace

http://www.citylife.co.uk/news_and_reviews/news/10019941_terry_s_specials_relationship