Date/Time
Date(s) - 12 May 2012
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Location
Tommyhaus
Price 5 Euros and up
The OFFBEAT COUNCIL meets first time and there will be ground-braking, sweaty action. World is getting better. And all are invited to join it.
The TOMMYHAUS, unfortunately a little bit neglected during the last years concerning ska concerts, is back on the international map. And, damn right, there it is due! 2012 this lovely snotty punk-rock venue exists no less than 40 years.
International reason because it will give you the full broadside of Two-Tone Ska from Brighton, Ska´n´Roll from Hamburg, turkish-speaking girlie Ska and Reggae with
pirate style Ska (both from Berlin) to your ears. To whom this category thing isn´t clever enpough should prefer making his own opinion.
Get the early bird ticket for only five bucks!
TOO MANY CROOKS from Brighton/UK beat british two-tone ska with pig organs and everything that goes with it: when ´92 Alan Perry and David Watts met Dave Cook and Marlon Johnson at a Bad Manners gig in Brighton, they were unanimously of the opinion that the ska music needed new impulse. This was the birth of “Too Many Crooks”and soon joined the band as the support of “The Selecter”, “Laurel Aitken”, “Desmond Dekker” and “The Mighty Mighty Bosstones”. Energetic!
THE CROONERS from Hamburg have realized one thing: Ska is important in life and couldn´t be lifted high enough. But it hardly can´t be everything. Even Rock´n´Roll is part of life. But not this gasping, groaning and greasy Rock´n´Roll. Right stuff like the gruffy and grumpy type of Rock´n´Roll…this one with fire in its eyes. Reggae is really necessary, but not this dumb all inclusive vacation muck. No, a Reggae is needed which punches in the stomach and grinses friendly after it. And yes, it must also be Pop. No ringtone shit, nothing heartless, but wily blissfull melodic pop music, played by guys who have no need to worry about other people´s desire and harmony. And who isn´t fed up meanwhile has to get surprised, hell yeah – and that will happen!
About PORT ROYAL everything is told, definitely. Either you love them, or they owe a money, at least a favor, or beer. Or all of it. In any case the guys from Berlin stand for tough stage action and do not care about any ska conventionts, unless they exist. There are no rules these pirates haven´t already broken. Hardly a niche they haven´t already plundered. While this is nothing for purists, but it´s certainly something for any fan of honest, very dancable music.
In no way everything in Berlin is European. SKARABÄUS combines western and eastern elements in their music. Turkish lyrics and melody flow into the jamaican ska sound. With own material and cover versions of from well-known turkish musicians the band performs with willful arrangements in Berlin and elsewhere.
LIVE:
* TOO MANY CROOKS – Two Tone Ska – Brighton
* SKARABÄUS – Turkish Girl Ska Power – Berlin
* PORT ROYAL – Ska & Reggae – Berlin
* THE CROONERS – Ska´n´Roll – Hamburg
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