Once and for all. I spoke to him for this article a few days ago and he is as disconcerted by the current crisis as all of us. And an activist. However, Dammers issued a statement in December denying this, claiming that The Specials had driven him out of the planned reunion. Affiliation PRS Comments Keyboardist. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. Brads drumming was the powerhouse behind the Specials, and it was seen as a key part to the 2 Tone sound. Terrys voice was the perfect instrument for the true and necessary songs on 'The Specials.' View the profiles of people named Jerry Dammers. Apr 07 2010. Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Orchestra. The music video, directed by Barney Bubbles, consists of bass player Panter driving the band around London in a 1961 Vauxhall Cresta, intercut with views of streets and buildings filmed from the moving vehicle, and ends with a shot of the band standing on the banks of the River Thames at low tide. "It's a fantastic honour and it's amazing that it's remembered in South Africa. In the end I spent most of the day there, doing emails, making more video calls and mostly cancelling things. The riots themselves felt contemporary and weirdly particular. C'est le genre de miracles que sont capables de raliser les Gorillaz. Jerry Dammers: How The 'Devil's Chord' Split The Specials In an exclusive MOJO interview, the architect of 2 Tone reveals how violence at the Ghost Town sessions finished off the group. RIP https://t.co/05ULhUjqS9, Billy Bragg (@billybragg) December 29, 2015. In some respects 1981 was defined by the riots as much as by the music they inadvertently inspired. was sampled in. The riots were more than a collection of urban disturbances, they were a media flashpoint that drew international attention to the huge rift in ideologies between the left and the right in the country, as well as the gap between perception and reality in terms of how the government were coping with the economy. As news of the attack spread, so hostilities began and the police lost control of the area for two days, during which time dozens of fires were started and shops looted, photojournalist David Hodge died a few days later, after a gang of looters he was trying to photograph attacked and beat him. In Glasgow, there were these little old ladies on the streets selling all their household goods, their cups and saucers. The late summer of 1981 was a wake-up call for so many people I knew, as we had all finished college and were experiencing the inevitability of life on the dole, looking for work while juggling the day-to-day existence of a life without structure or a support network. Dammers record was an apocalyptic portrait of inner-city oppression set to a loping beat offset by an unsettling and vaguely Middle Eastern motif: Government leaving the youth on the shelf No job to be found in this country The single sounded like the fairground ride from hell, a snake charmer of a song, complete with strident brass, madhouse wailing and dub-style breaks. It's hard to express how sad I feel about the death of Rico Rodriguez yesterday. Jerry Dammers is a British musician who is a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry, England, based ska revival band The Specials, The Special A.K.A. Even though the polices stop and search powers were about to be curtailed by a government who could see that they werent working, many in the force had become almost institutionalised, especially in their attitudes towards black youth. Inspired by punk, they had their own grudges to articulate and they were doing it through the medium of ska. There is a suggestion that his real name was Gerald Danki but this seems unsubstantiated. Mark Beaumont praised the song and its "brooding evocation of Thatchers wasteland Britain". At the time, as far as music was concerned, there was nothing quite so au courant as nostalgia. It was clear that something was very, very wrong."[4]. Hes fucking missing out. Jerry David Hounsell Dammers was born in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, India in May 1955. For a short while, I felt as though I could have been the last person in the capital. The man who wrote it wasnt there. In an interview in 2011, Dammers explained how witnessing this event inspired his composition: The overall sense I wanted to convey was impending doom. The buyer recently posted a note on The Specials community page looking for some further proof on the authenticity of the instrument he now owns. Jerry Dammers has come out swinging with scathing allegations that the Specials reunion is "a takeover, rather than a proper reunion," claiming he's been kicked out of the . He was an integral part of the Specials re-forming in 2008, and [he] toured with them extensively up to the present day. I think he hid that a bit in his statement. Whatcha Talking 'Bout by Musical Youth (1983) Fine Style by Dr. Echo and DJ Reverend (1994) was covered in. The four main riots occurred in Brixton in London, Handsworth in Birmingham, Chapeltown in Leeds and Toxteth in Liverpool, although there were disturbances in at least 20 other towns and cities, including Derby, Bristol and, almost unbelievably, High Wycombe. Originally, the lead part was done on Jerry's guide organ before the flute was dropped in on the brass track. The first thing I felt was guilt, being outside when I probably should have been indoors, but as I was completely alone this was a pretty futile emotion. The video's locations include driving through the Rotherhithe Tunnel and around semi-derelict areas of the East End as well as in Lothbury and Throgmorton Street in the financial district of the City of London in the early hours of daylight on Sunday morning, where the streets were deserted as it was the weekend. Living in London you certainly got the feeling you were somehow living under siege. We wanted to play 2,000 to 3,000-sized venues. Club owners, club runners, DJs, bands, doormen, barmen, waitresses, bouncers and obviously the drug dealers. George Clinton, Funkadelic, Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Orchestra, Os Mutantes, Devendra Banhart, Bassekou Kouyate, Ngoni Ba, The Phenomenal Hand Clap Band, Brother Ali, Troy Ellis And The Longshots . Terry Hall reacts to main songwriter's statement. Evoking themes of urban decay, deindustrialisation, unemployment and violence in inner cities, the song is remembered for being a hit at the same time as riots were occurring in British cities. Racial tension was high, as the Afro-Caribbean community felt victimised. Its only the most extreme people who appear to still be out there. Jerry Dammers is born Jeremy David Hounsell Dammers on 22 May 1955 in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, South India. Walk into a Brixton pub and you felt eyes upon you. Jerry Dammers is a singer and pioneer songwriter of the Coventry, England based ska revival band The Specials or The Spatial AKA Orchestra. 5th September 2015. Thank you very much for buying this selection of represses from some of the original seven inch singles released on the 2 Tone label between 1979 and 1984. They thought Groce was hiding in his mothers home, raided it and accidentally shot Mrs Groce, paralysing her from the waist down. My thoughts are with all his family.. Who is Jerry Danvers? 2018 Aug 31 Sep 02 2018. Although the exact cause remains unclear, in early April, a riot erupted, involving nearly 2,000 people. Jerry Dammers had approached him when he was singing in a punk band called Squad. Operation Ivy tribute LP on the way; Catbites cover of Healthy Body streaming now, Type O Negative and Crowbar members form new band Eye Am, Elvis Costello played 10 show at Gramercy Theatre (setlists & video for whole residency), Elvis Costello wrapped his NYC residency with The Imposters (pics, setlist, video), The National share New Order T-Shirt from new LP, selling an actual New Order t-shirt, When We Were Young 2023 adds second day with same lineup. It was unbelievable. Its strange times.. Hearing of Brads death has been a great shock to me and it is a very sad day indeed, said Dammers in a statement. Winston Silcott, Engin Raghip and Mark Braithwaite were convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, although all three were cleared by the court of appeal in 1991 after it emerged evidence had been tampered with (Silcott remained in prison for the separate murder of another man, Tony Smith, finally being released in 2003). Recently, someone asked what Terry Hall was like. [12][13] Following further conversations with Dammers, Collins travelled up from his home in London to meet the Specials at their rehearsal studio and agreed to produce their new single. That he didnt turn into John Barry was a disappointment to me, but probably not to him. However, it was to come sooner than anyone thought, as Tesco bought a site on Acre Lane the day after the 1985 riots. The record companies were happy to leave two-tones problems behind.. The looters concentrated on the electrical shops, on the ghetto blasters, television sets and radios. Member of The Specials Buy. I was aware that things were deteriorating. [13], The three songs for the single were recorded over ten days in April 1981 in two separate sessions at Woodbine Street: seven days from 3 to 9 April and then a further three days from 15 to 17 April. That honesty is heard in so many of his songs in joy and sorrow. The mixed racial make-up of The Specials - and most of the other bands on the 2 Tone label - was a deliberate and provocative . Jerry Dammers is a British musician who is a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry, England, based ska revival band The Specials, The Special A.K.A. I dont think he likes the idea of touring, to be honest. I can remember walking out of a rehearsal in total despair because Neville would not try the ideas. It was easier for her to stand back, aghast. Jerry Dammers will be playing a DJ set from his unrivalled collection of library music records,later in the night will be showcasing a new composition recorded by Jerry accompanying the paintings of Turner Prize-nominated Coventry artist George Shaw. The Specials & 2 Tone Records founder Jerry Dammers, who didn't take part in band's reunion, wrote, "Terry's death is very shocking, horrible and tragic news," continuing, "Terry was so young. Police aggression made everyone paranoid, and made people who had previously lived quite happily side by side turn against each other because it seemed like the safest thing to do. Jerry Dammers has hit out at the Specials reunion, claiming he's been driven out of the band. Ghost Town, though, felt properly revolutionary, the kind of record that no one had the right to expect anymore. First we lose Lemmy, now news that Brad from the Specials has passed away. Their records defined a slice of a generation who werent sure they wanted to be defined in the first place. By the end of the 1980s, those pockets of gentrification that had started to pop up around Central London would become so oversubscribed that those on the bottom rungs were pushed farther and farther out, so those previously out-of-bound areas east of the city villages that promised the sort of luxurious loft-living the young bankers in Docklands had been promised a decade before. Bristol Beacon. Tributes from friends, fellow musicians and famous fans have been pouring in via social media. Founder of 2 Tone Records. And it wasnt quiet, so much as mute. Equally, Thatcher dismissed the idea that racism, heavy-handed police tactics and unemployment were behind the Brixton disturbances even though police brutality and continual harassment of young black men has been one of the prime motivators behind the riots saying Nothing, but nothing, justifies what happened What aggravated the riots into a virtual saturnalia was the impression gained by the rioters that they could enjoy a fiesta of crime, looting and rioting in the guise of social protest. To escape crime and to buy bigger houses and to get their children into better schools, they fled to suburbia, specifically to the areas on the outskirts of South East London. I saw it develop from a boom town, my family doing very well, through to the collapse of the industry and the bottom falling out of family life. Discover Jerry Dammers's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. And no, I couldn't come up with an answer. 20th February 2009. Founding Specials member Jerry Dammers has hit out at his bandmates' reunion next year. Urban deprivation for us was a backdrop to a new world, one in which we knew we were going to have to fend for ourselves. News of the drummer's death was announced earlier today. He was highly intelligent, had a very mischievous sense of humour which could be very funny, and he played the drums with an incredible amount of energy which was a very important part of the Specials sound and live shows. House Of Common Festival Madness, Jimmy Cliff, Ziggy Marley, David Rodigan, The Kingdom Choir. Jerry Dammers attended King Henry VIII School, Coventry. But he wrote and produced an incredibly strong song and video in the last days that Nelson Mandela was still in captivity. I was thinking about Ghost Town the other day as I walked home, lost in reverie, but oh-so-aware of everything around me. [20], The summer of 1981 saw riots in over 35 locations around the UK. He also founded 2 Tone Records. I was blown to pieces, He was open about everything: inside a new documentary Willie Nelson & Family. We had some really great times together and it is truly tragic that he has died so young. 197952 . The carpet shop always seemed to suffer, not that any of the stock was ever taken. No noise. Simple Minds. Please enjoy your records. Begging you, begging you please. Musician and arranger Delia Derbyshire, who died in 2001 and musician Ray King were also honoured with plaques. Apart from penning the song, Dammers also stopped seeing this "friend" - an approach echoed in the song's chorus: "If you have a racist friend/ Now is the time, now is the time/ For your friendship to end." But for Dammers, who confesses he is "not a confrontational person", the song was substitute for a . Their first, a live recording of Too Much Too Young, was essentially The Sex Pistols Bodies gone ska, but the intervening year saw The Specials ditch that punky-reggae template. However, there was a tense moment towards the end of recording when Dammers decided at the last minute that he wanted to add a flute to the song, and with no free tracks available Collins was forced to record the flute directly onto the track containing the previously recorded brass section, with the possibility that any error would have rendered the entire track unusable: The guy who played the flute was a member of the band King and we recorded him in the hallway with a microphone at the top of the stairs to get the natural reverb from the stairwell. He left India at the age of 2, first living in Coventry, then moving to Sheffield at the age of 10. Sure, the band were earnest, but they were studiedly sarcastic, too, which endeared them to everyone from ageing punks to their younger siblings. [23], In December 2021, a commemorative plaque was affixed to the house where the former Woodbine Street recording studio was located. is a plea for racial tolerance and was written by guitarist Lynval Golding in response to a violent racist attack he had suffered in July 1980 outside the Moonlight Club in West Hampstead in London, which had left him hospitalised with broken ribs. 10th December 2008. 20 Years of Freedom - Britons receive South African . The look, which Dammers described as "defiant, Jamaican and hard", infiltrated all 2-Tone artwork, from sleeves to posters, T-shirts to badges. His initial music influences were 60's . The record does not so much end as lose the will to go on, sinking back into the fog. I think it is good, but I want to give it my best shot. And hes missing out on that, and its sad for him, to be honest.. Contemporaneous reviews identified the song's impact as an "instant musical editorial" on recent events (the 1981 England riots). The Specials were advocates of late-1970s postmodern ska, the inventors of two-tone and for the briefest of times quite simply one of the coolest, most important British bands of the post-punk period. Dammers was a Mod in the 1960s, then became a hippie, before becoming a skinhead. The area soon went back to normal, although the fact that there were even more boarded-up windows in the market and along the high street just made you think that whatever forms of gentrification were taking place, Brixton was never going to get any better as, every time it did, there would always be those who would find a way to destroy it (most of whom lived there). and The Spatial AKA Orchestra. Your economy is destroyed and, to me, thats what Ghost Town is all about.. While she would always say that she was empowering those who had previously been beholden to the state, Thatcher was criticised most often for having no idea what to do with communities when the safety net had been withdrawn. St Pauls was the first riot, so I was aware of the situation, he says today. Their first album of new material since 1998's Guilty 'Til Proven Innocent!, the album is also significant for marking the return of the band's original vocalist, Terry Hall, who left The Specials. Spent an afternoon listening to these without disappointment. [3], In the 1990s the song was featured in an episode of the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted. The week after the song was released bingo! To check the availability of The Specials tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094. They originally met when she directed the video for his 1997 single Ballad Of A Landlord, but. Gentrification eventually came to Brixton, inadvertently moving it upmarket not by much, but by enough. Jerry Dammers has launched a blistering attack on the Specials reunion and planned gigs, called them "a takeover, rather than a proper reunion" on the part of Terry Hall and his manager, Lynval Golding. Often squandered, but here it has found a very safe pair of hands. I had a friend who was chased down Gresham Road near Brixton Police Station by some of his black neighbours just because he happened to be white at the wrong time of day. The building which housed the club is now Coventry Central Library.[11]. / Friday Night, Saturday Morning. Join Facebook to connect with Jerry Dammers and others you may know. Youth unemployment was rife as the country felt the bite of Thatchers cuts and riots were erupting all over the country, riots that appeared, with eerie synchronicity, at the same time as Ghost Town. And I was thinking why doesn't anyone produce something equally as strong for Assange today? You could see that frustration and anger in the audience. The first I knew something was up was around five oclock in the afternoon, when I started to hear screaming, windows being smashed and the sound of accelerated running past the window. We were watching a live TV broadcast of the Brixton riots and saw this bloke smash a camera shop window and grab the biggest camera he could find, which looked like a Nikon with a motor drive, says my friend Chris Sullivan, the former owner of the Wag Club. Born in India, but raised in . Pride followed prosperity and in the summer of 2011, when opportunistic revellers attending a street party used the excuse of the riot in Tottenham a few days earlier to loot and burn a string of shops in Brixton, local residents were incensed, calling the thugs pathetic Its just an excuse for the young ones to come and rob shops. Jerry Dammers has been out of the musical limelight since the mid-1980s Of all the band feuds in all the world, the fall-out between Dammers and his ex-cohorts has to be one of the worst. The 1981 riots happened just a quarter of a mile from where I lived in The Oval, while the 1985 riot happened right outside my front door. The morning after the first 1981 riot was almost as bad as the riot itself, as the mess and the devastation made you feel as though you were living in a place that was never going to improve, that was only ever going to get worse. Oct 18 2019. For those of us who were not part of Thatcherisms good life, for those of us who were excluded, then Ghost Town spoke to our bruised hearts, says Tony Parsons, who was still writing for the NME at the time. For me and for so many others at the time, my support network was the black economy, acting as a cocktail barman at Brixtons chi-chi nightclub The Fridge one minute and bunking the tube the next. Ghost Town. The aural landscape is so vast that each member sounds disconnected from the next, says Dorian Lynskey, in his history of protest songs, 33 Revolutions Per Minute. Turns out when he opened it up to do some repairs on the 1966 organ, he discovered service notes from 30+ years ago that led him to believe that he might indeed be in possession of Dammers iconic instrument. Deliaphonic x Boudica presents Stealing Sheep's Wow Machine Jerry Dammers. Jerry Dammers, fundador del sello 2 Tone, letra que se opone directamente al gobierno . The first major Brixton riot, on 11 April, resulted in 450 injuries, the destruction or burning of more than 200 vehicles and 150 damaged buildings. "[10] The club referred to in the song was the Locarno (run by the Mecca Leisure Group and later renamed Tiffanys), a regular haunt of Neville Staple and Lynval Golding,[3] and which is also named as the club in "Friday Night, Saturday Morning", one of the songs on the B-side. Jerry Dammers attended Coventry's King Henry VIII School. One policeman said it looked like World War III. Just over 30 years ago, in March 1984, Jerry Dammers released Free Nelson Mandela with his band the Special AKA, and this straightforward, cheerful but angry demand for the release of South. Jerry Dammers will be given the Order of the Companions of OR Tambo, at a ceremony in Pretoria on Sunday. Dammers was born in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, South India, the son of Horace Dammers who was later Dean of Bristol Cathedral from 1973 to 1987. - Jerry Dammers/The Specials (1984) It was a simple song that packed a mighty punch, a masterstroke of music and politics, wrapped up in four glorious minutes of ska-infused beats from the pen of Jerry Dammers, of the UK group The Specials. Recording simply in mono really helped the instruments balance themselves." That summed it up for me. Ghost Town was obviously referencing the situation. I couldnt see it, couldnt smell it, but I just knew it was coming. Not only that, but they came from Coventry, Britains very own answer to Detroit, the epitome of the post-war urban wasteland, the quintessential concrete jungle, and felt they had a right to bleat about anything they wanted to, especially the determined onslaught of Thatcherism. He also founded 2 Tone Records. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Special events are being held at the weekend to mark Freedom Day, the 20th anniversary of South Africa's first democratic elections, in which Mandela was elected president. It was this event that started Dammers thinking of Ghost Town, a song that would go on to define him, his band, and two-tone in general. Theyre trying to kick me out of the band not at all mate, not at all., His bandmate, drummer John Bradbury explained: I spoke to Jerry night after night all through 2008, and at the end there just wasnt a meeting of the ways. Other Freedom Day events will include the premiere of the film One Humanity, which explores the history of the anti-apartheid campaign and the impact of the Mandela 70th birthday tribute concert, held at the old Wembley stadium in London in 1988 and seen by an estimated television audience of 600 million people around the world. Jeremy David Hounsell "Jerry" Dammers (born 22 May 1955) is a British musician who is a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry, England based ska revival band The Specials, The Special A.K.A. "Ghost Town" is a song by the British two-tone band the Specials, released on 12 June 1981. Today's crossword puzzle clue is a general knowledge one: The ____, English ska revival band founded in 1977 by Jerry Dammers. I looked through the vast, seven-foot-wide venetian blind that faced the street and I saw dozens of local residents almost exclusively young black men running by my window carrying record players, televisions, CD players, radios, amplifiers, microwaves, small fridges, speaker systems, anything they could carry. This was urban decay writ large, accompanied by a kick drum and a muted horn. Rhoda Dakar, of 2 Tone group The Bodysnatchers who also dueted with Terry on The Specials "I Can't Stand It" andsang with offshootThe Special AKA, wrote: Terrys gone, he died just after the football on Sunday. As they were due to appear on Top Of The Pops to promote the record, Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Neville Staples told Dammers they were going to leave, appearing a few months later as Fun Boy Three (werent they just) with their debut single, The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum, a record that owed much to the lyrics and orchestration of Ghost Town. 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