The Allskas at The Coventry Mint

Continuing to work through a back-log of photos that have built up over the last month or so here's a gig I went to back on the 23rd of May. It was The Allskas at The Coventry Mint (that's upstairs at the Golden Cross) - featuring ex-members of legendry 2-Tone band The Selecter Arthur 'Gaps' Hendrickson (vocals), Charles 'H' Bembridge (Aitch) on drums and Charley Anderson (Bass guitar) - I hope I've got all that right !

I don't know much about 2-Tone and I only have a few "best of" albums but knew about the 2-Tone@30 celebrations so I decided to pop along. I really enjoyed the music and even recognised the odd song or two (Too Much Pressure for example).

Pete Chambers (Coventry music aficionado/local music historian and writer of many great books) was present and DJ Cardboard got the audience in a fine mood for what was a top evenings entertainment. I decided to purchase a copy of Petes book "2-Tone-2 Dispatches from the 2-Tone City - 30 Years On" and can vouch that it's an interesting read and has some stunning photography from John Coles in it too.

Anyway it was a top night - well done all !

My photos from the evening can be seen here

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