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50 years and all that jazz

The Tierra Buena Jazz Band is 50 years old this year. I have never been a lover of modern jazz, too much pretension, not enough music. Read

Getting on stage again is a dream, say The Specials

TELEGRAPH columnist Pete Chambers talks exclusively to The Specials about their forthcoming reunion tour. Read

To get up on stage again to play to the fans is going to be a real celebration. It’s a dream.

With excitement building following last week’s news that The Specials will celebrate their 30th anniversary by going on tour, Coventry music historian and 2-Tone fan PETE CHAMBERS talks to band members, Lynval Golding, Horace Panter and Roddy Byers about going back on the road. Read

Great tribute acts, but the real Vince steals the show

STARS turned out in force to raise cash for Children in Need with a 1960s flashback show in Leamington. Read

From a concertina to the cataracts and then radio1

STUART COLMAN was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, on December 19, 1944, a product of a musical family. Read

A launch night to remember

THERE are good nights in one's life, then there are nights that will live in the memory forever. Read

Strum-thing extra special

ON November 4, some lucky 2-Tone fan will win a piece of history, not just that, but a piece of history that can be played! Read

Colin opens a new chapter in music

THE name may be familiar, though many readers will acquaint the name Colin Armstrong not with music, but more likely with books of the secondhand variety. Read

Trojans march on with rock and soul mix

FROM the ashes of the Leamington/Warwick band The Jokers, up sprang a new combo, and hey presto, The Trojans were born. Read

Calling all the local heroes

TOWARDS the end of next year, the stunning new Herbert will play host to a music exhibition that goes all the way back to the birth of rock 'n' roll. Read

Sixties sounds making a big noise for charity

ANYONE fancying a bit of time travel back to the 60s should get down to Harbury Rugby Club this Saturday and be prepared to do some good time rocking. Read

Drumming up a worldwide following

BOBBIE CLARKE was and still is one of the world's finest drummers, he is known as the 'man who drummed the world'. Many of his fans, however, may not know that the legendary Bobbie is actually a Coventry Kid. Read

Roddy's special brand of skabilly

WHILE many of us are looking to see if The Specials are to re-form, the various members are carrying on earning a crust like they always have. Former Specials axe man Roddy 'Radiation' Byers, has never rested on his 2-Tone laurels. Indeed he has been rocking with his own bands, much longer than The Specials ever did. Read

Echoes of the past for band's guitarist

IF you were part of the local scene in the early 60s the name Tony Martin and the Echo Four will be a familiar one. Always gigging and always getting a huge crowd, they were a big deal back then. Today we talk to the band's guitarist Mac Watts about his life, his musical career and a lost guitar! Read

The family who live for music to the Macs

ANDY MAC is a local musician, part of a proud musical dynasty. Read

Walk of fame is biggest star attraction on special day

I Love it when a plan comes together, and at noon on Friday, one very large, long-running plan came to fruition pretty well perfectly. Read

Walk of fame gets an anthem of its own

ON Friday at noon in Priory place, Coventry's Walk of Fame is unveiled to the world. Read

Greatness eluded the Adorable lads

THE local music scene is littered with bands that nearly had it all; bands that convinced you they would be huge stars, then for no good reason it never materialised. Read

From The Orchid to The Kasbah

WIND things back to the early 60s and the building that stands at 51 Primrose Hill Street - it had just finished its time as the Majestic Ballroom - has just become the Orchid Ballroom to be run by entrepreneur Larry Page. Read

Rock has solid foundation at Charterhouse

DANNY AND THE JUNIORS once sang the refrain, "I don't care what people say, rock 'n' roll is here to stay". Read

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