The Selecter at their absolute best with the original line up. Also two guitars rather than the one guitarist they now use in there performances . Two guitars just fill out the sound better. My favourite Ska band of all time.
@CASTELL182 Yes, a very powerful ska/skinhead reggae sound with a bit of punk-inspired aggression thrown in! The Selecter never quite got the same recognition that the Specials and Madness got, but this video shows that they should have!
CASTELL 182 I have always loved The Selecter since I first saw them on Top of the pops when I was a kid. Still love em now. Me and the Mrs saw them last year in Leeds and Pauline looked the same as she does here! Rhoda Dakker was there too.
Totally agree...the 2 guitar attack without horns was their sound....was very punk/urban and had an edge to it. Now they play with one guitar and horns.
So much love and respect for the top ska bands of that era. High energy grooves. Lethally catchy tunes. A time of legendary bands with so much soul. 🙏🏻Ska Bless Us All.
Too Much Pressure has to be my favourite Selecter song. I loved the whole 2Tone movement and what it stood for and am proud to have been a part of it. This video has made this 64 year old very happy.
I love this footage! How have I not seen this before? The Selecter had the best 2-guitar attack in 2-Tone, and is still unmatched by any ska band since. No horns needed - their sound was guitar-driven. Neol's strat sounds like it could cut thru steel. Pauline/Gaps are also the best vocal duo. They meshed like yin and yang, or maybe like Starsky and Hutch, moreso than like a smooth harmony duo. They had the style and attitude. I love how Desmond made a checkerboard pattern on the back of his Fred Perry with duct tape!
Watch this a couple of times a year . I don’t think there is a live performance from the band to match it. Agree with all your points . I also enjoy watching Neol soldiering on through broken guitar strings during the missing words solo . Charlie’s thumping bass and flailing dreads. The band literally grinding down the static audience into dance submission. A band enjoying their thing on stage. Pauline is on fire.
Agree. Totally brilliant. I think the Selecter were the best of the new Ska bands from the late 1970s/early 1980s. They really rock in this clip - and you can see why they were such a great 'live' band. I've pointed a few other Ska revival fans elsewhere on UA-cam to this clip - it's so good you can watch on repeat !
Three Minute Hero -- more like three decade champions, and counting. As much as I love all the frontline ska bands like The Specials, Madness, The (English) Beat, I get an energy and joy from The Selecter like no other. Great ensemble, and Pauline is beyond brilliant. Thank you to the uploader. What joy.
Desmond Brown is an underrated Hammond player. His parts are simple but perfectly timed and placed...punctuates and helps drive the groove. A masterclass in not overplaying...
Brilliant Ska Band! The Belgians don’t seem to get it. Either they are jaded, bored or indifferent. I’m not sure. This is dance music but with a message. You don’t listen and sit on your hands to this music. You get up and skank in place at least! What a great era this was! First Punk then the Ska revival. Britain had an incredible live music scene back then! Thanks to whoever uploaded this!
40 years ago in college I wrung out my brain on the Selecter and other ska bands! Loved it then lost it. Now i get it back with visuals! This is so stunning to see. Love Pauline!
SKA is still around, and thriving, and beautiful. a little tougher to find - i think Selector, specials, and skatalites were all touring within the last few years
@@chickrepelant Yes, they are all still touring and releasing records but they don't quite have the same urgency and energy of their former years. The Interrupters are possibly the only Ska band I know of today that sing about the divide in society and wanting to bring all people together.
It's the media that's try to divide us everyday they're forcing separation of race down our throats rather than unity. And unfortunately most people fool for the mainstream media's lies.
I formed a local ska band ten years ago and one gig we had was support to Pauline Black. She still has a powerful voice. I idolised the Selecter and the Specials when I was I my teens. The image of Charley with his sunburst Fender bass on the back of the first album was mesmerising. Looking back now they were a great band though my favourite bass player of 2 Tone was Horace, by far.
I miss Charlie H the drummer. All the alternative drummers do their best but Charlie had a kind of mosquito way of playing ska and reggae music. It could sting you and be agressive and it defined the sound of the Slecter.
I loved this group so much got me out of bed to go school as you just needed to dance My very very close best buddy has same name Gappa Hendrickson lol 🤭 I call him my happy gappy as he always has a smile on his face hi Gappa Gee love ya xx
pauline was so cool, and looks like she's still got it. If only we still had these kinds of bands to get the people off their lazy arses then the country might not be rolling over to corrupt government on a daily basis. take back your freedom people , governments have no right to take it, wake up and see that.
The Selector, what can I say. 1980 was my last year in secondary school, the job market was shit, NF making noise... The whole 2Tone movement made those days more bearable. Luckily, I appeared on the same bill as The Selector (in the 90s), and got to meet Pauline in person.
An excellent live performance, perhaps the tightest of any of the ska bands, even if Neol was having tuning issues (Strats!) And back then on stage monitoring could be indifferent.
@@rogermitchell8607 It's been said that the nearly all-black line-up of the Selecter made them more "authentic" than the other ska revival bands. Whether that's true or not, they certainly had something!
What is more incredible is that this happened more than 40 years ago! Maybe those days were more kind? Less racism? I just hope that the tolerant days come back!! Come on people!! We do not have to fight!!!
Ska was always kind of a silly genre to me. Sped up reggae that was way too damn happy and corny. Which is why “Ghost Town” is better than “A Message To You, Rudy”.
as a young person in the '80's this represented the "new world" we had in mind. Sounds as fresh as it did back then. And can we get to this new world my friends?
As a 61 year old very young skinhead in 1970 (the ORIGINAL skinheads) listening to "the liquidator" which is now played at my team Chelsea's ground before kick-off this "ska" movement started mid to. late seventies and was BRILLIANT!! bands like THE SELECTOR and MADNESS and BAD MANNERS etc etc...a GREAT time!!
Superb performance from a band who released probably the best album of that era (Celebrate The Bullet) then sadly imploded. Definitely can lay claim o being the best live band of the 2-tone era
This is good!! Takes me waaaaay back !!! The Selecter was/is such a good good band and this sound really makes me move my legs!!! Thanks to whoever posted this!!
Whoever uploaded this performance - thanks a million. Brilliant performance. Pauline Black's voice is phenomenal. Love the bass, keyboards and the lead guitarist is brilliant, too. Glad he managed to hold it together on 'Missing Words' - my favourite Selecter song - even though you could see his guitar went out of tune. Simply brilliant. Audience seem muted, though - perhaps an all-white group of French kids found Pauline Black et al a bit hard to take !
The Selecter was the best two tone band. Saw them a few years back, Pauline was still beautiful and the band was spot on. Very underrated and well worth the listen… Celebrate The Bullet
It looks like his guitar went out of tune as he was fiddling around with the tuning pegs. I'm a guitar player and it can happen, particularly when you play live.
Why on earth does the co -singer get kicked in the nuts and ends up on the floor during 'Too much pressure' ? Perhaps he was getting in Pauline Black's way !
Pauline is an absolute legend, the energy of the woman is amazing. Kicked many a man's ass on stage.
Saw Selector supporting the Stray Cats at Hammersmith in 2019 and the girl has still got it 😎
@@allangarwood9931 yep very true Allan : saw them support Midnight Oil - Peter Garrett and Pauline Black what an incredible front man / woman
She's really nice as well. I know Pauline personally from touring with the Selecter as a supporting act.
I’ve always loved them and pauline black gets better and better
She was perfect from the beginning.
The Selecter at their absolute best with the original line up. Also two guitars rather than the one guitarist they now use in there performances . Two guitars just fill out the sound better. My favourite Ska band of all time.
@CASTELL182
Yes, a very powerful ska/skinhead reggae sound with a bit of punk-inspired aggression thrown in! The Selecter never quite got the same recognition that the Specials and Madness got, but this video shows that they should have!
Your So Right Brilliant line up
CASTELL 182 I have always loved The Selecter since I first saw them on Top of the pops when I was a kid. Still love em now. Me and the Mrs saw them last year in Leeds and Pauline looked the same as she does here! Rhoda Dakker was there too.
Totally agree...the 2 guitar attack without horns was their sound....was very punk/urban and had an edge to it. Now they play with one guitar and horns.
Totally agree. Their energy and ensemble playing is phenomenal !😃😃
So much love and respect for the top ska bands of that era. High energy grooves. Lethally catchy tunes. A time of legendary bands with so much soul. 🙏🏻Ska Bless Us All.
Too Much Pressure has to be my favourite Selecter song. I loved the whole 2Tone movement and what it stood for and am proud to have been a part of it. This video has made this 64 year old very happy.
Greetings from Oregon class of 1978
As you should. Wish i had lived those years. Cool and interesting people all around
Got back to UK sep 78 Saw band not to many months after 64yrs old just ..RIP TERRY HALL ^ + the rest ♥️
62 year old as well!!!👍👍💪💪
2 tone ska music 🎶 for life 🎉
I love this footage! How have I not seen this before? The Selecter had the best 2-guitar attack in 2-Tone, and is still unmatched by any ska band since. No horns needed - their sound was guitar-driven. Neol's strat sounds like it could cut thru steel. Pauline/Gaps are also the best vocal duo. They meshed like yin and yang, or maybe like Starsky and Hutch, moreso than like a smooth harmony duo. They had the style and attitude. I love how Desmond made a checkerboard pattern on the back of his Fred Perry with duct tape!
Watch this a couple of times a year . I don’t think there is a live performance from the band to match it. Agree with all your points . I also enjoy watching Neol soldiering on through broken guitar strings during the missing words solo . Charlie’s thumping bass and flailing dreads. The band literally grinding down the static audience into dance submission. A band enjoying their thing on stage. Pauline is on fire.
Agree. Totally brilliant. I think the Selecter were the best of the new Ska bands from the late 1970s/early 1980s. They really rock in this clip - and you can see why they were such a great 'live' band.
I've pointed a few other Ska revival fans elsewhere on UA-cam to this clip - it's so good you can watch on repeat !
Three Minute Hero -- more like three decade champions, and counting. As much as I love all the frontline ska bands like The Specials, Madness, The (English) Beat, I get an energy and joy from The Selecter like no other. Great ensemble, and Pauline is beyond brilliant. Thank you to the uploader. What joy.
My old group toured with the reformed Selecter back in 97 in Germany.
Brilliant live footage, too much pressure ❤️
Desmond Brown is an underrated Hammond player. His parts are simple but perfectly timed and placed...punctuates and helps drive the groove. A masterclass in not overplaying...
Less is more, yeah!
You're damned right.
Geweldig, ik ben weer even 15 jaar, en kan weer lekker dansen
Brilliant Ska Band! The Belgians don’t seem to get it. Either they are jaded, bored or indifferent.
I’m not sure. This is dance music but with a message.
You don’t listen and sit on your hands to this music. You get up and skank in place at least!
What a great era this was!
First Punk then the Ska revival. Britain had an incredible live music scene back then! Thanks to whoever uploaded this!
Ooh yeah,they got it alright !!!❤
40 years ago in college I wrung out my brain on the Selecter and other ska bands! Loved it then lost it. Now i get it back with visuals! This is so stunning to see. Love Pauline!
We need bands like this now, to sort out the polarisation in our society.
SKA is still around, and thriving, and beautiful.
a little tougher to find - i think Selector, specials, and skatalites were all touring within the last few years
@@chickrepelant Yes, they are all still touring and releasing records but they don't quite have the same urgency and energy of their former years. The Interrupters are possibly the only Ska band I know of today that sing about the divide in society and wanting to bring all people together.
True.
It's the media that's try to divide us everyday they're forcing separation of race down our throats rather than unity. And unfortunately most people fool for the mainstream media's lies.
Yes! We are all in this together, fuck skin color......
I formed a local ska band ten years ago and one gig we had was support to Pauline Black. She still has a powerful voice. I idolised the Selecter and the Specials when I was I my teens. The image of Charley with his sunburst Fender bass on the back of the first album was mesmerising. Looking back now they were a great band though my favourite bass player of 2 Tone was Horace, by far.
There energy is so infectious, How the audience is not moving is beyond me. Saw them in 1991 and the whole place went mental.
@@ajs41 Well, I grew up in Ireland and at our local discos we always danced. Thanks for the insight.
the few times it cut to the audience they were grooving and by the end of it when they played their biggest hit On My Radio everyone was jamming out.
*Their
@@AntwhaleNearfar Is that what you do with your time? Going around correcting people's posts. LOL
I miss Charlie H the drummer. All the alternative drummers do their best but Charlie had a kind of mosquito way of playing ska and reggae music. It could sting you and be agressive and it defined the sound of the Slecter.
I loved this group so much got me out of bed to go school as you just needed to dance
My very very close best buddy has same name Gappa Hendrickson lol 🤭
I call him my happy gappy as he always has a smile on his face hi Gappa Gee love ya xx
pauline was so cool, and looks like she's still got it. If only we still had these kinds of bands to get the people off their lazy arses then the country might not be rolling over to corrupt government on a daily basis. take back your freedom people , governments have no right to take it, wake up and see that.
What a great performance! Best of all the Two-Tone bands. Best song i ? Danger - Red Light at the beginning of this set. Simply brilliant.
Classic live Set on French TV back in the Eighties! Incredible Energy! What a great Ska Band! Rude Boys and Girls! Get Up and Skank in Place! 😊
belgian TV 😁
@@raymondveranneman5506
Ok. I stand corrected. What’s the difference? They still speak French!
Compare this to today's anodyne, bland crap on MTV or that repetitive bass-heavy stuff called rap.
The Selector, what can I say. 1980 was my last year in secondary school, the job market was shit, NF making noise... The whole 2Tone movement made those days more bearable. Luckily, I appeared on the same bill as The Selector (in the 90s), and got to meet Pauline in person.
Why do so many people spell it wrong? It's The Selecter.
G🎉the Special😊❤❤❤
They look and sound slick. Makes you proud of what we had for a few great years.
An excellent live performance, perhaps the tightest of any of the ska bands, even if Neol was having tuning issues (Strats!) And back then on stage monitoring could be indifferent.
Thank you for these memories of youth skinhead-reggae !
THIS is the definitive version - dropping the first chorus just adds so much bite. Pauline is absolutely superb here as is the whole band. Amazing!
yeah, it was a fever in all Europe, for my generation, same in Italy we went all crazy for ska
damn this is so good!!!!!
Great memories see few groups at marque London in late 1979 , sure see these too, and madness in Camden happy days
Best band best front woman ever.
Greetings from Fort Worth, Texas. I love you Pauline. Always have.
Not just one, or two or even three... but 4 or 5 great great ska bands from the UK in one year!!
Thanks for this. Always on the look out for Selecter footage from 1979-1981.
The real selecter
@@rogermitchell8607
It's been said that the nearly all-black line-up of the Selecter made them more "authentic" than the other ska revival bands. Whether that's true or not, they certainly had something!
I like the part where they go 'too much preshah"...
The Selecter are proof that you don't need any horns to make top level ska music.
my favorite band ! cheers
Such colo Song
15:43 Really ?? Nobody is dancing? How can anybody stand still when The Selecter are playing??
Pauline Black stage name born as Belinda Magnus great performer at the time
What is more incredible is that this happened more than 40 years ago! Maybe those days were more kind? Less racism? I just hope that the tolerant days come back!! Come on people!! We do not have to fight!!!
what a gem, SAVED.
For all the douchey Pop tarts Kanye etc this is what actual talent sounds like no auto Correct no auto chorus no Grammarly lol this is SKA!
Ahh takes me back.
☝😎🔥
Ska was always kind of a silly genre to me. Sped up reggae that was way too damn happy and corny. Which is why “Ghost Town” is better than “A Message To You, Rudy”.
Well technically Ska is before Reggae, so Reggae is a slowed down Ska.
Saw them live in 1980 at Lancaster….they were excellent and even won over the NF thugs there
A crunching ska beat
as a young person in the '80's this represented the "new world" we had in mind. Sounds as fresh as it did back then. And can we get to this new world my friends?
Let's keep working to make it happen
Fantastic! I have never seen this performance before. Thanks!
Love it!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Pauline is on absolute fire here !!
What! SKA was before Reggae? When I`ve heard this, I was really surprised...
Ska, Rocksteady then Reggae
The two tone music of late 70s had elements of rock and punk too
@@TheMusicianTom : of course! for Example RANTANPLAN is a german Skapunkband
As a 61 year old very young skinhead in 1970 (the ORIGINAL skinheads) listening to "the liquidator" which is now played at my team Chelsea's ground before kick-off this "ska" movement started mid to. late seventies and was BRILLIANT!! bands like THE SELECTOR and MADNESS and BAD MANNERS etc etc...a GREAT time!!
None of this diversity stuff. Ska was everyone. Nothing more
There it is said !!!
Thank You !!!
wher did all the good music go ? what happened ? it all dissappeared !! the selectors lps r hard to find !!
Music got so deep, serious and cerebral in the '90s that we forgot how to dance and have a good time to get our troubles off our minds!
:'(
WE HAD RAVE CULTURE IN THE LATE 80s, early 90s
Awesome., my favorite. 😮😮😮
Mad crush on Pauline when I was a teenager trying to be ska in suburban LA in late 70's. Watching her now...still do
I wonder if Pauline has seen this video.
Superb performance from a band who released probably the best album of that era (Celebrate The Bullet) then sadly imploded. Definitely can lay claim o being the best live band of the 2-tone era
They reformed and are still touring now !...
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This is last year at the Round House. Still kicking it !
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Both albums were great but quite different
Great performance, thanks for posting
This is good!! Takes me waaaaay back !!! The Selecter was/is such a good good band and this sound really makes me move my legs!!! Thanks to whoever posted this!!
So glad i saw this ball of energy and message in concert, when I was a boy. Up the 2 Tone!
You can see why the Selecter had such a reputation as a great live band. Never saw them perform live - but this is nearly as good ! 😃😃
S.H.A.R.P.
Me too mate. Respect.
So great and sadly overlooked
Great Band of there time Love the Selecter
Whoever uploaded this performance - thanks a million. Brilliant performance. Pauline Black's voice is phenomenal. Love the bass, keyboards and the lead guitarist is brilliant, too. Glad he managed to hold it together on 'Missing Words' - my favourite Selecter song - even though you could see his guitar went out of tune. Simply brilliant. Audience seem muted, though - perhaps an all-white group of French kids found Pauline Black et al a bit hard to take !
It´s a Gem,isn´t it !?🥰
joyeus
Probably the best live 2 tone band in my opinion.
100% Their sound is made for live. It's a great band. I love, love, their Pioneers covers.
@@LarzGustafsson agreed bro
Absolutely
Glass house Pomona 1991 .. shook Pauline’s. Hand. !! Awesome show
So jealous!
Pauline,I love you
Love Paulines energy on stage ❤
Pauline Black and Gaps Hendrickson! Legendary vocals
❤👍
Wish my life was as good as this performance.
Don't we all!!
I love your Comment !!!
Absolutely cracking ...The Selecter on top form .... props to the sound guys this is a great mix.
LOVE The Selecter!! Got me skanking on a Tuesday night 🤩👌⚡️⚡️
Thank you very much of this video, this is real gem, i love to watch Pauline, such energy pack and voice like no other.
Me,feeling exactly the same !!!!
The Selecter was the best two tone band. Saw them a few years back, Pauline was still beautiful and the band was spot on. Very underrated and well worth the listen… Celebrate The Bullet
Best ska band of the lot
CARRY GO HOME ANOTHER BRILLIANT TRACK PAULINE THE QUEEN OF SKA NO DOUBT
Just love this ska scene...
Pauline is a must...
Many thanks for this.
Thank youuu... What a great concert
Saw them a couple of days ago in Novi sad Exit
Fantastic !!!
Noel,, dont worry about the bum notes on the solo, you made it sound like it should have been there 😁👍👍👍
It looks like his guitar went out of tune as he was fiddling around with the tuning pegs. I'm a guitar player and it can happen, particularly when you play live.
@@theselector4733 I also play guitar 👍
@@tezotezo8532 So you know what I'm talking about then. Good
It’s NEOL. He wrote the (top 10 hit) song and he can play it (i.e., improvise around it) any way he wants!
He broke a string
Feel 40 years younger....
Ska girls
This is hardcore SKA at it’s very best!!!
Why on earth does the co -singer get kicked in the nuts and ends up on the floor during 'Too much pressure' ? Perhaps he was getting in Pauline Black's way !
yeh, what is that ?
They’re acting! Demonstrating the tense situation in Britain then.
@@leondavies4480 i appreciate your knowledge of interpretive dance. best ska band too.
@@TheDocRitchie Thanks! In case you haven’t guessed it from our names, I’m Neol’s brother.
Because he couldn’t sing the high notes without testicular realignment
GREAT ENERGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For me the best ska band.I saw them in Brum in 1980 and 81.Superb. I ve seen them several more times in the last 40 years and still love.
2Tone 4eva!
Great band and the best 2 ton
Fabulous set, every one of them looking as sharp as a razor.
Hola soy de argentina y quería saber que fue de la vida de los integrantes originales de the selecter
Siguen tocando. Esta es la página theselecter.net/
Very authentic to studio album takes!
L E G E N D S !!!