Pauline is an absolute legend, the energy of the woman is amazing. Kicked many a man's ass on stage.
@allangarwood99312 жыл бұрын
Saw Selector supporting the Stray Cats at Hammersmith in 2019 and the girl has still got it 😎
@arshk3612 Жыл бұрын
@@allangarwood9931 yep very true Allan : saw them support Midnight Oil - Peter Garrett and Pauline Black what an incredible front man / woman
@karlschneider9479Ай бұрын
She's really nice as well. I know Pauline personally from touring with the Selecter as a supporting act.
@piersgrowcott817916 күн бұрын
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!!
@kitesurf58phil2 жыл бұрын
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.
@laurenduvall8547 Жыл бұрын
Greetings from Oregon class of 1978
@lucianoriva6979 Жыл бұрын
As you should. Wish i had lived those years. Cool and interesting people all around
@mickbrown8249 Жыл бұрын
Got back to UK sep 78 Saw band not to many months after 64yrs old just ..RIP TERRY HALL ^ + the rest ♥️
@CASTELL1825 жыл бұрын
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.
@johnnyb88255 жыл бұрын
@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!
@goddersollie674 жыл бұрын
Your So Right Brilliant line up
@lennywebb67404 жыл бұрын
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.
@markanderson80723 жыл бұрын
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.
@bennewton70632 жыл бұрын
Totally agree. Their energy and ensemble playing is phenomenal !😃😃
@jpm9628 Жыл бұрын
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.
@ericdebruin40482 жыл бұрын
Geweldig, ik ben weer even 15 jaar, en kan weer lekker dansen
@TheB3Nut3 жыл бұрын
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...
@brahmafria3 жыл бұрын
Less is more, yeah!
@diegosoru71362 жыл бұрын
You're damned right.
@katoness3 жыл бұрын
We need bands like this now, to sort out the polarisation in our society.
@chickrepelant3 жыл бұрын
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
@katoness3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@ajs413 жыл бұрын
True.
@MistaFisto3 жыл бұрын
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.
@gutterdocmd2 жыл бұрын
Yes! We are all in this together, fuck skin color......
@dynjarren8355 Жыл бұрын
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! 😊
@raymondveranneman5506 Жыл бұрын
belgian TV 😁
@dynjarren8355 Жыл бұрын
@@raymondveranneman5506 Ok. I stand corrected.
@katoness6 жыл бұрын
There energy is so infectious, How the audience is not moving is beyond me. Saw them in 1991 and the whole place went mental.
@katoness3 жыл бұрын
@@ajs41 Well, I grew up in Ireland and at our local discos we always danced. Thanks for the insight.
@snek093 жыл бұрын
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.
@AntwhaleNearfar2 жыл бұрын
*Their
@katoness2 жыл бұрын
@@AntwhaleNearfar Is that what you do with your time? Going around correcting people's posts. LOL
@TheMusicianTom2 жыл бұрын
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.
@karlschneider9479Ай бұрын
My old group toured with the reformed Selecter back in 97 in Germany.
@stevehawes21133 жыл бұрын
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!
@markanderson8072 Жыл бұрын
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.
@user-wp8vy8le3y6 ай бұрын
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 KZfaq to this clip - it's so good you can watch on repeat !
@jeffw861611 ай бұрын
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!
@waldenharwood Жыл бұрын
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
@brc2173 Жыл бұрын
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.
@nevetsgnil1962 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant live footage, too much pressure ❤️
@Philosophiesocialiste2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for these memories of youth skinhead-reggae !
@MUSIC4TRUTH.... Жыл бұрын
Not just one, or two or even three... but 4 or 5 great great ska bands from the UK in one year!!
@fosterch11 Жыл бұрын
KILLER set
@johnnytenjobs5 жыл бұрын
They look and sound slick. Makes you proud of what we had for a few great years.
@dynjarren83554 жыл бұрын
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!
@TSUKNIDA2 ай бұрын
Ooh yeah,they got it alright !!!❤
@jefffd2003 жыл бұрын
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?
@laurenduvall8547 Жыл бұрын
Let's keep working to make it happen
@LaughingStock_3 жыл бұрын
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!
@adammwalch2 жыл бұрын
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
@walterpiana79122 жыл бұрын
yeah, it was a fever in all Europe, for my generation, same in Italy we went all crazy for ska
@andysmith88902 жыл бұрын
Saw them live in 1980 at Lancaster….they were excellent and even won over the NF thugs there
@shruggzdastr8-facedclown4 жыл бұрын
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! :'(
@acidthunder13 жыл бұрын
WE HAD RAVE CULTURE IN THE LATE 80s, early 90s
@johnday7134Ай бұрын
what a gem, SAVED.
@Shemra4 жыл бұрын
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.
@lennywebb67403 жыл бұрын
Why do so many people spell it wrong? It's The Selecter.
@titaniumpecker2 жыл бұрын
The Selecter are proof that you don't need any horns to make top level ska music.
@kroberts98844 жыл бұрын
Greetings from Fort Worth, Texas. I love you Pauline. Always have.
@bennewton70632 жыл бұрын
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 ! 😃😃
@karensterling55972 жыл бұрын
Great memories see few groups at marque London in late 1979 , sure see these too, and madness in Camden happy days
@markanderson8072 Жыл бұрын
Pauline is on absolute fire here !!
@theonlyantony3 жыл бұрын
So glad i saw this ball of energy and message in concert, when I was a boy. Up the 2 Tone!
@michaeloruaidh36052 жыл бұрын
Best band best front woman ever.
@ZBot475 жыл бұрын
Wish my life was as good as this performance.
@LadyCypher542 жыл бұрын
Don't we all!!
@TSUKNIDA2 ай бұрын
I love your Comment !!!
@2001lextalionis6 жыл бұрын
my favorite band ! cheers
@goddersollie674 жыл бұрын
Great Band of there time Love the Selecter
@thaithommy7 ай бұрын
Such colo Song
@NotAFanAnymore2 жыл бұрын
Ahh takes me back.
@aggisdemetri4 жыл бұрын
Pauline Black stage name born as Belinda Magnus great performer at the time
@chrissmith85263 жыл бұрын
I’ve always loved them and pauline black gets better and better
@callimero20103 жыл бұрын
She was perfect from the beginning.
@Atananaki Жыл бұрын
Fantastic! I have never seen this performance before. Thanks!
LOVE The Selecter!! Got me skanking on a Tuesday night 🤩👌⚡️⚡️
@oddbod86553 жыл бұрын
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.
@Roscoe.P.Coldchain Жыл бұрын
Love Paulines energy on stage ❤
@adybullock68625 жыл бұрын
Probably the best live 2 tone band in my opinion.
@monolito4 жыл бұрын
100% Their sound is made for live. It's a great band. I love, love, their Pioneers covers.
@ijatoo4 жыл бұрын
@@LarzGustafsson agreed bro
@brettthompson27434 жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@outtathyme56794 жыл бұрын
So great and sadly overlooked
@oveu85873 жыл бұрын
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!!!
@markanderson80723 жыл бұрын
Absolutely cracking ...The Selecter on top form .... props to the sound guys this is a great mix.
@bridge0370 Жыл бұрын
Love it!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@harveyg104Ай бұрын
Awesome., my favorite. 😮😮😮
@philpheburbs11 ай бұрын
damn this is so good!!!!!
@InGuyFawkesWeTrust16052 жыл бұрын
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.
@bullyruf5 жыл бұрын
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
@dominiquebernard94143 жыл бұрын
They reformed and are still touring now !...
@dominiquebernard94143 жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zs6djbNer9m8lYE.html
@dominiquebernard94143 жыл бұрын
This is last year at the Round House. Still kicking it ! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mLKZq5mVtZi9o2Q.html
@TheMusicianTom2 жыл бұрын
Both albums were great but quite different
@darrenherbert8765 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. Always on the look out for Selecter footage from 1979-1981.
@rogermitchell86075 жыл бұрын
The real selecter
@johnnyb88255 жыл бұрын
@@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!
@dsszerothlaw3 жыл бұрын
Pauline Black and Gaps Hendrickson! Legendary vocals
@TSUKNIDA2 ай бұрын
❤👍
@wbertie2604 Жыл бұрын
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.
@bennewton70632 жыл бұрын
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 !
@TSUKNIDA2 ай бұрын
It´s a Gem,isn´t it !?🥰
@oswaldomf58293 жыл бұрын
Just love this ska scene... Pauline is a must...
@mikebott69405 жыл бұрын
Fabulous set, every one of them looking as sharp as a razor.
@mickmcgowan77564 жыл бұрын
Best ska band of the lot
@pihakamera2 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much of this video, this is real gem, i love to watch Pauline, such energy pack and voice like no other.
@TSUKNIDA2 ай бұрын
Me,feeling exactly the same !!!!
@ZacharySlatts4 жыл бұрын
We all got our favourites but The Selecter are the best
@bennewton70632 жыл бұрын
Great band and the best 2 ton
@oveu85873 жыл бұрын
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!!
@MrWheeze6 жыл бұрын
Great performance, thanks for posting
@OLIVERBLEES2 жыл бұрын
GREAT ENERGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@thaithommy Жыл бұрын
G🎉the Special😊❤❤❤
@cashyuk1 Жыл бұрын
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
@patrickhicks98802 жыл бұрын
love it never heard this song before
@soumaisquebatatafrita2 жыл бұрын
Thanki you!
@gregclayton75253 жыл бұрын
Feel 40 years younger....
@Dachtewitz2 жыл бұрын
What! SKA was before Reggae? When I`ve heard this, I was really surprised...
@SivarRude2 жыл бұрын
Ska, Rocksteady then Reggae
@TheMusicianTom Жыл бұрын
The two tone music of late 70s had elements of rock and punk too
@Dachtewitz Жыл бұрын
@@TheMusicianTom : of course! for Example RANTANPLAN is a german Skapunkband
@huwzebediahthomas91932 жыл бұрын
Tres, merci. 😎
@johnnagle84982 жыл бұрын
A crunching ska beat
@salvatorebonavoglia59423 жыл бұрын
Meravigliosi e indimenticabili Grazie
@spiritov695 жыл бұрын
Thank youuu... What a great concert Saw them a couple of days ago in Novi sad Exit Fantastic !!!
@beano1eye5 жыл бұрын
Very authentic to studio album takes!
@Bjornontour2 жыл бұрын
This is hardcore SKA at it’s very best!!!
@johan55M4 жыл бұрын
So grateful for this unique footage
@TSUKNIDA2 ай бұрын
Me too !!!
@199gonzo4 жыл бұрын
Glass house Pomona 1991 .. shook Pauline’s. Hand. !! Awesome show
@stephenspark7763 жыл бұрын
So jealous!
@josephdexplosivejoe5814 жыл бұрын
First time I've listened, excellent
@franciscoasencio4065 Жыл бұрын
Pauline,I love you
@MirekK Жыл бұрын
☝😎🔥
@fredricparker77256 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for this.
@skatrain0072 жыл бұрын
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.
@alexlemagie86492 жыл бұрын
great !
@busterbluesun3 жыл бұрын
My favorite❤️
@Invading-Specious5 жыл бұрын
S.H.A.R.P.
@lennywebb67404 жыл бұрын
Me too mate. Respect.
@liborsionko3 жыл бұрын
The most authentically Caribbean sounding of the English 80s Ska bands.
@davidbeverly64114 жыл бұрын
The Selecter...YEAH!
@MrBillagordon2 жыл бұрын
Frickin Rocks!!
@tezotezo85323 жыл бұрын
Noel,, dont worry about the bum notes on the solo, you made it sound like it should have been there 😁👍👍👍
@theselector47332 жыл бұрын
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.
@tezotezo85322 жыл бұрын
@@theselector4733 I also play guitar 👍
@theselector47332 жыл бұрын
@@tezotezo8532 So you know what I'm talking about then. Good
@leondavies44802 жыл бұрын
It’s NEOL. He wrote the (top 10 hit) song and he can play it (i.e., improvise around it) any way he wants!