Pauline is an absolute legend, the energy of the woman is amazing. Kicked many a man's ass on stage.

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!!

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.

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.

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.

Geweldig, ik ben weer even 15 jaar, en kan weer lekker dansen

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...

We need bands like this now, to sort out the polarisation in our society.

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! 😊

There energy is so infectious, How the audience is not moving is beyond me. Saw them in 1991 and the whole place went mental.

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.

My old group toured with the reformed Selecter back in 97 in Germany.

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!

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!

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

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.

Brilliant live footage, too much pressure ❤️

Thank you for these memories of youth skinhead-reggae !

Not just one, or two or even three... but 4 or 5 great great ska bands from the UK in one year!!

KILLER set

They look and sound slick. Makes you proud of what we had for a few great years.

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!

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?

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!

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

yeah, it was a fever in all Europe, for my generation, same in Italy we went all crazy for ska

Saw them live in 1980 at Lancaster….they were excellent and even won over the NF thugs there

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! :'(

what a gem, SAVED.

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.

The Selecter are proof that you don't need any horns to make top level ska music.

Greetings from Fort Worth, Texas. I love you Pauline. Always have.

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 ! 😃😃

Great memories see few groups at marque London in late 1979 , sure see these too, and madness in Camden happy days

Pauline is on absolute fire here !!

So glad i saw this ball of energy and message in concert, when I was a boy. Up the 2 Tone!

Best band best front woman ever.

Wish my life was as good as this performance.

my favorite band ! cheers

Great Band of there time Love the Selecter

Such colo Song

Ahh takes me back.

Pauline Black stage name born as Belinda Magnus great performer at the time

I’ve always loved them and pauline black gets better and better

Fantastic! I have never seen this performance before. Thanks!

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LOVE The Selecter!! Got me skanking on a Tuesday night 🤩👌⚡️⚡️

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.

Love Paulines energy on stage ❤

Probably the best live 2 tone band in my opinion.

So great and sadly overlooked

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!!!

Absolutely cracking ...The Selecter on top form .... props to the sound guys this is a great mix.

Love it!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Awesome., my favorite. 😮😮😮

damn this is so good!!!!!

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.

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

Thanks for this. Always on the look out for Selecter footage from 1979-1981.

Pauline Black and Gaps Hendrickson! Legendary vocals

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.

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 !

Just love this ska scene... Pauline is a must...

Fabulous set, every one of them looking as sharp as a razor.

Best ska band of the lot

Thank you very much of this video, this is real gem, i love to watch Pauline, such energy pack and voice like no other.

We all got our favourites but The Selecter are the best

Great band and the best 2 ton

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!!

Great performance, thanks for posting

GREAT ENERGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

G🎉the Special😊❤❤❤

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

love it never heard this song before

Thanki you!

Feel 40 years younger....

What! SKA was before Reggae? When I`ve heard this, I was really surprised...

Tres, merci. 😎

A crunching ska beat

Meravigliosi e indimenticabili Grazie

Thank youuu... What a great concert Saw them a couple of days ago in Novi sad Exit Fantastic !!!

Very authentic to studio album takes!

This is hardcore SKA at it’s very best!!!

So grateful for this unique footage

Glass house Pomona 1991 .. shook Pauline’s. Hand. !! Awesome show

First time I've listened, excellent

Pauline,I love you

☝😎🔥

Many thanks for this.

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.

great !

My favorite❤️

S.H.A.R.P.

The most authentically Caribbean sounding of the English 80s Ska bands.

The Selecter...YEAH!

Frickin Rocks!!

Noel,, dont worry about the bum notes on the solo, you made it sound like it should have been there 😁👍👍👍

so good

muy bueno!!!