Dammers was born in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, South India, as the son of Horace Dammers, the Dean of Bristol Cathedral from 1973 to 1987. Contents Paul morley talks to jerry dammers First we lose Lemmy, now news that Brad from the Specials has passed away. Contemporaneous reviews identified the song's impact as an "instant musical editorial" on recent events (the 1981 England riots). [23], In December 2021, a commemorative plaque was affixed to the house where the former Woodbine Street recording studio was located. He ran off with it, but then as soon as he passed an off licence, he stopped, turned around and then threw it through the window. The 1980s riots were devoured so much by the international media that the burning oil drum became as much a part of modern British iconography as the white suits in the 1981 television adaptation of Evelyn Waughs Brideshead Revisited and for a while seemed to appear in any film about the British underclass, surrounded by a gang of Rada-trained professional cockneys and a smattering of generic gangsters, drug dealers and punky fishnets molls. Man behind song that became an anti-apartheid anthem to receive award for outstanding work benefiting the country, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Jerry Dammers said the award was a 'fantastic honour'. And the faster I started to walk, the slower I became. It does not seem like he is in a relationship either. Like all great records about social collapse, it seems to both fear and relish calamity. The video's locations include driving through the Rotherhithe Tunnel and around semi-derelict areas of the East End as well as in Lothbury and Throgmorton Street in the financial district of the City of London in the early hours of daylight on Sunday morning, where the streets were deserted as it was the weekend. He felt that there was something very, very wrong affecting the country. I saw the reformed Specials support Blur at their gig in Hyde park in 2012 and the band looked like a bunch of fiftysomething cab drivers and sounded like the musical equivalent of a Sunday morning football match. The Specials are due to play a series of 30th anniversary gigs in the spring of 2009, with the tour being billed as a full reunion. 20 Years of Freedom - Britons receive South African . News of the drummer's death was announced earlier today. The riots themselves felt contemporary and weirdly particular. [24], In 2022, it was included in the list "The story of NME in 70 (mostly) seminal songs" at number 19, for "Lacing ska and reggae with the amphetamine edge of new wave". I think it is good, but I want to give it my best shot. DJing, drumming in bands who were never going to get signed, running a Sunday market stall in Camden Lock having spent the early hours buying up bric-a-brac in Brick Lane. Speaking ahead of the newly . Jerry Dammers experimented with lounge-noir on their second album, causing intra-band friction. This situation was particularly fraught in the London borough of Lambeth, where over a quarter of the population were black, while 40 per cent of those were under 19. I dont think he likes the idea of touring, to be honest. C'est le genre de miracles que sont capables de raliser les Gorillaz. Apr 07 2010. [12][13], Collins took a recording of the separate tracks back to his home in Tottenham in north London where he spent three weeks mixing the song. Ghost Town. With its melancholic wailing, its hypnotic lope, its ominous organs and The people getting angry chant, there is no better mirror to the societal privations of 1981, a year that often felt on the brink of collapse. [8], The tour for the group's More Specials album in late 1980 had been a fraught experience: already tired from a long touring schedule and with several band members at odds with keyboardist and band leader Jerry Dammers over his decision to incorporate "muzak" keyboard sounds on the album, several of the gigs descended into audience violence. The looters (even though they were ostensibly rioting, all they were really doing was stealing) did actually run up to the first floor, although they immediately headed back down again as the sound of sirens approached. During his formulative years Jerry was a mod, hippie and skinhead. Nothing. Pride followed prosperity and in the summer of 2011, when opportunistic revellers attending a street party used the excuse of the riot in Tottenham a few days earlier to loot and burn a string of shops in Brixton, local residents were incensed, calling the thugs pathetic Its just an excuse for the young ones to come and rob shops. 20th February 2009. Led Zeppelin, David Crosby, Nina Simone, Paul Weller, Mark Eitzel and much more, The Public Enemy commander on the records that inspired him to bring the noise: It was scientific alchemy! Jungle Music (Groove Tunnel Mix) by Urang Matang (2019) The flat was right behind the Ritzy cinema, just off Coldharbour Lane, a first-floor, two-bedroomed housing association flat that backed on to a small courtyard and faced Brixtons Front Line. For a short while, I felt as though I could have been the last person in the capital. The song was as much about the dissolution of the band as much as deindustrialisation and the toxicity of the streets. It was this tense environment that produced the extraordinary sound of Ghost Town. Brads drumming was the powerhouse behind the Specials, and it was seen as a key part to the 2 Tone sound. London wouldnt experience riots again for another 26 years, when the looters couldnt even be bothered to swathe their frustration with their own plight with anything tangible; the looting in 2011 was simply an excuse to steal some new trainers. [2] The song spent three weeks at number one and 11 weeks in total in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. [12], As it had not been decided where exactly the backing vocals would be used, Terry Hall, Staple, Golding and Dammers sang a full backing vocal track throughout the song, which Collins used to his advantage as the lyric "this town is coming like a ghost town" had become like a "hypnotic chant" by the end of the song. Dammers said: "I was watching the news one day and they showed a football match in South Africa where the song was being played on the loudspeakers. "Ghost Town" is a song by the British two-tone band the Specials, released on 12 June 1981. Hearing of Brads death has been a great shock to me and it is a very sad day indeed, said Dammers in a statement. We havent changed that much, we still take the piss out of each other, theres an understanding that hasnt gone away. From 2001 to 2012, the Afro-Caribbean population of Lambeth, the borough that houses Brixton, fell by eight per cent, even though the boroughs overall population rose by nine per cent. Recently, someone asked what Terry Hall was like. [14] Panter remembered, "Everybody was stood in different parts of this huge room with their equipment, no one talking. Not only that, but they came from Coventry, Britains very own answer to Detroit, the epitome of the post-war urban wasteland, the quintessential concrete jungle, and felt they had a right to bleat about anything they wanted to, especially the determined onslaught of Thatcherism. Amongthe others who have shared kind words and remembrances: Belinda Carlisle,Boy George, Rage Against the Machine,Dexy's Midnight Runners, Billy Bragg,Squeeze's Chris Difford, The Sleaford Mods, Ted Leo, Rancid, The Interrupters, Lush's Miki Berenyi, Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley, Everything But the Girl'sTracey Thorn, Less Than Jake,The Brian Jonestown Massacre's Anton Newcombe,Matt Sharp (Weezer, The Rentals), Geoff Barrow (Portishead, Beak>),The Charlatans' Tim Burgess, former Cure member Lol Tolhurst, The Mountain Goats, Michael McKean, Jon Cryer, Sparks, Mark McGrath, Frank Turner, Catbite, Shepard Fairey, director Tim Pope,and more. The Human League, The Who, Lloyd Cole, Ultravox, Deep Purple, The Eagles, Golden Earring and Simply Red were all treading the boards again, seemingly regardless of how these opportunistic outings would ultimately affect their legacies. The Mandalorian season three first look review: Baby Yodas back, Mae Stephens colourful funk-pop sound is transcending TikTok, Shania Twain: Im probably most proud of not giving up on my voice, Final Fantasy 16 is a lavish RPG twist on Bayonetta and its all the better for it. Terry Hall and Jerry Dammers, musicians with the New Wave/Ska band The Specials, are shown seated behind a microphone, wearing suits. On Tuesdays doing the door at a West End nightclub (where essentially you let in your friends for free and drank the profits) and on Wednesdays waking up with enough time to sign on. Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Orchestra. Jeremy David Hounsell Dammers GCOT (born 22 May 1955) is a British musician who is a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry, England, based ska revival band The Specials, The Special A.K.A. "It's a fantastic honour and it's amazing that it's remembered in South Africa. Its quite spooky walking about at night. Using just eight tracks limited Collins' recording possibilities, but as a reggae producer he decided to use the common reggae method of recording everything in mono: "As we were recording eight-track, I did go with a track plan. These were small gangs, little groups of boys who had grown up together, becoming disenfranchised together. Their records defined a slice of a generation who werent sure they wanted to be defined in the first place. He nicked as many bottles of booze as he could carry. [12] The studio, which consisted of a recording space in the cellar and a control room in the living room, was too small to accommodate all the members of the band, so rather than their normal recording method of playing all together, Collins recorded each band member playing one at a time and built up the songs track by track. They felt they had been absolved in advance. She was criticised for this outburst, but she wasnt entirely wrong. His initial music influences were 60's . The Specials & 2 Tone Records founder Jerry Dammers, who didn't take part in band's reunion, wrote, "Terrys death is very shocking, horrible and tragic news," continuing, "Terry was so young and I feel very sad. Terrible news to hear this. Jerry Dammers was born on 22 May, 1955 in Ooty, India, is a Keyboardist, songwriter, DJ. Its strange times.. Anything for cash. It was like another country. At one point a double decker bus found itself weaving into the rioters; its conductor was quickly assaulted, its driver dismissed and, having been commandeered, was then driven at speed right into the police line. But it's important to remember that I did what any decent person would do in my position. (Photo by Getty Images) Album. Thank you very much for buying this selection of represses from some of the original seven inch singles released on the 2 Tone label between 1979 and 1984. I couldnt see it, couldnt smell it, but I just knew it was coming. English Ska musician Jerry Dammers, of the group the Specials, during the Red Wedge Re-launch at Ronnie Scott's, London, 7/6/1987. He was highly intelligent, had a very mischievous sense of humour which could be very funny, and he played the drums with an incredible amount of energy which was a very important part of the Specials sound and live shows. Youth unemployment was rife as the country felt the bite of Thatchers cuts and riots were erupting all over the country, riots that appeared, with eerie synchronicity, at the same time as Ghost Town. I had already barricaded our own front door with various pieces of random furniture, although this was largely to try to appease my girlfriend, as I knew that any concerted push from the other side would have caused them to come tumbling down the corridor as the door flew open. and The Spatial AKA Orchestra. It was our version of gallows' humour, as we were no longer surprised by break-ins, muggings or harassment from the locals. There were weird, diminished chords: certain members of the band resented the song and wanted the simple chords they were used to playing on the first album. The recording of Ghost Town, which was the last time the original band were in a studio together, was so fraught and so obviously frustrating, that the guitarist Roddy Byers tried to kick a hole in the wall. I'm begging you, free Nelson Mandela. While punk was largely a cultural insurrection, repeatedly using thematic working-class imagery the brutalist modern tower block being the most obvious manifestation of this, a symbol of post-war progress that very quickly became a totem of social deprivation Ghost Town was a direct response to the urban distress that The Specials leader, Jerry Dammers, saw around him. Club owners, club runners, DJs, bands, doormen, barmen, waitresses, bouncers and obviously the drug dealers. Apr 09 2010. Your economy is destroyed and, to me, thats what Ghost Town is all about.. Often squandered, but here it has found a very safe pair of hands. Intelligent, observant and with a deadpan delivery second to none. Jerry Dammers experimented with lounge-noir on their second album, causing intra-band friction. We will try to find the right answer to this particular crossword clue. According to a man watching from his second-floor flat, the mob was relentless, like vultures tearing at his body. As we eventually moved out shipping out to Shepherds Bush, in West London so others took our place and a gentrification of sorts did occur, the kind that increasingly appealed to those who couldnt afford to get onto the housing ladder anywhere else. There were weird, diminished chords: certain members of the band resented the song and wanted the simple chords they were used to playing on the first album, Its hard to explain how powerful it sounded. The January 2016 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK featuring Paul Weller, David Bowie, Best Of 2015, Roger Waters, Father John Misty, Pere Ubu, Robert Forster, Natalie Prass, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Sunn O))), Jonny Greenwood, Arthur Lee & Love, Neil Young, Janis Joplin and more. The late summer of 1981 was a wake-up call for so many people I knew, as we had all finished college and were experiencing the inevitability of life on the dole, looking for work while juggling the day-to-day existence of a life without structure or a support network. This Sunday at the Union Buildings, the official seat of the South African government in Pretoria, he will receive one of the country's highest awards, the Order of the Companions of OR Tambo, for outstanding work benefiting the country. Begging you, begging you please. [2] Jerry Dammers attended King Henry VIII School, Coventry. [4] In response to the linking of the song to these events, singer Terry Hall said, "When we recorded 'Ghost Town', we were talking about [1980]'s riots in Bristol and Brixton. The morning after the first 1981 riot was almost as bad as the riot itself, as the mess and the devastation made you feel as though you were living in a place that was never going to improve, that was only ever going to get worse. He was in a little band in Coventry and I wanted to show. All the way to Brixton. Hand on my heart, this is what I feel is a bit sad for Jerry. The overall sense I wanted to convey was impending doom. They streamed into the four ground-floor flats and took anything they wanted that they could carry (again, audio equipment, vinyl, TVs). Tiens, d'ailleurs, Terry Hall et Jerry Dammers se sont retrouvs pour la premire fois dans une mme pice depuis quinze ans au concert de Gorillaz. Unemployment was heading for three million and it was a very worrying time., It wasnt a surprise when it went to No1 most things two-tone became hits, said Pauline Black, the lead singer of fellow 2 Tone band, The Selector. Facebook gives people the power to. Its only the most extreme people who appear to still be out there. RIP https://t.co/05ULhUjqS9, Billy Bragg (@billybragg) December 29, 2015. So the levels of anger were huge. She gives the civil servants hell, said one observer soon after she became prime minister. and The Spatial AKA Orchestra. Wrong! Jerry Dammers does not have a wife or a son. She writes these brusque, caustic notes accusing them of woolly thinking and they are absolutely terrified of her. The cabinet were terrified too, as her treatment of her colleagues was appalling. After his long musical profession, the craftsman also received the Ivor Novello Inspiration Award in 2014. "He'd say, run the checkerboard pattern right across, move this figure . The mixed racial make-up of The Specials - and most of the other bands on the 2 Tone label - was a deliberate and provocative . Musician and arranger Delia Derbyshire, who died in 2001 and musician Ray King were also honoured with plaques. I even sat through some of the tortuous recording of the 1985 album In The Studio by The Special AKA (as The Specials morphed into), containing Jerrys defining moment, the monumentally influential Free Nelson Mandela. All my condolences and sympathies go out to his wife and family., Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Go's, who co-wrote "Our Lips Are Sealed" with Hall, wrote, "Gutted to hear of the passing of #terryhall. Theyd been looting in and around the shops in Brixton market and in a second I realised I was in the middle of a full-scale riot. Fascinated by the record's sound, Dammers telephoned the song's co-writer and producer John Collins a few days later, although as Dammers first phone call was in the middle of the . In 2002 Dammers told The Guardian, "You travelled from town to town and what was happening was terrible. Founder of Two-Tone Records and core member of The Specials. One afternoon that autumn, a few months after the 1981 riots, I had walked from a squat in Peckham up to The Oval and was just about to enter the Underground when I was approached by a gang of about a dozen skinheads. The next morning, Brixton looked as though it had been turned inside out, as everything that was usually inside someones house appeared to be outside, all the household detritus that looks so pathetic and parochial when removed from its natural habitat. Racial tension was high, as the Afro-Caribbean community felt victimised. The man who wrote it wasnt there. It was sparked by the shooting of Dorothy Cherry Groce by the police, while they were looking for her son Michael Croce in relation to a suspected firearms offence. As the studio was so small, each band member recorded their part separately, adding to the sense of separateness; and when they were together, there was bickering, scowling. In an interview in 2011, Dammers explained how witnessing this event inspired his composition: The overall sense I wanted to convey was impending doom. Madness also paid tribute to Prince Buster by using the title of his single "Madness" for their name and on their first . Jerry Dammers attended King Henry VIII School, Coventry. 197952 . When we all woke, to survey the damage, most people quickly squirrelled back to their homes, appalled and embarrassed by the carnage they saw all around them and by lunchtime the streets were empty again. Founder of 2 Tone Records. House Of Common Festival Madness, Jimmy Cliff, Ziggy Marley, David Rodigan, The Kingdom Choir. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. Dammers record was an apocalyptic portrait of inner-city oppression set to a loping beat offset by an unsettling and vaguely Middle Eastern motif: Government leaving the youth on the shelf No job to be found in this country The single sounded like the fairground ride from hell, a snake charmer of a song, complete with strident brass, madhouse wailing and dub-style breaks. However, there was a tense moment towards the end of recording when Dammers decided at the last minute that he wanted to add a flute to the song, and with no free tracks available Collins was forced to record the flute directly onto the track containing the previously recorded brass section, with the possibility that any error would have rendered the entire track unusable: The guy who played the flute was a member of the band King and we recorded him in the hallway with a microphone at the top of the stairs to get the natural reverb from the stairwell. He left India at the age of 2, first living in Coventry, then moving to Sheffield at the age of 10. When Mrs Thatcher first arrived in Downing Street in 1979, there were many who thought she would become as much a prisoner of the Whitehall machine as her predecessor, Edward Heath, yet she quickly used abrasiveness to slap down the mandarins. Glasgow were particularly bad. In Liverpool he saw shops closing down, more beggars on the streets, little old ladies selling their cups and saucers on tables outside their homes and he started to see the frustration and anger in the young faces of those who came out to see his band. Jeremy David Hounsell "Jerry" Dammers (born 22 May 1955) is a British musician who is a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry, England based ska revival band The Specials, The Special A.K.A. The carpet shop always seemed to suffer, not that any of the stock was ever taken. Dick Cuthell and Rico Rodriguez had already gone back to London, and I had to record that flute by actually dropping in. It was clear that something was very, very wrong."[4]. Photograph: Jo Wiser, ANC's glory fades as South Africa's 'born free' generation votes, 'I'm more mature than South African democracy itself', Theborn free generation: 20-year-olds in South Africa prepare for first vote video, Jerry Dammers: how I made Free Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela: the triumph of the protest song. Jerry Dammers at Rock Against Racism, Leeds, in 1981. This article includes content provided by Spotify. I was blown to pieces, He was open about everything: inside a new documentary Willie Nelson & Family. For most of the 1970s, St Pauls a predominantly black and white working-class area had been the victim of deteriorating housing, poor education services and an increasingly strong police presence. "It was inspired by what we saw touring," recalls The Specials' founder and song writer Jerry Dammers . They would turn out to be temporal, but they left their mark in the same way The Clash did, or The Undertones, by connecting. The camera was probably worth two grand, while the booze probably wasnt worth more than 100 tops. Bradbury was also a member of soul group JBs Allstars and ska band, Selecter. [3], In the 1990s the song was featured in an episode of the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted. The ska legends are touring this year to celebrate their 30th anniversary without their keyboard player and main songwriter. Dud Thud. Jerry Dammers has paid tribute to John Bradbury, the drummer with The Specials, who has died aged 62. Collins wanted the song to sound more like a Sly and Robbie roots reggae track, so he brought a copy of a Sly and Robbie-produced single, "What a Feeling" by Gregory Isaacs, to the studio so that drummer John Bradbury could mimic the drum sound. [12] Tensions were high during the recording of the single, with little communication between the band members, and at one point a frustrated Roddy Byers kicked a hole in the studio door, angering Rivers. But, compelled by the inactivity around me, I took the long way, turning right instead of left, striding along Regent Street on my way down to Piccadilly Circus, where I was going to dart right, along Piccadilly itself, and stroll home via Hyde Park Corner. Although there were only 80 arrests during the first riot, more than 5,000 people were involved, a massive groundswell of anger. [Terry] Halls chirpy memories of the good old days, Rico Rodriguezs long elegiac trombone solo and that ghastly chorus of taunting wraiths. 00073107204 15 works 00073107302 17 works. Realism? 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She was, though, when she claimed that money couldnt buy either trust or racial harmony. He also founded 2 Tone Records. London, Clapham Common. Published Dec 10, 2008. The first I knew something was up was around five oclock in the afternoon, when I started to hear screaming, windows being smashed and the sound of accelerated running past the window. Here are the possible solutions for "The ____, English ska revival band founded in 1977 by Jerry Dammers" clue. Dammers recalls: "Terry was given to performing with his back to the audience. Jerry Dammers is a singer and pioneer songwriter of the Coventry, England based ska revival band The Specials or The Spatial AKA Orchestra. Their first album of new material since 1998's Guilty 'Til Proven Innocent!, the album is also significant for marking the return of the band's original vocalist, Terry Hall, who left The Specials. 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