Dammers was born in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, South India, the son of Horace Dammers who was later Dean of Bristol Cathedral from 1973 to 1987. Is it just me or is there a bit of distortion on the vocals on the "Too much pressure" side? Jerry Dammers does not have a wife or a son. The Specials ' founder Jerry Dammers has revealed to Uncut that he recorded new Specials material with original members Horace Painter and Lynval Golding in 2003. The founding member of the 1970s ska group, who will not be part of their 30th anniversary shows, released a statement claiming the band are trying to "rewrite history". These were domestic experiences, the kind that visitors to the UK just wouldnt understand. Ill get there in the end, he says. Now I was attuned to everything, including the sound of looters breaking in through the front door of our building. Up until the lockdown he had been working late most nights, regularly seeing the crazies who still stalk the streets in the early hours in these desperate times and still freaked out by the desolation. Dud Thud. First we lose Lemmy, now news that Brad from the Specials has passed away. 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. and The Spatial AKA Orchestra. Often squandered, but here it has found a very safe pair of hands. 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. As news of the attack spread, so hostilities began and the police lost control of the area for two days, during which time dozens of fires were started and shops looted, photojournalist David Hodge died a few days later, after a gang of looters he was trying to photograph attacked and beat him. Published Dec 10, 2008. This is costly for our community reputation. It would have been difficult to imagine the residents displaying the same sentiments in 1981 or indeed in 1985. The four main riots occurred in Brixton in London, Handsworth in Birmingham, Chapeltown in Leeds and Toxteth in Liverpool, although there were disturbances in at least 20 other towns and cities, including Derby, Bristol and, almost unbelievably, High Wycombe. He left India at the age of 2, first living in Coventry, then moving to Sheffield at the age of 10. During his formulative years Jerry was a mod, hippie and skinhead. Winston Silcott, Engin Raghip and Mark Braithwaite were convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, although all three were cleared by the court of appeal in 1991 after it emerged evidence had been tampered with (Silcott remained in prison for the separate murder of another man, Tony Smith, finally being released in 2003). 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. They didnt play Ghost Town, but then how could they? Police ran into our building, but by then most of the looters had run off in the direction of Railton Road and safe havens. Gentrification eventually came to Brixton, inadvertently moving it upmarket not by much, but by enough. Walk into a Brixton pub and you felt eyes upon you. Not a well-known name to many. She gives the civil servants hell, said one observer soon after she became prime minister. The kaleidoscopic Ghost Town didnt offer balm for a world-weary pop-culture; rather it was a political exhortation. Jerry Dammers at Rock Against Racism, Leeds, in 1981. They were greeted with open arms by the critics and public alike, only they werent really The Specials at all, because the most important member, Jerry Dammers, the man who invented them, who gave the band their political edge, who wrote most of their songs and who was responsible for making them truly memorable, was not encouraged to participate in the reunion (I founded The Specials and now they've excluded me, said Dammers when the band first reunited, in 2008). Jungle Music (1982) by Rico Rodriguez and The Special AKA Producer credit: Jerry Dammers. Then, a few weeks later, in Toxteth, came the predictable sequel, followed by copycat riots in Southall, Moss Side, St Pauls, Handsworth and Chapeltown, in Leeds. "What made 2-Tone different to everything else at that time was that Jerry directed all the visuals," confirms Storey. And breaking that silence wasnt just the sound of petrol bombs and broken glass, it was the sound of Ghost Town by the architects of the recent two-tone revolution, The Specials. 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. Glastonbury, Worthy Farm. And it's nothing compared to the sacrifices the people in South Africa made to fight apartheid.". After his long musical profession, the craftsman also received the Ivor Novello Inspiration Award in 2014. Sure, the band were earnest, but they were studiedly sarcastic, too, which endeared them to everyone from ageing punks to their younger siblings. "Hearing of Brad's death has been a . A little more give and take and a few more people skills, it could have definitely worked out better.. "It's a fantastic honour and it's amazing that it's remembered in South Africa. It certainly didnt feel empowering, as the sensation of being alone was intensified by being in the city. The streets werent just empty of people, they were empty of life. The ska legends are touring this year to celebrate their 30th anniversary without their keyboard player and main songwriter. Motivated by racial tension, a perception of inner city deprivation and heat, the defining factor was the ongoing war of attrition between the black community and the police. 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 night, Collins initially took it to be a joke. 5th September 2015. ", Elvis Costello, who produced The Specials' classic debut album, wrote, "Sad to receive the news of Terry Halls passing last night from Lynval Golding. Madness also paid tribute to Prince Buster by using the title of his single "Madness" for their name and on their first . However, I also thought he might turn out to be our generations John Barry, scoring important movies with solemn yet iconic orchestral themes, balancing Jacques Derrida with Francis Lai, Scott Walker with Dr John. I wanted the drums in mono on one track, the bass in mono on another and the rhythm that shuffle organ and Lynval's DI'd guitar on another. His initial music influences were 60's . Its one of the most baleful records to ever make No1. There had always been friction between Dammers and the groups singer Terry Hall, one of the most (self-proclaimed) miserable men in pop and that friction continued, obviously to the extent that they found it impossible to work together. Jerry Dammers. Why The Specials' Jerry Dammers was the Lennon and McCartney of ska, Why Swing Out Sister's Kaleidoscope World is an overlooked classic worth revisiting in 2020, Why Miles Davis' Bitches Brew is such an extraordinary record. When he was examined later Blakelock had 42 different wounds. and The Spatial AKA Orchestra. And the faster I started to walk, the slower I became. I was friends with Brad and the two of us shared a house some time before the Specials . The ska . And if you looked carefully, you would have seen that The Specials were back too, churning out the old hits as though they were a human jukebox. Ghost Town. But a wicked sense of humour. The plaque mentions "Ghost Town" was recorded there. Walking down the Lane at night you felt a little like Orpheus walking out of the underworld, too anxious to turn around and see what might be behind you. Hall has now reacted to Dammers claims, saying he was involved in initial plans for the reunion and said he has no idea why he didnt want to be part of the band. There was fighting at our gigs; there were lots of National Front people around. The car industry was closing down in Coventry. Affiliation PRS Comments Keyboardist. The Specials without Dammers were like The Doors without Jim Morrison, Queen without Freddie Mercury, or Morecambe & Wise without Morecambe or, er, Wise. He wanted to do one date, in (the bands native) Coventry, in front of 30,000 people, at the football stadium [The Ricoh Arena], added Hall. The first thing I felt was guilt, being outside when I probably should have been indoors, but as I was completely alone this was a pretty futile emotion. London, Clapham Common. He also founded 2 Tone Records. People at the time would pay good money to see bands they enjoyed in their youth, sometimes regardless of how many original members they contained. [23], In December 2021, a commemorative plaque was affixed to the house where the former Woodbine Street recording studio was located. 'Ghost Town' wasn't a free-for-all jam session. George Clinton, Funkadelic, Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Orchestra, Os Mutantes, Devendra Banhart, Bassekou Kouyate, Ngoni Ba, The Phenomenal Hand Clap Band, Brother Ali, Troy Ellis And The Longshots . There is a suggestion that his real name was Gerald Danki but this seems unsubstantiated. I spent the years between 1981 and 1987 knocking about in South London, living in various housing association flats in Brixton, Peckham, Herne Hill and The Oval. However, overdubbing the flute nearly killed me because it was not on a free track. Dammers was always a genuine bohemian and in a way it was no surprise to me the way his career panned out (DJing, production, forming various esoteric dance orchestras). The overall sense I wanted to convey was impending doom. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. The riots themselves felt contemporary and weirdly particular. The ghost town is theirs to haunt., When I think about Ghost Town I think about Coventry, said the bands drummer, John Bradbury, who grew up in the city. Real name Jeremy David Hounsell Dammers Born May 22, 1955 Country United Kingdom IPI . Uncut: the spiritual home of great rock music. He also founded 2 Tone Records. There were 45 injuries to members of the public and nearly 300 to the police; more than 5,000 rioters were involved, many of who had simply come out to fight, as they had nothing better to do and nowhere better to do it. A well-known musician, Jerry Dammers, is a founder and keyboardist who has been active in the musical world for over four decades. [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. At the time, as far as music was concerned, there was nothing quite so au courant as nostalgia. English Ska musician Jerry Dammers, of the group the Specials, during the Red Wedge Re-launch at Ronnie Scott's, London, 7/6/1987. 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. "Ghost Town" is a song by the British two-tone band the Specials, released on 12 June 1981. He was in a little band in Coventry and I wanted to show. I looked through the vast, seven-foot-wide venetian blind that faced the street and I saw dozens of local residents almost exclusively young black men running by my window carrying record players, televisions, CD players, radios, amplifiers, microwaves, small fridges, speaker systems, anything they could carry. RIP https://t.co/05ULhUjqS9, Billy Bragg (@billybragg) December 29, 2015. Television coverage of the riots painted them clearly as battles between residents and the police force, although what they really did was create even more racial tension between blacks and whites on the street, between neighbours of different ethnic backgrounds, between people who knew each other and of course those who didnt. Elected against a background of rotting refuse and unburied bodies following the Winter Of Discontent, she took her mandate for governing as a mandate for change. He left India at the age of 2, first living in Coventry, then moving to Sheffield at the age of 10. Ghost Town epitomised the two-tone idea that black and white can operate in the same unit and speak to the youth. Dick Cuthell and Rico Rodriguez had already gone back to London, and I had to record that flute by actually dropping in. The band announced the news of Bradburys death via Twitter earlier today [December 29, 2015]. Jerry stormed out a couple of times virtually in tears and I went after him, 'Calm down, calm down'. 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. The aural landscape is so vast that each member sounds disconnected from the next, says Dorian Lynskey, in his history of protest songs, 33 Revolutions Per Minute. I think he hid that a bit in his statement. His father (Horace) became Dean of Bristol Cathedral. She was, though, when she claimed that money couldnt buy either trust or racial harmony. Anything for cash. I knew the enemy was out there, just as it had been nearly 40 years ago. This was the time of Only Fools And Horses, of Minder, of Boys From The Blackstuff, of the nefarious and the naughty, the secondhand and the underhand. From 2001 to 2012, the Afro-Caribbean population of Lambeth, the borough that houses Brixton, fell by eight per cent. What had the rioters got against carpet shops? The worlds defining voice in music and pop culture: breaking whats new and whats next since 1952. 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. The 1981 riots happened just a quarter of a mile from where I lived in The Oval, while the 1985 riot happened right outside my front door. Refrigerators, dryers, you name it, said one observer. I even saw one lady hold up a piece of carpet and ask if anyone knew whether it was 6ft by 4ft.. Who is Jerry Danvers? They were slightly yobby the NME called their debut album a speed and beer-crazed ska loon but they had an underlying social conscience. There was frustration about two-tone falling apart. Jun 26 2010. 2018 Aug 31 Sep 02 2018. The shots of the band in the car were achieved by attaching a camera to the bonnet using a rubber sucker: Panter recalled that at one point the camera fell off (briefly seen in the finished video at 1:18) and scratched the car's paintwork, to the displeasure of the car's owner. Inspired by punk, they had their own grudges to articulate and they were doing it through the medium of ska. 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. 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. They would turn out to be temporal, but they left their mark in the same way The Clash did, or The Undertones, by connecting. And hes missing out on that, and its sad for him, to be honest.. Dammers was the creative genius behind The Specials, the man who gave them their idiosyncratic musical tropes and who set them apart from the likes of The Selector, The Beat or Bad Manners. Yes, there was a royal wedding, in sharp juxtaposition to inner-city decay, a wedding that would produce a genuine royal superstar, yet the riots the worst for a century would resonate throughout the country for years. And it wasnt quiet, so much as mute. Mark Beaumont praised the song and its "brooding evocation of Thatchers wasteland Britain". Jerry Dammers has paid tribute to John Bradbury, the drummer with The Specials, who has died aged 62. 00073107204 15 works 00073107302 17 works. Seventeen months separate The Specials' two No1 singles and a million musical miles, wrote Simon Price of the Independent On Sunday. And, unlike Orpheus, without looking back. [5][6][7] It was the 12th-best-selling single in the UK in 1981. Id felt like this before, intermittently, in the early summer of 1981, when, after days of rising tension and years of social deprivation, relations between the Metropolitan Police and the local community resulted in the Brixton riots. Jerry Dammers has been out of the musical limelight since the mid-1980s Of all the band feuds in all the world, the fall-out between Dammers and his ex-cohorts has to be one of the worst. Jerry Dammers: How The 'Devil's Chord' Split The Specials In an exclusive MOJO interview, the architect of 2 Tone reveals how violence at the Ghost Town sessions finished off the group. Oct 18 2019. 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. Jerry Dammers, fundador del sello 2 Tone, letra que se opone directamente al gobierno . 29th December 2015. Lord Richard Attenborough, Director of Cry Freedom, Lord Neil Kinnock and music promoter Jerry Dammers writer of song "Free Nelson Mandela". Theme From "The Boiler". 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. Its only the most extreme people who appear to still be out there. By the end of the 1980s, those pockets of gentrification that had started to pop up around Central London would become so oversubscribed that those on the bottom rungs were pushed farther and farther out, so those previously out-of-bound areas east of the city villages that promised the sort of luxurious loft-living the young bankers in Docklands had been promised a decade before. Jerry Dammers also brought along several items as a gift to the 2-Tone museum. Jerry Dammers 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. To me, Dammers was the Lennon and McCartney of ska and one of the most important voices of the post-punk generation, a man who always appeared to be carrying his generations hopes and dreams on his shoulders, as well as his own. Jerry Dammers has paid tribute to John Bradbury, the drummer with The Specials, who has died aged 62. 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. Back in 1981, walking around Electric Avenue and Atlantic Road after the first nights disturbance was nothing if not surreal. 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. . Theyre trying to kick me out of the band not at all mate, not at all., His bandmate, drummer John Bradbury explained: I spoke to Jerry night after night all through 2008, and at the end there just wasnt a meeting of the ways. No sound. He also founded 2 Tone Records. Dammers was born in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, South India, as the son of Horace Dammers, the Dean of Bristol Cathedral from 1973 to 1987. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. Dubbed Bloody Saturday by Time, the main riot took place on 11 April, and resulted in a mass confrontation between the mob and the Metropolitan Police. Voted single of the year in 1981 by NME, Melody Maker and Sounds, Ghost Town topped the UK charts for three weeks and sold more than one million copies. Read those below. Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Orchestra. All the way to Brixton. Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old? The New Rock Revolution what happened next? It even felt like a riot, or rather how a riot felt just before it kicked off, or maybe just after it, when all the dust had settled. In March 1981, Jerry Dammers heard the reggae song "At the Club" by actor and singer Victor Romero Evans played on Roundtable, the singles review show on BBC Radio 1. Jungle Music (Groove Tunnel Mix) by Urang Matang (2019) I remember Lynval rushing into the control room while they were doing it going, 'No, no, no, it sounds wrong! Free Nelson Mandela. Discover Jerry Dammers's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Like all great records about social collapse, it seems to both fear and relish calamity. Nineteen-eighty-one was a desperate year in the UK. I'm begging you, free Nelson Mandela. The genesis of the song started back in 1980, after Dammers had witnessed the St Pauls riots in Bristol. Speaking ahead of the newly . Police aggression made everyone paranoid, and made people who had previously lived quite happily side by side turn against each other because it seemed like the safest thing to do. Jerry Dammers will be given the Order of the Companions of OR Tambo, at a ceremony in Pretoria on Sunday. Thank you Jerry Dammers for bringing this to the world. are touring this year to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Yup, well they were probably back too, playing the Shepherds Bush Empire the night after Joe Jackson and probably supporting Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark or The Happy Mondays. some of the tracks have been re-eq'd /tweaked, Really really nice repro collection just a few odd errors>, Two Tone Records Vinyl Treasures 7" Boxset, Ghost Town / Why? 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. Jeffrey - Hilversum, Netherlands. At the time he was also working in a stamp shop. A notable recording artist, Jerry Dammers is a pioneer and keyboardist who has been dynamic in the melodic world for over forty years. I felt as though Id stepped out of one of those British TV science fiction programmes they made in the 1960s back in a land of bowler hats, umbrellas and red phone boxes those austere black and white ones when London had been the target of a neutron bomb, the ones that killed all the people but left the buildings intact. In Glasgow, there were these little old ladies on the streets selling all their household goods, their cups and saucers. Hes missing out on being in this incredible band. 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. and The Spatial AKA Orchestra. Dammers was born in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, South India, the son of a clergyman who went on to become Dean of Bristol . As I walked south, I may as well have been self-isolating, because I was completely, completely alone. 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. Terry Hall reacts to main songwriter's statement. 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