The Specials news

The Mostly Jazz Folk and Soul Festival has become one of the biggest events in the Midland festival calendar and rightly so. The setting in Moseley Park is perfect. This picturesque bit of luscious ...

Relatives of those who died in the Stardust fire are attempting to arrange a meeting with British ska band The Specials, who performed at the Artane venue just one month before the 1981 tragedy. T ...

Relatives of those who died in the Stardust fire are attempting to arrange a meeting with British ska band The Specials, who performed at the Artane venue just one month before the 1981 tragedy.

Line-up is announced for summer festival at Hardwick Hall Hotel and also includes the likes of Jake Bugg, Becky Hill and The Proclaimers ...

The UK Two-Tone Ska legend Neville Staple, who pioneered the Los Angeles Two-Tone/Ska movement, celebrates his origins on a brilliant and energetic new studio album, From The Specials & Beyond! Not ...

The Specials’ new album may be called Protest Songs 1924-2012 but founding member Horace Panter is definitely not protesting his own predicament. ‘If you had told me back in 1979 that I would be an ...

The Specials’ new album may be called Protest Songs 1924-2012 but founding member Horace Panter is definitely not protesting his own predicament. ‘If you had told me back in 1979 that I would be an ...

AS lockdown kicked in, The Specials’ Terry Hall found himself “looking at the internet . . . a lot”. He noticed that Instagram and TikTok were “flourishing” as ­people posted pictures of “their ...

Horace Panter of The Specials takes us inside the band’s new covers album, Protest Songs 1924-2012, and gives a track-by-track breakdown.

Front man Terry Hall may look like he wants his slippers but the band's taut songs about a society out of joint feel bang up to date ...

The Specials, 2021. Credit: Press. The Specials have announced a new album of covers, sharing versions of 12 protest songs from 1924-2012. ‘Protest Songs – 1924-2012’ will come out on ...