Founding Specials member Jerry Dammers has hit out at his bandmates’ reunion next year. Dammers, who is not touring as part of the band’s 30th anniversary shows, has issued a statement today (December ...

On the heels of the recently announced and quickly sold-out Specials reunion shows, comes a statement from founding member Jerry Dammers who refutes the rest of the band's assertion that he was ...

Jerry Dammers has launched a blistering attack on the Specials reunion and planned gigs, called them "a takeover, rather than a proper reunion" on the part of Terry Hall and his manager, Lynval ...

The Specials have not been on American soil since a grueling 6-week, coast-to-coast tour launched in January 1980 (one of the colder winter’s in U.S. history) all but broke the band up. Many U.K.

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This week on Global Notes we bring you the back story and the music of Jerry Dammers’ Spatial AKA Orchestra.The man who started the ska revival group The Specials as well as the whole 2Tone movement ...

Jerry Dammers, one of the founders of The Specials, is set to perform in Coventry It is to mark the 10th anniversary of the city's music museum The 2-Tone record label was founded in the city in the ...

COVENTRY’S Jerry Dammers remains steadfastly uninvolved with the reunion tour of The Specials, but he now has a rather more bizarre operation to consume his time. The Spatial AKA Orchestra is inspired ...

Terry Hall has claimed that The Specials keyboard player and main songwriter Jerry Dammers is missing out by not rejoining the recently-reformed group. The influential ska band reformed in 2008 and ...

The writer of the 1984 hit protest song Free Nelson Mandela has called for action in memory of the former South African president. Jerry Dammers said people should "actually listen to what he said and ...

Jerry Dammers has spoken about his leadership of the Spatial AKA Orchestra, which celebrates the work of jazz legend Sun Ra. The former Specials songwriter told Metro that he hoped to break down some ...

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