Anthem Music Presents | Post-punk & Ska
For some bands, “three chords and the truth” just wasn’t enough. Punk may have rescued the live music scene from the excesses of prog, but its limited creative vocabulary was rather suffocating for more imaginative artists.
Instead, the likes of Wire, Joy Division, Magazine, Talking Heads, Gary Numan and The Fall were among those took the visceral spirit of punk and added electronic, dub and skewed funk textures to the mix. Elsewhere, the end of the 70s also saw the emergence of the UK ska scene with bands including The Specials, The Selecter and The Beat. You’ll find the finest exponents of both post-punk and ska in this bite-sized overview of those genres. Read on for an insight into how they created a brave new world...
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