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The Selecter
Part of the British 2 Tone movement of late 1970s/early 1980s, The Selecter were
a multi-racial act inspired by the great Jamaican 1960s music brought over by
their parents and a new sense of DIY purpose injected by the punk movement. The
group first came together when Neol Davies produced the woozy, shuffling
instrumental track Kingston Affair with drummer John Bradbury. It was later
renamed The Selecter and used as a B-Side by fellow Coventry ska fanatics The
Specials on their hit single Gangsters, which prompted Davies to recruit a band
fronted by Pauline Black to capitalise o...
