Monday 20 March 2023

One 4 the Britz by the Yank


Good news: Joe Massot's 1981 Dance Craze documentary about the British 2 Tone Ska scene is finally getting a Blu-Ray/DVD release by the BFI on March 29th. Great news: it's also getting a big screen release at various independent cinemas across the U.K from March 22nd. You better believe Dance Craze is a documentary worth seeing at the flicks because it's 80% comprised of concert footage and those remastered live performances by The Specials, Madness, The Beat and The Selecter are gonna look/sound incredible on the big screen. Night boat to the pick n mix.


**EDIT** some background info about Dance Craze by the BFI here.

14 comments:

Spartan said...

Dance Craze has a deluxe CD/LP rerelease out this week too, blud.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Nice. You gonna try and catch it at the Southbank?

Spartan said...

Tickets for the BFI Southbank screening sold out ages ago.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Damn, that London eh?

L.A said...

Looks boss this.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

It is.

Never could have imagined that Buster Bloodvessel from Bad Manners would outlive Terry Hall and Ranking Roger.

Molloy said...

All these bank bailouts and we still lose datpiff and zippyshare within a week of each other.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Zippyshare has been blocked in England for a few years now so good riddance. Apparently Datpiff will return in some form.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Copped the DVD yesterday. Looks great and the Rudies Come Back BBC documentary makes a good extra.

Spartan said...

Tempted to cop this, but I’ve spent an obscene amount on films this month.

https://youtu.be/gV7lz6wCcfM

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

😄

Seeing it on the big screen tonight. Can't wait.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Man, that shit was sick as fook on the big screen in a (very near) packed cinema. A buncha people left as the credits started to roll, tho, which means they missed the stage invasion during the reprise of Nite Klub by The Specials.

Spartan said...

Schoolboy error leaving during the credits in a post-MCU world.

Wouldn’t mind BFI giving the same treatment with that legendary PE Hammersmith gig.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

I learned that lesson when a lad in my junior school told me Skeletor popped up out of the pit after the credits in the Masters Of The Universe movie.

You can get P.E's Hammersmith show on DVD. Cinema release would be amazing.