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The Specials set for shows in Belfast & Dublin

Influential, important and exhilarating live, The Specials are a Band embedded in this country's DNA. It is impossible to envisage the musical landscape without them, from the startling, angular Gangsters in 1979 to the epoch-making Ghost Town in 1981. They infused ska with punk, homegrown political anxiety with wider issues.

In February 2019, The Specials released 'Encore'. Positively received, critically and commercially, the Band spent most of the year on tour in the UK, North America and Europe. Towards the end of the year, the question arose about going back into the studio and making an album.

The Band got together for a week in February 2020, played around with some ideas and began plotting the course... around a week later both Lynval and Nikolaj came down with the flu or so they thought… hello Covid-19... on Monday March 23rd the whole country went into lockdown... bang went the plans.

2020 Became a year of waiting and hoping and being totally clueless. It was also turning into a year of locked-in paranoia and mass unrest. And then, protest... the murder of George Floyd ignited mass protests...

As it was proving impossible for the Band to work in their usual way, they decided to do an interim project, for their own sanity as much as anything else!

One idea was to look at ‘the protest song’ compiling a list from the last hundred years or so – found around 50 songs and then picked 12.  By April 2021, it was time to record and breathe as a Band again….

THE SPECIALS PROTEST SONGS 1924-2012 IS OUT NOW

THE SPECIALS PLAY LIVE AT BOTANIC GARDENS, BELFAST ON 05 JUNE FOLLOWED BY TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN ON 02 JULY 2022.

Setlists

    1. 1.Freedom Highway (The Staple Singers cover)
    2. 2.Friday Night, Saturday Morning
    3. 3.Stereotype
    4. 4.The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum) (Fun Boy Three cover)
    5. 5.Rudy a Message to You (Dandy Livingstone cover)
    6. 6.Do the Dog (Rufus Thomas cover)
    7. 7.Too Much Too Young
    8. 8.Gangsters
    9. 9.Listening Wind (Talking Heads cover)
    10. 10.Ghost Town
    1. 1.Freedom Highway (The Staple Singers cover)
    2. 2.Rat Race
    3. 3.Man at C&A
    4. 4.Friday Night, Saturday Morning
    5. 5.Do Nothing
    6. 6.Stereotype
    7. 7.International Jet Set
    8. 8.Vote for Me
    9. 9.The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum) (Fun Boy Three cover)
    10. 10.Blank Expression
    11. 11.Doesn't Make It Alright
    12. 12.Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round ([traditional] cover)
    13. 13.Rudy a Message to You (Dandy Livingstone cover)
    14. 14.Nite Klub
    15. 15.Too Much Too Young
    16. 16.Do the Dog (Rufus Thomas cover)
    17. 17.Gangsters
    18. 18.Monkey Man (Toots & The Maytals cover)

  2. Encore

    1. 19.Listening Wind (Talking Heads cover)
    2. 20.Ghost Town
    3. 21.You're Wondering Now (Andy and Joey cover)
    1. 1.Freedom Highway (The Staple Singers cover)
    2. 2.Rat Race
    3. 3.Man at C&A
    4. 4.Friday Night, Saturday Morning
    5. 5.Do Nothing
    6. 6.Stereotype
    7. 7.International Jet Set
    8. 8.Vote for Me
    9. 9.The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum) (Fun Boy Three cover)
    10. 10.Blank Expression
    11. 11.Doesn't Make It Alright
    12. 12.Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round ([traditional] cover)
    13. 13.Rudy a Message to You (Dandy Livingstone cover)
    14. 14.Nite Klub
    15. 15.Do the Dog (Rufus Thomas cover)
    16. 16.Too Much Too Young
    17. 17.Gangsters
    18. 18.Monkey Man (Toots & The Maytals cover)
    19. 19.Listening Wind (Talking Heads cover)
    20. 20.Ghost Town
    21. 21.You're Wondering Now (Andy and Joey cover)
    1. 1.Freedom Highway (The Staple Singers cover)
    2. 2.Rat Race
    3. 3.Man at C&A
    4. 4.Friday Night, Saturday Morning
    5. 5.Do Nothing
    6. 6.Stereotype
    7. 7.International Jet Set
    8. 8.Vote for Me
    9. 9.The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum) (Fun Boy Three cover)
    10. 10.Blank Expression
    11. 11.Doesn't Make It Alright
    12. 12.Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round ([traditional] cover)
    13. 13.Rudy a Message to You (Dandy Livingstone cover)
    14. 14.F**k All the Perfect People (Chip Taylor cover)
    15. 15.Too Much Too Young
    16. 16.Monkey Man (Toots & The Maytals cover)
    17. 17.Gangsters
    1. 1.Freedom Highway (The Staple Singers cover)
    2. 2.Rat Race
    3. 3.Man at C&A
    4. 4.Friday Night, Saturday Morning
    5. 5.Do Nothing
    6. 6.Stereotype
    7. 7.International Jet Set
    8. 8.Vote for Me
    9. 9.The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum) (Fun Boy Three cover)
    10. 10.Blank Expression
    11. 11.Doesn't Make It Alright
    12. 12.Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round ([traditional] cover)
    13. 13.Rudy a Message to You (Dandy Livingstone cover)
    14. 14.Nite Klub
    15. 15.Too Much Too Young
    16. 16.Gangsters
    17. 17.Monkey Man (Toots & The Maytals cover)

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The Specials will play live at

  • Botanic Gardens, Belfast on 05 June 2022
  • Trinity College, Dublin on 02 July 2022

Tickets for Live At The Botanic Gardens are on sale Friday 04 February at 9am. Tickets for Trinity College, Dublin are on sale now.

The latest album 'Protest Songs 1924-2012' is out now.