Two Tone at Home - (Spoken Word Poetry) The Poet Beanz

For someone like me, growing up and starting to buy records in the late 1970s and early 1980s, it is impossible to overstate the importance of the Two Tone Ska Revival here in the UK. The cultural, political and social impact was matched by a personal affinity to a music that felt like our own.

It did not condescend or preach to you. It had that sense of mischief of being on the edge. Even as a preteen, it could make you dance, smile and feel the kinship and solidarity that belonging to your own tribe brings you.

Nearly half a century later.

That has never gone away.

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