Terry Hall was always the epitome of cool. The golden voice of 2-tone’s greatest band, The Specials & many others. He’s even managed to die in the coolest way possible, hardly anybody knew he was ill,until he’d gone - that’s called going out in style! RIP
#terryhall
#thespecials
Pauline Black, lead vocalist with 2-tone band
@TheSelecter
, actress, broadcaster & author, received her OBE for services to entertainment from King Charles III, who was hosting his first Investiture since his Accession, at Windsor Castle today. 🎖️
Pauline Black received an Honorary Doctorate from the University Of Warwick this morning. She is now an Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt)
She would like to thank Helen Wheatley for her lovely presentation address & Chancellor, Baroness Catherine Ashton.
It's not often that you get asked to a wonderful lunch by a total gentleman who engages you in chat as if you've known each other for ever, but that happened today with
@AdrianEdmondson
at an interview for his podcast Out To Lunch. What a joy. He loves On My Radio too. Love him!
Many thanks to all of you who posted birthday wishes to me today. It's always lovely to know that other people are kind enough to mark my annual trip around the sun. Long life to you all too. Much love, Pauline xxx
It was our 40th Ruby Wedding Anniversary today. We’ve never celebrated one before, but thought we ought to this year. So here’s our cake & a photo from around the time we tied the knot. We forgot to take any photos of the actual wedding. Still going strong though.
“It’s wonderful to receive this honour during Coventry City’s UK City of Culture 2021 year. Coventry is responsible for making me who I am, today. It's here where I finally found my voice with the 2-tone movement. Proud to be a Coventrian" Pauline Black
Merry Christmas to all friends, fans & followers, but especially to those people behind the scenes who help The Selecter on a daily basis - you know who you are - & thank you! However you celebrate make it black & white with a dash of red.
Just a gentle reminder that a new year is like a gift, and often not given to everybody, so in the wake of so much loss in this year's musical world, even more reason to cherish the continuing time we have together.
HNY2023
Thank you so much to all those of you who wished me a happy 70th birthday yesterday.Bit of a big one, so I was delighted when Gaps Hendrickson popped in for the afternoon with a bunch of flowers and was ably rewarded for his effort with cake and coffee . Milo enjoyed the cake.
I’d just like to thank all of you who wished me a happy birthday yesterday. I had a lovely day, with much time for reflection. Hope everyone is staying safe, making the best of this difficult situation and taking care of themselves, family & friends! Stay well! Pauline xx
Today, Saturday 14th Nov 17.35 on BBC1 TV , I will be partnering with Lee Thompson(Madness) on ‘Pointless Celebrities’.
My chosen charity was ‘Action For Children’, an organisation, who once helped some very good friends of mine adopt a little boy in search of a good home.
I just wanted to say a personal thank you to all those people who wished me well over the past couple of days, none more so than friend,
@RhodaDakar
, my sister Yvonne Adenle & niece, Rhoda Adenle, who accompanied me to Windsor Castle on 16th Nov 2022.
#WOC
#representing
I hope all our worldwide Selecter fans have a great time this Christmas. The Selecter will be rocking on into 2024. First shows : 4th Jan 2024 Bristol The Fleece, 5th Jan 2024 Rockaway Beach Festival, Bognor Regis.
Nice photo of me & my best pal representing the ladies of 2-tone, at last week's BFI IMAX Dance Craze shindig. As usual, upholding the sartorially strict dress code for 2-tone functions, but with a soupçon of originality;-)
‘2 Tone The Albums 1979-1984’
is released today,Friday 4th September 2020.
Featuring ‘Too Much Pressure’ by
@TheSelecter
, 3 albums by The Specials, Dance Craze, two by the late great
#Rico
Rodriguez and the ‘This Are Two Tone’ compilation.
Attended the Royal Television Society Awards last night at the ICC in Birmingham & I’m thrilled to announce that 2Tone: The Sound of Coventry, produced by Full Fat TV won best documentary award for BBC England TV commissioning.
The Selecter is excited to be performing at Holmfirth Picturedrome today, Sat 26th Aug 2023 & tomorrow Sun 27th Aug, at Stone Valley Festival Midlands.
Gaps Hendrickson & Pauline Black having a cheeky dressing room pose last Thursday night in Stockton on Tees, on his triumphant return to the Jools Holland R& B orchestra special guest slot after a short illness. We all missed you!
Tonight Reading Hexagon!
Photo byTrevor Bailey
Our thanks to all friends and fans in 2021 who were able to get along to a show or festival and support The Selecter.
Especial thanks to all at DMF Music, who made all things possible.
In the meantime, here's wishing you Happy Holidays over the festive season. See you in 2022!
Joyous to catch up with these two amazing women over the weekend. Sharing a festival stage with other female artists still much rarer than it should be.
@paulineblackOBE
@claregrogan2
❤️💪
#legends
Fond memories of The Selecter’s appearance on the Paul O Grady show in 2015. What a funny, generous & all-round great man, who was a 2-tone fan too. Here’s a photo of us all with him & Jo Brand on that day. Photo courtesy of MichaelEccleshall.
RIP Paul O Grady
The Selecter have just won 'Best Roots Act' at the Vive Le Rock 2018 Awards tonight!! Whoohooooo! It makes all the hard work worthwhile! Thank you to all those that voted for us. And to
@ViveLeRock1
magazine for their many years of support. Much appreciated.
@TheSelecter
Join me tonight, Sunday 25th October 2020, as I host a celebration of 2 Tone records on Absolute Radio at 9pm. Interviews, music and erudite insights from Rhoda Dakar (The Bodysnatchers), Neville Staple (The Specials), Lee Thompson (Madness), Juliet Wills (Selecter's manager)
I was on BBC Breakfast this morning? You can watch again on BBC iPlayer here
I was chatting to Jon & Sally about the new album (out this Fri)touring and more!
If you haven't already you can pre-order a copy of Human Algebra here
Stage ready at the Elysee Montmartre, Paris last night on the opening night of the European leg of tour🔥
Thanks for all your support and great comments about the new album
#HumanAlgebra
It was a fantastic show in Paris & I enjoyed meeting so many of you at the merch stand.Thanks
My sister Yvonne & I in the Royal Box today on Centre Court at Day 3 of Wimbledon. Just settling down to watch Djokovic & then Emma Radacanu & hopefully Andy Murray later. Perfect day’s play & a perfect afternoon. It’s even stopped raining.
Thank you Miranda
@msmirandasawyer
I’ve been waiting over 40 years for somebody to interview me properly. I’m so pleased it was you. I enjoyed every minute of it xx
Been out all day so only just got round to tweeting this - I interviewed the great
@paulineblackOBE
and she was really interesting and unusually honest, loved her
I’ll be on BBC Woman’s Hour this morning on Radio 4, somewhere between 10 -10.45 am talking about the re-issue of a fully remastered deluxe set album Too Much Pressure on April 23rd. Tune in if you can.
Too Much Pressure 40th Anniversary Reissue in the
@officialcharts
🙌
#1
Vinyl Album
#1
Independent Album
#24
in the Official UK Album Chart
Thank you to everyone who bought a copy (then and now!)
#2Tone
#40years
The Selecter was honoured to be invited to perform in Coventry, our hometown, yesterday @ Godiva Festival 2023. Audience was immense, thank you . A few photos courtesy of Pete Chambers & Jenny Semmence
At long last a Coventry showing of Dance Craze!!!
One-off screening of the newly restored DANCE CRAZE concert film this Thursday at the Coventry Odeon. There will be an in-person Q&A with Pauline Black before the film begins.
Book your seats here:
2 Tone: Lives & Legacies exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry was given the royal seal of approval when The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall were given a tour of the show today by Curator, Martin Roberts and
@TheSelecter
lead singer, Pauline Black
Thank you to everybody at Godiva Festival in Coventry today. The show, celebrating 2-tone's 40th Anniversary, was brilliantly received by the Coventry2-tone fans & it was lovely to catch up with old friends like Roger Lomas and Lynval Golding backstage. Rhoda Dakar was superb.
Tomorrow, Thursday 17th Oct
@TheSelecter
begin their 20 date celebratory 40th Anniversary UK & Ireland Tour 2019. First show is Nottingham
@Rock_City_Notts
We are joined by special guest & DJ
@RhodaDakar
& special guest
@emily_capell
You don’t want to miss this!!
Hooray! After almost 18 months The Selecter will be performing their 1st show since March 2020 at Camp Bestival this evening Friday 30th July 2021 - onstage @ 6pm. The Selecter’s original drummer Charles ‘Aitch’ Bembridge is now on permanent drumming duty! Welcome back Aitch!
This was fun this morning. Opening up Coventry City of Culture 2021 livestreaming at Spon End with my song ‘River Rushing Flow’. Go to BBC website to watch the interview.
Very excited to be heading out with Jools Holland’s R&B Orchestra on his 30 date autumn/Winter UK tour today with two nights in Southend at the Cliffs Pavilion. I will be singing some Selecter hits & other ska favourites. Gaps will hopefully be joining us next week.
The Selecter full house at The Paradiso in Amsterdam, NL last night. We first played here in 1980, to still be filling it this many years later is a testament to the power of music
Great gig promoting our new album HUMAN ALGEBRA. Wonderful audience dancing the night away. Perfect
ALL 3 Coventry constituencies, Coventry South, Coventry North West & Coventry North East were held by
@zarahsultana
@TaiwoOwatemi
& Colleen Fletcher respectively, for Labour. A truly multicultural result! IMHO, that’s what Coventry, home of
#2tone
, is all about!
#coventry2021
Took a long time to sign all these. Enjoy! Human Algebra album out on April 21st. The Selecter tour begins at Boilershop Newcastle on April 14th, see you there!
Last night The Selecter at the The Forum, Bath on the first night of the From The Jam Tour
Tonight, we head to The Great Hall, Cardiff. See you there!
Photos by Nicky Armstrong
Pauline Black of The Selecter will be interviewed about, the 2Tone : Lives and Legacies Exhibition at The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry, this evening on BBC Radio 4's Front Row program at 19.15- 19.45
Whoooohooo! Our new album is getting a lot of love! Big thanks to MOJO for a 4 star review of our new album HUMAN ALGEBRA in the new magazine out this week! "lyrical messaging's as sharp as ever" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fancy an underground Selecter show? Well you"re in luck, we'll be performing at the Peak Cavern aka known as The Devil's Arse at this year's May bank holiday weekend. It's the largest natural cave entrance in Britain and concerts are held in the main Cavern Entrance Chamber.
What an absolute privilege and a joy for myself and Gaps Hendrickson to perform with
@Joolsband
for 2 nights running at the Royal Albert Hall. Love to all the friends & family who were there cheering us on.
Officially announced now, but here's a photo from one of the rehearsal days The Selecter has been involved with during the past week for the Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony. A bit Reservoir Dogs;-)- enjoy our performance tonight. Representing Coventry City of Culture
Our new dog, Milo! He’s busy making himself at home on the sofa. Milo is a Basenji cross, originally rescued in Cyprus by underdog international,but has been fostered for the last few months by a lovely couple in Chester. He’s now in his forever home!
#AdoptDontShop
#Underdog_int
#worldbook
day2020 A book to read for the ska/2-tone fan while in quarantine - Pauline Black's 2-tone memoir 'Black By Design'
#theselecter
- get your copy from
@TheSelecter
merchandise shop on the link below
What a nice start to 2024, a SOLD OUT gig in Bristol tomorrow 4th Jan. A great place to do a warm up show ahead of our headline gig at Rockaway Beach festival on Friday 5th Jan. Whole band back on stage for a 90 minute New Year treat. it's been a while.....
I will be appearing on Channel 5 News around 18.50 tonight extolling the virtues of 2-tone: Lives & Legacies upcoming exhibition in May at Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, as part of the Coventry City Of Culture 2021 celebrations.
Playing The Roundhouse in 2017 on our 2-Tone co-headline tour with The Beat feat Ranking Roger will always be among our stand-out memories. Both our performances from that night are being streamed in full this FRIDAY 03 JULY FROM 8PM Subscribe to:
Photo taken in June 2015 - David Burbidge and myself in a Coventry underpass at the beginning of the journey to make Coventry the UK City Of Culture in 2021- and tonight Coventry won
Out today canvassing on the door-step with Coventry Labour South candidate
@zarahsultana
& the rest of the team. Very cold and wet, but a great response from many people we talked to.
#VoteLabour12December
#VoteLabour
What a great Selecter show at last Saturday's Muckyweekender Festival. Brilliant audience & so many lovely people. A wonderful end to The Selecter's festival season. Here's a few photos from onstage and with friends. Photos courtesy of Jules Annan.
I would sincerely like to thank
@LeedsMusic
for my Fellowship Award from Leeds College Of Music today- a big thank you to everyone associated with this wonderful conservatoire. Congrats too to
@MichaelDugher
on his well-deserved Fellowship today 🎶
And The Selecter good news keeps on coming -
Very excited to announce we will be supporting the magnificent BLUR
@blurofficial
on their second night at Wembley Stadium on Sunday 09 July 2023
Many thanks to the wonderful
@steve_lamacq
& his team for inviting me on to tonight’s show for a 40 year trip down the 2-tone memory lane. It was a lot of fun.
Pauline Black having fun at London O2 Indigo last night with The Selecter!
She’s off to the MOBO awards tonight at CBS Arena in Coventry, in support of Coventry UK City Of Culture 2021 - the ceremony wlill be streaming live on YouTube this evening!