Young, Gifted and Black: A 2 Tone Story

Here’s an interesting concept for what I can only assume to be an upcoming documentary:  The untold story of three young black musicians that helped shape the 2 Tone movement, and in turn, music in England.  Check it:

NEVILLE STAPLE – Out of borstal. Directionless. Hanging out with his rude boy mates Trevor and Rex. His one talent is “toasting” on the microphone: “The place that I come from it is a Ghost Town… somewhere in England they call Coventry”

ERROL CHRISTIE – Boxing since he was eight years old – desperate to go professional. A young man capable of defending himself but with a code of honour. Never hit a man when he’s down. “My fists are my weapons”

PAULINE BLACK – Educated, bright, mixed race. Burning to succeed. Through her music, she will reach out to Coventry’s racist skinheads: “Half Jewish. Half Nigerian. So what’s the National Front going to do? Send half of me back to Africa & the rest to Israel?”

Britain’s missing black generation. The children of the post-war Windrush immigrants. Their fight created today’s multicultural Britain. But they had to fight hard.

Their story has been under wraps – until now.

The project is called Ghost Town: We Are The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For.  You can find out more at the EMUFilms Website

1 Comment

  1. Sultan Says:

    Greetings Ska Blah Blah,
    Iam Sultan, son of Ska Originator Prince Buster..

    See video-clip >www.tinyurl.com/cwa83a
    Thanks.



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