The Specials
The Specials are hitting the road again in 2021 and stop off at the Usher Hall on Tuesday 7th September!
About The Specials
***Tickets on sale Friday 11th September 2020 at 10am***
Following the release of their eighth studio album Encore last year to critical acclaim, the band comprised of Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Horace Panter, are hitting the road again. Influential, important and exhilarating live, they 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 their swan song, the epoch-making Ghost Town in 1981. They infused ska with punk, homegrown political anxiety with wider issues.
One not to be missed!!
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