The Selecter
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The Selecter are a 2 Tone
ska
revival band from Coventry
, England, formed in mid 1979.
Like many other bands in the ska revival movement, The Selecter featured a racially diverse line-up. Their lyrics featured themes connected to politics
and marijuana
, set to strong melodies and a danceable beat. What set The Selecter apart from the other 2 Tone bands at the time, were the songs of Neol Davies, the voice and unique rude-girl style of Pauline Black
and the pumping rhythms of Desmond Brown on the Hammond organ
. The band's name is based on the term "selector", which is a Jamaican word for disc jockey
. The band were one of the most successful ska bands of the 2 Tone era, notching up a handful of hit singles in the British charts.
The Selecter reformed in 1991 and vocalist, Pauline Black, continued to perform and release music under The Selecter name until 2006. Some confusion emerged over two competing lineups for the Selecter in 2011, between that featuring Neol Davies and that featuring Pauline Black and Arthur 'Gaps' Hendrickson, In June 2011 Pauline Black applied for the trademark to The Selecter and has since secured it.
(who later became a member of The Specials
) with the trombone player Barry Jones, recorded a track in a recording session in 1977/8 that resulted in "Kingston Affair". The band name also became the new title, The Selecter, of the debut instrumental
single, released as one side of the double A sided first 2 Tone Records
single, "Gangsters vs.The Selecter", released in March 1979, getting to 6 in the national chart. The track was originally written as a possible theme tune to an ITV
series. Neol Davies was solo as The Selecter at the time of the single being released but wanted a band with long time friends Desmond Brown and Charley Anderson. The line-up for the original band was completed when Pauline Black was spotted by Neol Davies. Davies offered Pauline an audition with The Selecter — she joined along with 3 other members in July 1979, and the new resultant band released the singles "On My Radio", "Three Minute Hero" and "Missing Words", written by Neol Davies. The Selecter's debut album,Too Much Pressure
, was recorded at the end of 1979 and beginning of the new year, and was released in February 1980 by 2 Tone Records and Chrysalis Records
. Charley Anderson and Desmond Brown then left The Selecter later that year to form The People. Their replacements were James Mackie and Adam Williams. Their second album, Celebrate the Bullet
was issued in February 1981, then Pauline Black left the band to pursue a solo career. A short time after, unsuccessfully having tried Stan Campbell as the singer, the rest of the members disbanded. The Selecter were featured in the 2 Tone film documentary and on the live compilation album, Dance Craze
.
The first actual band called 'The Selecter' came to an end and the members moved all over the world and on to their own careers in music, film and tv as well as book writing.
in 2006. From 1991, Pauline Black led a reformed Selecter for 15 years releasing several new albums. In 2006 she decided to take a sabbatical from The Selecter, in order to write her memoirs 'Black By Design' for publishing house, Serpent's Tail. In 2009, she returned to the live arena, playing shows in the UK, Germany and South America guesting with various ska musicians and performing songs from The Selecter's first two albums. Her memoirs, 'Black By Design', is now finished and during June 2010 she signed a book deal with her publisher. Her book will be published on 4 August 2011, and apart from giving a unique woman's view of the 2-Tone movement, she discusses her own ideas about what it meant growing up as a mixed race woman in 50's Britain. During her sabbatical, Pauline Black also took time out to record a new 13 track solo album, 'Pigment Of My Imagination', which will be released in spring 2011. She recently reformed a version of The Selecter, this time with guest original lead singer, Arthur "Gaps" Hendricskon, and in summer 2010 and they played two high profile shows at the Sinner's Day Festival at The Ethias Arena in Hasselt, Belgium, and at the Bloomsbury Ballroom in London.
Neol Davies penned most of The Selecter's hit singles. He started up his own home studio after the band disbanded in 1981 to write and record his own new songs, and he played a number of local shows in the Midlands. Neol formed a new version of The Selecter with Pauline Black in 1991, but he left the band two years later. He started up a new outfit called Selecter Instrumental, mostly playing movie tunes in a ska style. In 1999, he released his 'Box of Blues' album, assisted with Horace Panter
and Anthony Harty, and the trio often performed at a number of Blues
concerts in the UK. He later recorded another album, 'Future Swamp', with guests including Ronnie Wood and Reef
members Dominic Greensmith and Jason Knight. Both albums were released on Neol's own label, VoMatic Records. Neol Davies also currently performs and records as The Selecter, with his own ten piece band including a new male vocalist, John Gibbons, who has worked with Luther Vandross
and Boy George
.
Charley Anderson moved to Sweden during the 1990s where he performed, recorded and released material with The Skalatones. In 2009, Anderson returned to Coventry to play a charity concert at the Central Hall to promote his Ghetto Child project. Joining him on stage were guests from UB40, The Specials, The Selecter along with Caroline Tambu Masvongo, Miss Muffin and saxophonists Hugh Lawrence and Carlos Garnett
.
Charley 'H' Bembridge is currently involved with The All Skas, a ska band who often perform shows in the Midlands. He is also a member of a tribute band called UB42.
Neol Davies, Gaps Hendrickson , Charley Anderson and Pauline Black have also been involved with unveiling commemorative plaques for the 30th anniversary of 2 Tone on significant buildings associated with the record label in Coventry in 2009.
After leaving the Selecter, some members joined the Hertfordshire group Soul Fish.
in 1997 in the USA. Pauline Black continued to record and perform as The Selecter up until 2006.
On October 31, 2010 Pauline Black and Arthur “Gaps” Hendrickson played under The Selecter name to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the seminal debut album, ‘Too Much Pressure’, by performing the whole album live at the “Sinners Day Festival”, Ethias Stadium, Hasselt, Belgium. They also performed at The Bloomsbury Ballroom, London, in November 2010.
In her capacity as lead singer of The Selecter, Pauline Black featured prominently in BBC4's "Reggae Britannia" series in Feb 2011 and the televised "Reggae Britannia Concert" @ The Barbican, London, alongside reggae luminaries Ken Boothe, Neville Staple and Brinsley Forde of Aswad.
In 2011, The Selecter featuring Pauline Black & Arthur "Gaps" Hendrickson, the original lead singers of the band, will continue to tour the UK and Europe and release a new album, Made In Britain, in Autumn 2011.
Neol Davies a.k.a The Selecter made a return in January 2011 with a brand new band and a new album which features revamped versions of his classic songs ( Too Much Pressure, On My Radio , Celebrate The Bullet & Missing Words.
Anderson and Brown left The Selecter in 1980. They were replaced by James Mackie on Hammond and Adam Williams on bass guitar.
2 Tone
2 Tone is a music genre created in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s by fusing elements of ska, punk rock, rocksteady, reggae, and New Wave. It was called 2 Tone because most of the bands were signed to 2 Tone Records at some point. Other labels associated with the 2 Tone sound were Stiff...
ska
Ska
Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
revival band from Coventry
Coventry
Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although...
, England, formed in mid 1979.
Like many other bands in the ska revival movement, The Selecter featured a racially diverse line-up. Their lyrics featured themes connected to politics
Politics
Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...
and marijuana
Cannabis (drug)
Cannabis, also known as marijuana among many other names, refers to any number of preparations of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug or for medicinal purposes. The English term marijuana comes from the Mexican Spanish word marihuana...
, set to strong melodies and a danceable beat. What set The Selecter apart from the other 2 Tone bands at the time, were the songs of Neol Davies, the voice and unique rude-girl style of Pauline Black
Pauline Black
Pauline Black in Romford is a British singer, actress and author most notable as the lead singer of The Selecter. Black was born to an Anglo-Jewish mother and Nigerian father. She was adopted by a white middle-aged couple and given the name Pauline Vickers...
and the pumping rhythms of Desmond Brown on the Hammond organ
Hammond organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...
. The band's name is based on the term "selector", which is a Jamaican word for disc jockey
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
. The band were one of the most successful ska bands of the 2 Tone era, notching up a handful of hit singles in the British charts.
The Selecter reformed in 1991 and vocalist, Pauline Black, continued to perform and release music under The Selecter name until 2006. Some confusion emerged over two competing lineups for the Selecter in 2011, between that featuring Neol Davies and that featuring Pauline Black and Arthur 'Gaps' Hendrickson, In June 2011 Pauline Black applied for the trademark to The Selecter and has since secured it.
History
In 1977, Neol Davies and John BradburyJohn Bradbury (drummer)
John Bradbury is the drummer with The Specials. They had a #1 UK hit with 'Ghost Town'.He joined The Special AKA when the original Specials split in 1981; they had a Top 10 hit with 'Nelson Mandela'. He and Noel Davies recorded "The Selecter", the 'b'side to "Gangsters", before the latter had...
(who later became a member of The Specials
The Specials
The Specials are an English 2 Tone ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry, England. Their music combines a "danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk's energy and attitude", and had a "more focused and informed political and social stance" than other ska groups...
) with the trombone player Barry Jones, recorded a track in a recording session in 1977/8 that resulted in "Kingston Affair". The band name also became the new title, The Selecter, of the debut instrumental
Instrumental
An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments....
single, released as one side of the double A sided first 2 Tone Records
2 Tone Records
2 Tone Records was an English record label that mostly released ska and reggae-influenced music with a punk rock and pop music overtone.-History:...
single, "Gangsters vs.The Selecter", released in March 1979, getting to 6 in the national chart. The track was originally written as a possible theme tune to an ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
series. Neol Davies was solo as The Selecter at the time of the single being released but wanted a band with long time friends Desmond Brown and Charley Anderson. The line-up for the original band was completed when Pauline Black was spotted by Neol Davies. Davies offered Pauline an audition with The Selecter — she joined along with 3 other members in July 1979, and the new resultant band released the singles "On My Radio", "Three Minute Hero" and "Missing Words", written by Neol Davies. The Selecter's debut album,Too Much Pressure
Too Much Pressure (album)
Too Much Pressure was the first album by British ska band The Selecter. It was released in 1980 on 2 Tone records. The album charted at # 5 in the United Kingdom.The title track "Too Much Pressure" was featured in the film The Abyss.-Side one:...
, was recorded at the end of 1979 and beginning of the new year, and was released in February 1980 by 2 Tone Records and Chrysalis Records
Chrysalis Records
Chrysalis Records was a British record label that was created in 1969. The name was both a reference to the pupal stage of a butterfly and a combination of its founders names, Chris Wright and Terry Ellis...
. Charley Anderson and Desmond Brown then left The Selecter later that year to form The People. Their replacements were James Mackie and Adam Williams. Their second album, Celebrate the Bullet
Celebrate the Bullet (album)
Celebrate the Bullet is the second album by British ska band The Selecter. It was released in 1981 on Chrysalis Records after the band had left the Two Tone label. It features the hit single The Whisper plus the rare 45 "Celebrate The Bullet" and a version of The Ethiopians "Train To Skaville"....
was issued in February 1981, then Pauline Black left the band to pursue a solo career. A short time after, unsuccessfully having tried Stan Campbell as the singer, the rest of the members disbanded. The Selecter were featured in the 2 Tone film documentary and on the live compilation album, Dance Craze
Dance Craze
Dance Craze is a 1981 British documentary film about the English 2 Tone music genre.The film was directed by Joe Massot, who originally wanted to do a film only about the band Madness, who he met during their first US tour. Massot later changed his plans to include the whole 2 Tone movement...
.
The first actual band called 'The Selecter' came to an end and the members moved all over the world and on to their own careers in music, film and tv as well as book writing.
Post breakup years
After the band split in 1982, Pauline Black pursued a career in theatre, TV and Film, even winning awards, most notably the Time Out for London Award for her portrayal of jazz singer Billie Holiday at the Tricycle Theatre in London and the Manchester Evening Standard Award for her performance in 'From The Mississippi Delta' at The Contact Theatre in Manchester. She also featured in many British TV acting roles, most notably as Diane Valentine in HollyoaksHollyoaks
Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...
in 2006. From 1991, Pauline Black led a reformed Selecter for 15 years releasing several new albums. In 2006 she decided to take a sabbatical from The Selecter, in order to write her memoirs 'Black By Design' for publishing house, Serpent's Tail. In 2009, she returned to the live arena, playing shows in the UK, Germany and South America guesting with various ska musicians and performing songs from The Selecter's first two albums. Her memoirs, 'Black By Design', is now finished and during June 2010 she signed a book deal with her publisher. Her book will be published on 4 August 2011, and apart from giving a unique woman's view of the 2-Tone movement, she discusses her own ideas about what it meant growing up as a mixed race woman in 50's Britain. During her sabbatical, Pauline Black also took time out to record a new 13 track solo album, 'Pigment Of My Imagination', which will be released in spring 2011. She recently reformed a version of The Selecter, this time with guest original lead singer, Arthur "Gaps" Hendricskon, and in summer 2010 and they played two high profile shows at the Sinner's Day Festival at The Ethias Arena in Hasselt, Belgium, and at the Bloomsbury Ballroom in London.
Neol Davies penned most of The Selecter's hit singles. He started up his own home studio after the band disbanded in 1981 to write and record his own new songs, and he played a number of local shows in the Midlands. Neol formed a new version of The Selecter with Pauline Black in 1991, but he left the band two years later. He started up a new outfit called Selecter Instrumental, mostly playing movie tunes in a ska style. In 1999, he released his 'Box of Blues' album, assisted with Horace Panter
Horace Panter
Horace Panter also known as Sir Horace Gentleman, is the bassist for the Coventry 2 Tone, ska revival band The Specials....
and Anthony Harty, and the trio often performed at a number of Blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
concerts in the UK. He later recorded another album, 'Future Swamp', with guests including Ronnie Wood and Reef
Reef
In nautical terminology, a reef is a rock, sandbar, or other feature lying beneath the surface of the water ....
members Dominic Greensmith and Jason Knight. Both albums were released on Neol's own label, VoMatic Records. Neol Davies also currently performs and records as The Selecter, with his own ten piece band including a new male vocalist, John Gibbons, who has worked with Luther Vandross
Luther Vandross
Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times...
and Boy George
Boy George
Boy George is a British singer-songwriter who was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the early 1980s. He helped give androgyny an international stage with the success of Culture Club during the 1980s. His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, which is influenced by...
.
Charley Anderson moved to Sweden during the 1990s where he performed, recorded and released material with The Skalatones. In 2009, Anderson returned to Coventry to play a charity concert at the Central Hall to promote his Ghetto Child project. Joining him on stage were guests from UB40, The Specials, The Selecter along with Caroline Tambu Masvongo, Miss Muffin and saxophonists Hugh Lawrence and Carlos Garnett
Carlos Garnett
Carlos Garnett is a Panamanian-American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and jazz group leader.Garnett was born on December 1, 1938, in Red Tank, Panama Canal Zone. He became interested in jazz music after hearing Louis Jordan's and James Moody's music in film shorts...
.
Charley 'H' Bembridge is currently involved with The All Skas, a ska band who often perform shows in the Midlands. He is also a member of a tribute band called UB42.
Neol Davies, Gaps Hendrickson , Charley Anderson and Pauline Black have also been involved with unveiling commemorative plaques for the 30th anniversary of 2 Tone on significant buildings associated with the record label in Coventry in 2009.
After leaving the Selecter, some members joined the Hertfordshire group Soul Fish.
Reunions
Black and Davies reformed The Selecter in 1991, but Neol Davies left the new line-up after a year. Post 1993, another original member, Arthur 'Gaps' Hendrickson, performed with this line-up occasionally. They released several new albums, toured around the world and even toured with No DoubtNo Doubt
No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California that formed in 1986. The ska-pop sound of their first album No Doubt , failed to make an impact...
in 1997 in the USA. Pauline Black continued to record and perform as The Selecter up until 2006.
On October 31, 2010 Pauline Black and Arthur “Gaps” Hendrickson played under The Selecter name to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the seminal debut album, ‘Too Much Pressure’, by performing the whole album live at the “Sinners Day Festival”, Ethias Stadium, Hasselt, Belgium. They also performed at The Bloomsbury Ballroom, London, in November 2010.
In her capacity as lead singer of The Selecter, Pauline Black featured prominently in BBC4's "Reggae Britannia" series in Feb 2011 and the televised "Reggae Britannia Concert" @ The Barbican, London, alongside reggae luminaries Ken Boothe, Neville Staple and Brinsley Forde of Aswad.
In 2011, The Selecter featuring Pauline Black & Arthur "Gaps" Hendrickson, the original lead singers of the band, will continue to tour the UK and Europe and release a new album, Made In Britain, in Autumn 2011.
Neol Davies a.k.a The Selecter made a return in January 2011 with a brand new band and a new album which features revamped versions of his classic songs ( Too Much Pressure, On My Radio , Celebrate The Bullet & Missing Words.
Albums
- Too Much PressureToo Much Pressure (album)Too Much Pressure was the first album by British ska band The Selecter. It was released in 1980 on 2 Tone records. The album charted at # 5 in the United Kingdom.The title track "Too Much Pressure" was featured in the film The Abyss.-Side one:...
(February 1980) UKUK Albums ChartThe UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
# 5 UKBritish Phonographic IndustryThe British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies...
: Gold - Celebrate the BulletCelebrate the Bullet (album)Celebrate the Bullet is the second album by British ska band The Selecter. It was released in 1981 on Chrysalis Records after the band had left the Two Tone label. It features the hit single The Whisper plus the rare 45 "Celebrate The Bullet" and a version of The Ethiopians "Train To Skaville"....
(February 1981) UK # 41 - The Happy Album (July 1994)
- Pucker ! (August 1995)
- Cruel Britannia (November 1998)
- The Trojan Songbook (1999)
- The Trojan Songbook - Vol 2 (2000)
- The Trojan Songbook - Vol 3 (2001)
- Real to Reel (2003)
- Made In Britain (2011)
Singles and EPs
- "Gangsters vs. The Selecter" (July 1979, 2 Tone, TT1/TT2) UKUK Singles ChartThe UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
# 6 - "On My Radio" (October 1979, CHSTT 4) UK # 8
- "Three Minute Hero" (February 1980, CHSTT 8) UK # 16
- "Missing Words" (March 1980, CHSTT 10) UK # 23
- "The Whisper" (August 1980, CHSS 1) UK # 36
- "Celebrate The Bullet" (November 1980, CHSS 2)
- "On My Radio 91" (1991)
- "Madness" EP (The Selecter featuring Prince BusterPrince BusterCecil Bustamente Campbell, O.D. , better known as Prince Buster, and also known by his Muslim name Muhammed Yusef Ali, is a musician from Kingston, Jamaica. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of ska and rocksteady music...
& RicoRico RodriguezRico Rodriguez MBE , also known as Reco or El Reco, is a ska and reggae trombonist. He has recorded with many producers, including Karl Pitterson, Prince Buster, and Lloyd 'Matador' Daley...
) (1992) - "Hairspray" EP (1995)
- "Big In The Body, Small In The Mind" (May 2011, Download Only)
- "Back To Black" (July 2011, Download Only)
Original line-up
- Neol Davies : rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
- Pauline Black : vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
- Arthur 'Gaps' Hendrickson : vocals
- Charley Anderson: bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Compton Amanor : lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
- Charley 'H' Bembridge: drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
- Desmond Brown: HammondHammond organThe Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...
keyboardKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
Anderson and Brown left The Selecter in 1980. They were replaced by James Mackie on Hammond and Adam Williams on bass guitar.
Reformed line-up: 1991
- Pauline Black: vocals
- Neol Davies: guitar
- Arthur 'Gaps' Hendrickson - vocals
- Martin Stewart: keyboards
- Nicky Welsh : bass
- Perry Melius : drums
Pauline Black's 2011 line-up
- Pauline Black : vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
- Arthur “Gaps” Hendrickson : vocals
- Winston Marche: drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
- Anthony Harty : guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
- John Thompson : bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Greg Coulson : keyboardKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
- Neil Pyzer & Orlando LaRose : Horns
Neol Davies a.k.a The Selecter 2011
- Neol Davies - Lead Vocals & Guitar
- John Gibbons - Lead Vocals
- Daniel Crosby - Drums
- Dean Ross - Hammond Organ
- Andre Bayuni - Bass
- Tim Cansfield - Guitar
- Victor Travino - Percussion
- The Selecter Horns - Ellie Smith, Hannah Taylor, Emma Bassett