Jeremy David Hounsell "Jerry" Dammers (born 22 May 1955) is a British musician who is a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry, England based ska revival band The Specials, The Special A.K.A. Internal tensions within the band were also coming to a head when the single was being recorded, resulting in the song being the last single recorded by the original seven members of the group before splitting up. ", Elvis Costello, who produced The Specials' classic debut album, wrote, "Sad to receive the news of Terry Halls passing last night from Lynval Golding. He also founded 2 Tone Records. 'Ghost Town' wasn't a free-for-all jam session. He is famous for founding 2 Tone Records and having his masterful skills on turntables and keyboards. It was this tense environment that produced the extraordinary sound of Ghost Town. Anything for cash. They would turn out to be temporal, but they left their mark in the same way The Clash did, or The Undertones, by connecting. For a short while, I felt as though I could have been the last person in the capital, the last person alive, last man standing. Cryptic, droll, a heart of gold, and he could tackle like a donkey! And it's nothing compared to the sacrifices the people in South Africa made to fight apartheid.". He also founded 2 Tone Records. People at the time would pay good money to see bands they enjoyed in their youth, sometimes regardless of how many original members they contained. The Specials are due to play a series of 30th anniversary gigs in the spring of 2009, with the tour being billed as a full reunion. He also founded 2 Tone Records. And I was thinking why doesn't anyone produce something equally as strong for Assange today? The ghost town is theirs to haunt., When I think about Ghost Town I think about Coventry, said the bands drummer, John Bradbury, who grew up in the city. I was aware that things were deteriorating. Jerry stormed out a couple of times virtually in tears and I went after him, 'Calm down, calm down'. Speaking ahead of the newly . I said he was very funny and they looked at me like I hadnt heard the question. Their first album of new material since 1998's Guilty 'Til Proven Innocent!, the album is also significant for marking the return of the band's original vocalist, Terry Hall, who left The Specials. They thought Groce was hiding in his mothers home, raided it and accidentally shot Mrs Groce, paralysing her from the waist down. . For most of the 1970s, St Pauls a predominantly black and white working-class area had been the victim of deteriorating housing, poor education services and an increasingly strong police presence. 5th September 2015. Jerry Dammers will be playing a DJ set from his unrivalled collection of library music records,later in the night will be showcasing a new composition recorded by Jerry accompanying the paintings of Turner Prize-nominated Coventry artist George Shaw. Dammers recalls: "Terry was given to performing with his back to the audience. My condolences to his family and friends. Wicked meaning evil, bruv. Elected against a background of rotting refuse and unburied bodies following the Winter Of Discontent, she took her mandate for governing as a mandate for change. It was easier for her to stand back, aghast. The look, which Dammers described as "defiant, Jamaican and hard", infiltrated all 2-Tone artwork, from sleeves to posters, T-shirts to badges. Terry Hall of The Specials and Fun Boy Three died on Sunday, December 18 but the news didn't break till late Monday afternoon. 10th December 2008. Refrigerators, dryers, you name it, said one observer. I even saw one lady hold up a piece of carpet and ask if anyone knew whether it was 6ft by 4ft.. George Clinton, Funkadelic, Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Orchestra, Os Mutantes, Devendra Banhart, Bassekou Kouyate, Ngoni Ba, The Phenomenal Hand Clap Band, Brother Ali, Troy Ellis And The Longshots . The video's locations include driving through the Rotherhithe Tunnel and around semi-derelict areas of the East End as well as in Lothbury and Throgmorton Street in the financial district of the City of London in the early hours of daylight on Sunday morning, where the streets were deserted as it was the weekend. One afternoon that autumn, a few months after the 1981 riots, I had walked from a squat in Peckham up to The Oval and was just about to enter the Underground when I was approached by a gang of about a dozen skinheads. The next morning, Brixton looked as though it had been turned inside out, as everything that was usually inside someones house appeared to be outside, all the household detritus that looks so pathetic and parochial when removed from its natural habitat. Walking down the Lane at night you felt a little like Orpheus walking out of the underworld, too anxious to turn around and see what might be behind you. The keyboard player wrote to The Guardian to dispute comments from singer Terry Hall regarding the band's upcoming reunion shows. Bristol Beacon. Published Dec 10, 2008. Many consider The Specials' Ghost Town, with its depiction of poverty and injustice in Thatcher's Britain, the song of the 1980s. Jeremy David Hounsell "Jerry" Dammers, (born 22 May 1955) is a British musician who is a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry, England based ska revival band The Specials, The Special A.K.A. DJing, drumming in bands who were never going to get signed, running a Sunday market stall in Camden Lock having spent the early hours buying up bric-a-brac in Brick Lane. My thoughts are with all his family.. It was sparked by the shooting of Dorothy Cherry Groce by the police, while they were looking for her son Michael Croce in relation to a suspected firearms offence. Jerry Dammers is in the middle or thereabouts of recording a new album, down in his studio in South London. The mixed racial make-up of The Specials - and most of the other bands on the 2 Tone label - was a deliberate and provocative . A little more give and take and a few more people skills, it could have definitely worked out better.. This was urban decay writ large, accompanied by a kick drum and a muted horn. Now I was attuned to everything, including the sound of looters breaking in through the front door of our building. The aural landscape is so vast that each member sounds disconnected from the next, says Dorian Lynskey, in his history of protest songs, 33 Revolutions Per Minute. Hes missing out on being in this incredible band. Affiliation PRS Comments Keyboardist. It's hard to explain how powerful it sounded. The January 2016 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK featuring Paul Weller, David Bowie, Best Of 2015, Roger Waters, Father John Misty, Pere Ubu, Robert Forster, Natalie Prass, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Sunn O))), Jonny Greenwood, Arthur Lee & Love, Neil Young, Janis Joplin and more. He left India at the age of 2, first living in Coventry, then moving to Sheffield at the age of 10. Mark Beaumont praised the song and its "brooding evocation of Thatchers wasteland Britain". She gives the civil servants hell, said one observer soon after she became prime minister. Ils se sont mme parls ! We were touring, so we saw a lot of it. And so you started treating the place with the same disdain; what was the point of throwing an empty cigarette packet in a bin if the bin was going to be thrown through the off-licence window later in the day? That summed it up for me. ", Fellow 2 Tone band Madness wrote, "A terrible loss to all of us, way too young," while The English Beat's Dave Wakeling wrote, "Sad to hear that Terry will not be joining us for another season. Brads drumming was the powerhouse behind the Specials, and it was seen as a key part to the 2 Tone sound. The record does not so much end as lose the will to go on, sinking back into the fog. Dubbed Bloody Saturday by Time, the main riot took place on 11 April, and resulted in a mass confrontation between the mob and the Metropolitan Police. Jungle Music (Groove Tunnel Mix) by Urang Matang (2019) "What made 2-Tone different to everything else at that time was that Jerry directed all the visuals," confirms Storey. It seems fitting that Dammers should receive an award named after Oliver Tambo, who was president of the African National Congress while in exile from South Africa. It is arguably one of the most effective political songs in pop history. Northampton, Derngate Theatre. But he wrote and produced an incredibly strong song and video in the last days that Nelson Mandela was still in captivity. Lord Richard Attenborough, Director of Cry Freedom, Lord Neil Kinnock and music promoter Jerry Dammers writer of song "Free Nelson Mandela". Ghost Town. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. are touring this year to celebrate their 30th anniversary. For a short while, I felt as though I could have been the last person in the capital. The video was just as bleak, featuring a road trip through some of the least salubrious streets of Central London. London wouldnt experience riots again for another 26 years, when the looters couldnt even be bothered to swathe their frustration with their own plight with anything tangible; the looting in 2011 was simply an excuse to steal some new trainers. This was the time of Only Fools And Horses, of Minder, of Boys From The Blackstuff, of the nefarious and the naughty, the secondhand and the underhand. Dammers was born in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, South India, the son of Horace Dammers who was later Dean of Bristol Cathedral from 1973 to 1987. Born on May 22, 1955, Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, India, Dammers had been in The Cissy Stone Soul Band, and later graduated from Coventry University. The Specials & 2 Tone Records founder Jerry Dammers, who didn't take part in band's reunion, wrote, "Terry's death is very shocking, horrible and tragic news," continuing, "Terry was so young. is a plea for racial tolerance and was written by guitarist Lynval Golding in response to a violent racist attack he had suffered in July 1980 outside the Moonlight Club in West Hampstead in London, which had left him hospitalised with broken ribs. There had been internal fights within the group almost from the off, as Dammers was always trying to push the band in an experimental fashion. Dammers was always a genuine bohemian and in a way it was no surprise to me the way his career panned out (DJing, production, forming various esoteric dance orchestras). After a brief trip to the Pret at the top of our square (egg sandwich on white bread, a Diet Coke and a banana, eaten in that order), I finished up and started to walk home. As the studio was so small, each band member recorded their part separately, adding to the sense of separateness; and when they were together, there was bickering, scowling. She was, though, when she claimed that money couldnt buy either trust or racial harmony. To escape crime and to buy bigger houses and to get their children into better schools, they fled to suburbia, specifically to the areas on the outskirts of South East London. [13], The three songs for the single were recorded over ten days in April 1981 in two separate sessions at Woodbine Street: seven days from 3 to 9 April and then a further three days from 15 to 17 April. Founding Specials member Jerry Dammers has hit out at his bandmates' reunion next year. These were domestic experiences, the kind that visitors to the UK just wouldnt understand. Motivated by racial tension, a perception of inner city deprivation and heat, the defining factor was the ongoing war of attrition between the black community and the police. I was blown to pieces, He was open about everything: inside a new documentary Willie Nelson & Family. As news of the attack spread, so hostilities began and the police lost control of the area for two days, during which time dozens of fires were started and shops looted, photojournalist David Hodge died a few days later, after a gang of looters he was trying to photograph attacked and beat him. Jerry Dammers was born on 22 May, 1955 in Ooty, India, is a Keyboardist, songwriter, DJ. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. It was last seen in British general . 29th December 2015. It was unbelievable. The week after the song was released bingo! Gentrification continued apace, as Lambeth Council spruced up the area, preventing the conversion of houses into flats to attract middle-class house buyers and transforming the old covered market into a shopping mall with upmarket cafes and restaurants. [17] The original Ghost Town car can be seen (and sat in) at the Coventry Music Museum. And the faster I started to walk, the slower I became. "It was inspired by what we saw touring," recalls The Specials' founder and song writer Jerry Dammers . [Terry] Halls chirpy memories of the good old days, Rico Rodriguezs long elegiac trombone solo and that ghastly chorus of taunting wraiths. Youth unemployment was rife as the country felt the bite of Thatchers cuts and riots were erupting all over the country, riots that appeared, with eerie synchronicity, at the same time as Ghost Town. We had some really great times together and it is truly tragic that he has died so young. The riots would eventually end, although not before The Specials themselves collapsed. As they were due to appear on Top Of The Pops to promote the record, Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Neville Staples told Dammers they were going to leave, appearing a few months later as Fun Boy Three (werent they just) with their debut single, The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum, a record that owed much to the lyrics and orchestration of Ghost Town. Member of The Specials Buy. Dammers was a Mod in the 1960s, then became a hippie, before becoming a skinhead. To achieve the effect he wanted, Collins utilised a kit-built Transcendent 2000 synthesiser to create a "ghost" sound, which he used to fade in and out at the beginning and end of the track.[12][13]. House Of Common Festival Madness, Jimmy Cliff, Ziggy Marley, David Rodigan, The Kingdom Choir. All along Hall has claimed that the door remained open to his former bandmate. I knew Dammers extremely well for about five years in the 1980s. By the end of the 1980s, those pockets of gentrification that had started to pop up around Central London would become so oversubscribed that those on the bottom rungs were pushed farther and farther out, so those previously out-of-bound areas east of the city villages that promised the sort of luxurious loft-living the young bankers in Docklands had been promised a decade before. Recently, someone asked what Terry Hall was like. Thank you Jerry Dammers for bringing this to the world. Living in London you certainly got the feeling you were somehow living under siege. Accustomed to low-level civil unrest, nothing had prepared the police for confrontations involving rioters using axes, sledgehammers and even cars as weapons. But apart from that, I have no idea why Jerry isnt doing it. However, it was to come sooner than anyone thought, as Tesco bought a site on Acre Lane the day after the 1985 riots. C'est le genre de miracles que sont capables de raliser les Gorillaz. Jerry Dammers experimented with lounge-noir on their second album, causing intra-band friction. You've got to, you've got to. The family moved to England, and Jerry was raised and schooled in Coventry. [22], The song experienced a thematic resurgence on music streaming platforms in 2020, after lockdown orders were placed following the COVID-19 pandemic. In South London, conflict gave an edge to every transaction in a corner shop, every late-night walk home. Jerry Dammers attended King Henry VIII School, Coventry. and The Spatial AKA Orchestra. Jerry Dammers - Biography Biography Dammers was born in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, South India, the son of a clergyman who went on to become Dean of Bristol Cathedral, he attended King Henry VIII School, Coventry. Once and for all. I spoke to him for this article a few days ago and he is as disconcerted by the current crisis as all of us. Man behind song that became an anti-apartheid anthem to receive award for outstanding work benefiting the country, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Jerry Dammers said the award was a 'fantastic honour'. while they were looking for her son Michael Croce in relation to a suspected firearms offence . Lonely Library feat. The ska . From 2001 to 2012, the Afro-Caribbean population of Lambeth, the borough that houses Brixton, fell by eight per cent, even though the boroughs overall population rose by nine per cent. You got . More importantly, it was heard in South Africa where it was banned but became an anthem in the fight against apartheid. #jerrydammers #georgeshaw. Collins wanted the song to sound more like a Sly and Robbie roots reggae track, so he brought a copy of a Sly and Robbie-produced single, "What a Feeling" by Gregory Isaacs, to the studio so that drummer John Bradbury could mimic the drum sound. However, Dammers issued a statement in December denying this, claiming that The Specials had driven him out of the planned reunion. Wrong! After becoming overwhelmed with the multitude of choices available in the 24-track studio used during the recording of More Specials, Dammers had decided that he wanted to return a more basic set-up, and after a recommendation from bass player Horace Panter who was familiar with the place, the band chose the small 8-track studio in the house owned by John Rivers in Woodbine Street in Royal Leamington Spa. The band had already had huge success as the standard-bearers of the multiracial 2 Tone organisation (which included the likes of Madness, The Selector and The Beat) and had had hits with Gangsters, A Message To You Rudy and Rat Race, among others. Jungle Music (1982) by Rico Rodriguez and The Special AKA Producer credit: Jerry Dammers. Wrong!'"[4]. 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Dick Cuthell and Rico Rodriguez had already gone back to London, and I had to record that flute by actually dropping in. He left India at the age of 2, first living in Coventry, then moving to Sheffield at the age of 10. [23], In December 2021, a commemorative plaque was affixed to the house where the former Woodbine Street recording studio was located. Not a well-known name to many. So the levels of anger were huge. I saw it develop from a boom town, my family doing very well, through to the collapse of the industry and the bottom falling out of family life. Founder of Two-Tone Records and core member of The Specials. This Sunday at the Union Buildings, the official seat of the South African government in Pretoria, he will receive one of the country's highest awards, the Order of the Companions of OR Tambo, for outstanding work benefiting the country. For those of us who were not part of Thatcherisms good life, for those of us who were excluded, then Ghost Town spoke to our bruised hearts, says Tony Parsons, who was still writing for the NME at the time. Their first, a live recording of Too Much Too Young, was essentially The Sex Pistols Bodies gone ska, but the intervening year saw The Specials ditch that punky-reggae template. Since the song had no proper beginning or ending during recording at Woodbine Street, Collins recreated the idea of fading in over a sound effect, which he had used previously on "Lift Off", the B-side of "At the Club". I can remember walking out of a rehearsal in total despair because Neville would not try the ideas. Jerry Dammers: How The 'Devil's Chord' Split The Specials In an exclusive MOJO interview, the architect of 2 Tone reveals how violence at the Ghost Town sessions finished off the group. London, Clapham Common. Winston Silcott, Engin Raghip and Mark Braithwaite were convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, although all three were cleared by the court of appeal in 1991 after it emerged evidence had been tampered with (Silcott remained in prison for the separate murder of another man, Tony Smith, finally being released in 2003). There were weird, diminished chords: certain members of the band resented the song and wanted the simple chords they were used to playing on the first album, Its hard to explain how powerful it sounded. Yes, I know Lennon wrote it, but its a brilliant live version and one of the real treats the bonus tracks add to this CD. Spent an afternoon listening to these without disappointment. But so embedded were these in the British psyche, that Dammers needed only a minimum of words to paint his picture. Ghost Town epitomised the two-tone idea that black and white can operate in the same unit and speak to the youth. He taught me so much about what a proper musician is supposed . And an activist. Even though the polices stop and search powers were about to be curtailed by a government who could see that they werent working, many in the force had become almost institutionalised, especially in their attitudes towards black youth. Pride followed prosperity and in the summer of 2011, when opportunistic revellers attending a street party used the excuse of the riot in Tottenham a few days earlier to loot and burn a string of shops in Brixton, local residents were incensed, calling the thugs pathetic Its just an excuse for the young ones to come and rob shops. First we lose Lemmy, now news that Brad from the Specials has passed away. The Special AKA perform Racist Friend. There is a suggestion that his real name was Gerald Danki but this seems unsubstantiated. At its last concert in Berlin the orchestra, containing some of the cream of Britain's jazz players, had expanded the scope of its repertoire. He also founded 2 Tone Records. The music video, directed by Barney Bubbles, consists of bass player Panter driving the band around London in a 1961 Vauxhall Cresta, intercut with views of streets and buildings filmed from the moving vehicle, and ends with a shot of the band standing on the banks of the River Thames at low tide. The Broadwater Farm riot in Tottenham, in North London, a week later, was dominated by two deaths. how did stephen walters lose his front teeth how did stephen walters lose his front teeth Jerry Dammers at Rock Against Racism, Leeds, in 1981. Facebook gives people the power to. The plaque mentions "Ghost Town" was recorded there. There was frustration about two-tone falling apart. Apr 07 2010. - Jerry Dammers/The Specials (1984) It was a simple song that packed a mighty punch, a masterstroke of music and politics, wrapped up in four glorious minutes of ska-infused beats from the pen of Jerry Dammers, of the UK group The Specials. I spent the years between 1981 and 1987 knocking about in South London, living in various housing association flats in Brixton, Peckham, Herne Hill and The Oval. [3], The song's sparse lyric alludes to urban decay, unemployment and violence in inner cities. Ghost Town was obviously referencing the situation. There was also a growing sense that the Tories had no understanding of, and no pastoral interest in, the have-nots under their care, those who hadnt wouldnt benefit from financial deregulation, privatisation or Thatchers changes to the welfare state. Aug 26 2019. Jerry Dammers is a singer and pioneer songwriter of the Coventry, England based ska revival band The Specials or The Spatial AKA Orchestra. "He'd say, run the checkerboard pattern right across, move this figure . It was hell to be around." Photograph: David Corio/Redferns The lead singer, Stan Campbell, was very young. Dud Thud. Amongthe others who have shared kind words and remembrances: Belinda Carlisle,Boy George, Rage Against the Machine,Dexy's Midnight Runners, Billy Bragg,Squeeze's Chris Difford, The Sleaford Mods, Ted Leo, Rancid, The Interrupters, Lush's Miki Berenyi, Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley, Everything But the Girl'sTracey Thorn, Less Than Jake,The Brian Jonestown Massacre's Anton Newcombe,Matt Sharp (Weezer, The Rentals), Geoff Barrow (Portishead, Beak>),The Charlatans' Tim Burgess, former Cure member Lol Tolhurst, The Mountain Goats, Michael McKean, Jon Cryer, Sparks, Mark McGrath, Frank Turner, Catbite, Shepard Fairey, director Tim Pope,and more. However, there was a tense moment towards the end of recording when Dammers decided at the last minute that he wanted to add a flute to the song, and with no free tracks available Collins was forced to record the flute directly onto the track containing the previously recorded brass section, with the possibility that any error would have rendered the entire track unusable: The guy who played the flute was a member of the band King and we recorded him in the hallway with a microphone at the top of the stairs to get the natural reverb from the stairwell. Please enjoy your records. Jerry Dammers will be given the Order of the Companions of OR Tambo, at a ceremony in Pretoria on Sunday. Nothing. Jerry Dammers, fundador del sello 2 Tone, letra que se opone directamente al gobierno . Yes, there was a royal wedding, in sharp juxtaposition to inner-city decay, a wedding that would produce a genuine royal superstar, yet the riots the worst for a century would resonate throughout the country for years. We went clubbing together, spent a few memorable New Years Eves in Bristol (where his parents were from), spent birthdays together and once DJd together at a miners benefit at the Wag Club in 1983 (he played politically correct funk while I played right-of-centre disco). Who is Jerry Danvers? And, unlike Orpheus, without looking back. Dammers record was an apocalyptic portrait of inner-city oppression set to a loping beat offset by an unsettling and vaguely Middle Eastern motif: Government leaving the youth on the shelf No job to be found in this country The single sounded like the fairground ride from hell, a snake charmer of a song, complete with strident brass, madhouse wailing and dub-style breaks. Riot City. They were slightly yobby the NME called their debut album a speed and beer-crazed ska loon but they had an underlying social conscience. Well, I had to put a piece of tissue under my chin because sweat was dripping off my face due to it being so scary one mistake and that would have been it! A notable recording artist, Jerry Dammers is a pioneer and keyboardist who has been dynamic in the melodic world for over forty years. However, I also thought he might turn out to be our generations John Barry, scoring important movies with solemn yet iconic orchestral themes, balancing Jacques Derrida with Francis Lai, Scott Walker with Dr John. The morning after the first 1981 riot was almost as bad as the riot itself, as the mess and the devastation made you feel as though you were living in a place that was never going to improve, that was only ever going to get worse. In 2002 Dammers told The Guardian, "You travelled from town to town and what was happening was terrible. 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