Steel Pulse to perform Handsworth Revolution at London International Ska Festival

Next year's London International Ska Festival have announced they will have Steel Pulseperform their classic album 'Handsworth Revolution' at the festival next April.

The event has also confirmed Horace Panter's Uptown Ska Collective, Paperboy, andDon Letts have been added to the line-up

They join the first acts confirmed who were Rhoda Dakar sings The Bodysnatchers, Vin Gordon & His Real Rock Band, Beat Goes Bang ft. Everett Morton (The Beat), The Toasters, France's Two Tone Club, The Talks, Italy's Miserable Man, The Rifffs from Malta, Japan's Beat Bahnhof, and Dojo. Plus DJs The Tighten Up Crew, Sounds & Pressure Sound System with Phil Bush, and Axis Sound System.

Further band and DJ announcements coming very soon, including Jamaican legends, 2 Tone heroes and a host of international names.

Now in it's fifth year the festival will take place across multiple London venues (one wristband gets you into all of them) over Easter Weekend from Thursday 2nd through to Sunday 5th April 2015.

The festival is set to highlight all that's good about the world of ska, from it's roots in American Rhythm & blues, to the Jamaican originators, through the 2 Tone era and right up-to-date with 21st century ska sounds. 

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The early bird offer has ended. Tickets are priced at £141 for all four days.

As well as the main events further fringe events take place including cinema, DJ all-nighters, Record Fair, Thames cruise, which will all build into a week's worth of shows at legendary London venues.

Tosh kids in royalties fight...

CHILDREN of late reggae singer Peter Tosh are currently entangled in a legal battle over US$2million stemming from royalties over his estate.

According to an article posted on the website www.clintonlindsay.com, Tosh’s daughter Aldrina McIntosh claimed that her younger sibling Niambe has failed to pay her and their eight other siblings any royalties for the past five years. Their father Peter Tosh was a member of the Bob Marley and the Wailers Band.

In 1987, he was shot and killed in a home invasion. It is said via the court case that Tosh wrote the lyrics to songs such like Get Up, Stand Up which rakes in as much as US$300,000 annually.

The article further stated that the royalties payment was supposed to be divided equally among the 10 children. Niambe McIntosh, Tosh’s youngest child, took over her father’s estate in 2009. It had previously been run by a court-appointed lawyer because Tosh died without a will.

At the time, there was only US$280,000 in the estate’s coffers, but Aldrina believes that her younger sister is sitting on another US$1.7 million, according to court papers.

Niambe told The Post on Tuesday that the amount was exaggerated but declined to reveal the balance. “We’re all in conversations to start things differently, and we’re moving forward in a united front,” Niambe said.

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