At The Specials reunion concert at Brixton on Saturday, you didn’t have to be male, over 40 and balding…
…but it certainly helped.
By the way, I think that The Specials playing live should become our leading economic indicator.
Think about it: their heyday was 1979 to around 1981, a period when the economy was fully in the toilet.
Then they break up, and within a a year or two it’s into steady growth.
And apart from a flutter in the early 90s it stays in growth mode right up until, well, the very moment last year when they announced they were to reform and head off on the road.
At which point it promptly went belly up, and has stayed that way ever since.
So when they announce their Leonard Cohen style ‘earn back the pension’ tour of student unions and the Wycombe Swan in 2015, sell, sell, sell…
