The post Arthur “Gaps” Hendrickson, Vocalist of The Selecter, Dead at 73 appeared first on Consequence. Arthur “Gaps” Hendrickson, vocalist of celebrated 2-tone ska band The Selecter, has died. He was ...

The Selecter were a British ska revival band from Coventry, formed in the late 1970s as one of the essential bands of the British ska movement. Much of what set apart The Selecter from many of the ...

Sad news: Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson of 2-Tone ska greats The Selecter died Tuesday at his home in Coventry, England where the band formed. He had been diagnosed with cancer last year. Word came from ...

This year marks the 45th anniversary of the release of debut album "Too Much Pressure" by Coventry band The Selecter, who toured with The Specials and Madness in 1979 as 2-Tone ska swept the nation ...

When Specials co-founder Jerry Dammers launched his 2 Tone Records ska revival label in England in the late ’70s, it sparked a 2 Tone movement with bands like his own, along with Madness, Bad Manners, ...

Pauline Black of ska royalty The Selecter performing at the 10th Supernova International Ska Festival in Virginia. (Credit: Heather Augustyn) It might sound like the plot of a movie. You know the one: ...

Soon after Pauline Black joined the Selecter in 1979 to complete the band’s original lineup the band from Coventry, England, scored a hit with its debut single, “On My Radio,” and found itself part of ...

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Ask most Americans what they think of ska music, and the reaction will likely land somewhere between a giggle and a dry-heave. Once the province of a young Bob Marley, and later of bands angry enough ...

Arthur "Gaps" Hendrickson, one of two lead singers for the great UK 2 Tone ska band the Selecter, has died. The band reported the news of Hendrickson's passing on Twitter last night. That announcement ...