Somehow I neglected to add this article here when it ran a year or so ago. The author, Aaron Carnes, is currently finishing up a book about how ska music evolved after the Two-Tone era, in the US and Mexico and beyond. Aaron told me a little about the impact of the movie Dance Craze, after I had shared with him what a huge influence it was on the early UpTones. Not surprisingly, it turns out Dance Craze was also a key piece to many of the other bands whom Aaron interviewed, and there’s a whole backstory to how the movie flopped in the UK and almost never saw release in the US. I look forward to reading more about all that! Meanwhile, adding this East Bay Express article to the “Press” section here on my Interbloggy. Time to update the things. All of the things.
