The Specials
Summer Series at Trinity College, Dublin
Rescheduled to 2nd July 2022
All original tickets are valid for the new date
SOLD OUT
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"Love is so much more powerful than hate. Hate is destruction and love is production." Lynval Golding.
The Specials are back with ten songs on a brand-new album. Influential, important and exhilarating live, they are a band embedded in this country's DNA. It is impossible to envisage the musical landscape without them, from the startling, angular Gangsters in 1979 to their swan song, the epoch-making Ghost Town in 1981. They infused ska with punk, homegrown political anxiety with wider issues. The Specials' ascendancy was swift. Two years, seven hit singles including two number ones, two hit albums, sell-out tours – the mass stage-invasions and audience energy only adding to the myth. They were everywhere; on Top of the Pops, Radio One, nightclubs and school discos.