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On 07/02/2019 at 21:29, chrisp65 said:

 

On 08/02/2019 at 10:59, blandy said:

That's great on so many levels.

That the Specials got in touch with her, that she did it,

that she does a good performance

the Prince Buster thing,

and it sounds great.

I heard another song off the album and that was bobbins.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-47147069

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It is less than two years since Saffiyah Khan's calm smile, inches from the face of an English Defence League activist, made global headlines. But since then, she has gone through a frenzy of activity that has taken in everything from the catwalk, to making a film with the BBC, to performing with ska revivalists, The Specials.

When the 20-year-old was photographed defending a woman at a protest outside Birmingham Library on 8 April 2017, she was moments away from going viral.

That photograph of her coolly going toe-to-toe with a protester was seen by thousands and described in The Guardian as a symbol of the city "standing up to the far-right group".

But perhaps what is less known about that image is that from a different angle Khan can be clearly seen wearing a Specials T-shirt. Within hours the band had offered her tickets to one of their gigs.

But that has become a distant footnote to the story. She now appears on The Specials' new album, Encore, with Ten Commandments - a personal riposte she penned based on a track by one of the forefathers of ska, Prince Buster....

more on link. Great story.

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