We are extremely pleased to announce, after lots of negotiation and arm twisting The Deltones will be live at The Great Skinhead Reunion Brighton on Saturday 8th June 2024
The Deltones were an eleven piece ska/bluebeat outfit formed in London back in the early/mid 80’s, and they featured former members of The Bodysnatchers. They were an all female band, apart from the drummer who was a male. The group also recorded a Peel Session for Radio 1 and a session for Capital Radio during the late eighties, and they were well known on the London gig circuit. They were also extremely popular in France, and they also appeared on Saturday morning TV in Britain performing the single, Stay Where You Are. The group decided to call it a day in the mid nineties, but by this time the line – up had changed considerably and they had moved on to playing pop – indie music rather than ska , although some of their ska tunes where performed during their set list at their latter concerts.
Links to Peel
Peel first saw the band in 1986 when they performed in Soho to celebrate 6 years of Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues night at the Gossip’s nightcluv. He mentioned seeing them in the Observer, published on 4th May 1986 and described that he was a fan when they first struck up:
“From the moment they struck up I was a fan. Since a typically untidy adolescence, I have suspected that women know something we men do not, that they can have an understanding and co-operative spirit that combative men can rarely, if ever, match. I’m limping through minefields here, I know, but I cannot imagine 11 men playing together on stage with the sense of community radiated by the Deltones.” [1]
A month later, the band did a session for Peel’s show, despite not having a record deal at that time and in the late 80’s, when the group were signed to an indie label, he played some tracks from the band’s only solo album, Nana Choc Choc In Paris, on his programmes.
