The Bluebeaters squeeze in another single off their superb Everyone Knows album before the end of the year with their take on Luigi Tenco’s 1962 Italian hit and croony ballad, La Mia Geisha. Poor old Luigi sadly committed suicide in 1967 after hearing that another of his songs had been eliminated from the Sanremo Music Festival a.k.a. the festival which inspired Eurovision. If only he’d
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THE BLUEBEATERS: La Mia Geisha (2015)
THE BLUEBEATERS: Hungry Heart/ The Model (2015)
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More premium ska covers action here from The Bluebeaters as their latest 45 drops shortly. This’ll be the second single from their excellent Everybody Knows album released in the spring. The whole point of a cover should be an inspired re-imagining of the original and here the band manage that twice over with impressive
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THE BLUEBEATERS: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (2015)
Everybody knows that Everybody Knows is the very fine ska/ rocksteady comeback LP from Italian ska/ rocksteady outfit The Bluebeaters that came out earlier this year – or at least they should do by now. And everybody probably knows that The Bluebeaters are a covers outfit. But does everybody know that The Bluebeaters’ new single is a very fine boss reggae cover of the title track
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THE BLUEBEATERS: Everybody Knows (2015)
Rating: You might have thought it would be fairly catastrophic for a band who have been around since the mid-nineties to lose their lead singer, yet The Bluebeaters didn’t miss a (blue)beat, when original vocalist Giuliano Palma left for a solo career two years ago by filling his empty check ska loafers with a bandmate, Pat
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CHART – APRIL 2015
(NEW) 1. The Bluebeaters – True Confession
Chukka chukka chuk!!!
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THE BLUEBEATERS: Roll With It (2015) + video
The flurry of excitement from The Bluebeaters‘ camp continues in the run up to the release of their new LP Everybody Knows as the ska-covers outfit release the lead single. It’s the band’s version of a certain iconic British rock band’s top three 1995 single Roll With It which, if the video is to be believed, is hotter than the contents of Arthur Daley’s lock-up and had to be passed
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THE BLUEBEATERS: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (2014) Free download
It’s now December of course which means that silly season is upon us. Here at MB Towers though we always try and exercise a modicum of class and restraint where ‘seasonal’ entertainment is concerned. Consequently we bring you The Bluebeaters‘ ear-pleasing ska arrangement of Ronettes classic I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. As ways of losing your innocence go, seeing
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THE BLUEBEATERS: Toxic (2014)
What have Italian blue beat/ ska/ rocksteady covers crew The Bluebeaters got in common with Monsters From Mars, Mark Ronson and Hard-Fi? That’s right, they’ve all covered Britney Spears’ hit Toxic – in this case in an uptempo horns-led ska version. There’s no video yet but if one does appear, I wouldn’t bank on the boys appearing naked except for a sprinkling of diamonds. Do expect the flip
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