Mr P
Pookout Party 2 - The White Horse is Back and it rocked!
One of the UK’s toughest pubs (According to Sky) in the UK – check. One of the hottest days of the year – check. (the local pharmacy...
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Mr P
Apr 10, 20223 min read
Skaline - Easter's Coming - This Week's Ska Releases
It’s Easter week and we have some Easter treats for you this week on www.buttondownradio.com First up – this week’s Featured This Week...
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Mr P
Jan 1, 20222 min read
Best Ska Release 2021 Button Down Radio Listener's Poll
2021 Listeners poll What an awesome year for music! Pretty crap for everything else... 2446 Votes on our Best ska release 2021 poll was a...
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Mr P
Dec 19, 20215 min read
Redeemon - Metalliska is here... and it's good!
One of the most hotly anticipated releases of the year is the debut release by Redeemon. Masterminded by Pook (Pookout Records, Beat the...
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Mr P
Jun 7, 20214 min read
Ska-Line A Round Up of The Global Ska Scene 7th June 2021
A bit late this week - midweek edition! Let's kick off with BDR stalwarts The Bakesys. This band has quite the heritage from Bakesys...
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Mr P
May 9, 20214 min read
Ska-Line A Round Up of The Global Ska Scene 9th May 2021
Yes, yes, yes! Here we go people – almost a third of the way through May and on the back of a MASSIVE Bandcamp Friday! TOP news has to be...
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Mr P
May 2, 20213 min read
Ska-Line A Round Up Of The Global Ska News 2nd May 2021
First up - news has to be about The Selecter's 40th anniversary reissue of Too Much Pressure which released this week and got ska back...
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Mr P
Apr 11, 20215 min read
Ska-Line A Round Up Of The Global Ska News 11th April 2021
Morning all - first off, today is the birthday of the Original Rude Boy, Dr Neville Staple. Neville Staple found fame with the Specials...
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Mr P
Mar 28, 20214 min read
Ska-Line A Round Up Of The Global Ska News 28th March 2021
Morning everyone - in the week that we celebrated the life of Ranking Roger, we get treated to the new single by Ranking Junior. Like Fly...
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Mr P
Mar 21, 20215 min read
Ska-Line A Round Up Of The Global Ska News 21st March 2021
Alright fellow humans! Let's GO! So we've been living with this pandemic thing for a year now and it sucks. However, a tiny silver lining...
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Mr P
Mar 14, 20214 min read
Ska-Line A Round Up Of The Global Ska Scene 14th March 2021 or..
Well to be honest, after Bandcamp Friday last week... it's been a bit quiet except for... BUTTON DOWN RADIO IS BACK ONLINE BABY! As we...
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Mr P
Feb 21, 20217 min read
Ska-Line Round up of the Global Ska Scene 21st February 2021
Whilst we await the next version of our escape plan from COVID here's what's going on in the ska scene! Due soon - the new split single...
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Mr P
Feb 14, 20215 min read
Ska-Line Round Up of the Global Ska Scene February 14th 2021
Morning all - here we go with some stuff about the music we love... I'm sure it hasn't passed you by, but just in case... The Selecter...
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Mr P
Feb 12, 20215 min read
Specialized - Blockbuster A Tribute To Glam Rock
Well... this was always going to be a bit different wasn't it. I can remember standing at The Big One 8 on the Sunday, I think we had all...
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Mr P
Feb 7, 20215 min read
Ska-Line Round Up of the Ska Scene News 7th February 2021 (thank you Big Andy)
A pretty good week for music really! We have already told you about the new releases for Big Fat Panda and Cartoon Violence (what do you...
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Mr P
Feb 4, 20212 min read
Cartoon Violence - New Single - Friend or Foe
Hot on the heels of Big Fat Panda, comes a brand new single by Cartoon Violence! I believe that this is the first new material released...
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Mr P
Jan 31, 20213 min read
Ska-Line Round Up of the ska scene news 31st Jan 2021
Morning skankers - this week was dominated by the release of the new Mighty Mighty BossTones single on Tim Armstrong's Hellcat Records....
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Mr P
Jan 3, 20211 min read
New Mark Foggo track - '21 Will Be Better
More news - Brand new track by the legendary Mark Foggo! After the slight disappointment of 2020 (!) Mark has come back with a song of...
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Mr P
Jan 3, 20211 min read
The Skapones - Live EP
Skapones fans were given a little Christmas treat in the form of a Live EP for free. This was only for subscribers and a right little...
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Mr P
Dec 28, 20203 min read
The Best Ska and Rocksteady of 2020 (in our opinion anyway)
Well 2020 has been a bit of a rum old year hasn't it! Through April and May when we were in lockdown 1.0 the music started to dry up and...
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