Steel Pulse Tour

 

Steel Pulse

50th Anniversary Celebration Tour

Support from The Selecter at all 5 UK shows

Steel Pulse are back on the road in 2025 with a 50th Anniversary celebration tour. The tour will take in five venues in March 2025, including a home town Birmingham gig, and support at all shows will come from The Selecter: a band also of West Midlands origins. Tickets are available now from: https://www.aegpresents.co.uk/event/steel-pulse/
 
Initially founded by David Hinds, who remains to this day, with Basil Gabbidon, and Ronald McQueen, Steel Pulse formed in 1975 - inspired by a love of Bob Marley & The Wailers. Whilst they would go on to support the icon on a European concert tour in 1978, they found themselves lifted with the arrival of the first wave of Punk. Musically Steel Pulse deliver a heavy mix of Roots and Reggae, but there was a shared ethos and energy with the Punk bands. Steel Pulse were soon an integral part of the Rock Against Racism movement and shared stages – and beliefs – with the likes of The Clash, The Damned, The Stranglers and more.
 
Always though, Steel Pulse marched to their own beat, making music that provokes thought toward global unification. Songs like Chant a Psalm have landed on Rolling Stone’s Top 200 Best Songs list of the 1980s, and the six-time nominated group won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album for Babylon the Bandit. Lead singer and guitarist, David Hinds’ creativity, human persona, and visionary views are revealed through inspiring compositions that capture the effects of the African Diaspora. As Reggae revolutionaries, Steel Pulse is revered by the younger generation of artists and remains a powerhouse on stages around the globe.
 
Steel Pulse brought their righteous anger and fire to the world: this is a band that does things its own way. Their debut Handsworth Revolution album was a Top Ten for them. And so, after 50 years, the story continues: the band's twelfth studio production, titled Mass Manipulation, reflects decades committed to bettering mankind through music. Steel Pulse songs and lyrics continue to engage controversial topics of racial injustice and human rights on a global scale: themes as potent and relevant today as they were at the beginning of their career.
 
Support at all five shows comes from The Selecter, led by iconic frontwoman Pauline Black OBE. One of very few women in the 2-Tone scene, she is often referred to as the Queen of Ska. Known the world over for hits including Three Minute Hero, Missing Words, Too Much Pressure and On My Radio, The Selecter continue to tour and release new music proving that 2-Tone is still as relevant and important as it was 40 years ago. A new feature documentary Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story directed by Jane Mingay premiered in October 2024.
 
50th ANNIVERSARY TOUR UK DATES


MARCH 2025
 
Sun 9th NORWICH UEA
Tues 11th LONDON Roundhouse
Thurs 13th  BRISTOL Beacon
Fri 14th BIRMINGHAM O2 Institute
Sat 15th MANCHESTER Albert Hall
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