Trojan Skinheads

Trojan Skinheads is a name used by Anti-fascist Skinheads to remind other Skinheads of the subculture's heyday in 1969 when ska music was at its most popular, and as a reminder of the cult's multicultural Jamaican and British working class roots. Trojan Skinhead is also a style of music created by fusing elements of punk rock and ska. The sound was pioneered in the late 1970s by UK bands such as The Specials, The Selecter, The Beat and early Madness. Many of these bands were signed to Two Tone Records, Stiff Records and Go Feet Records and were based around the West Midlands area in the UK. The term summed up the West Midlands scene at that time.

Trojan Skinheads' (Two-Tone)music

Bad Manners

Big 5

The Ethiopians

International Beat

Judge Dread

Madness

Maroon Town

The Beat (aka The English Beat in the US)

The Selecter

Special Beat

The Specials

The Bodysnatchers

See also

Anarcho-skinheads

Red and Anarchist Skinheads

The Spirit of 69

Trojan Horse

Trojan Records

Two Tone

2Tone Records

External links

• www.thespecials.com