THE TOASTERS with support from: MATAMOSKA! | TURKEY BLASTER OMEGA | PINK SLIP
Presented by 413Ska
NYC’s legendary pioneers of American third-wave ska, The Toasters, skank into town to rock you and celebrate 45 years and counting of their infectious and highly-influential sound. Joining the frenzy is LA-based Ska band Matamoska! and Pink Slip and Turkey Blaster Omega, representing the east coast. Get beat-crazy!
🗓️ Friday, April 24th
📍 84 Cottage St. Easthampton, MA
🍺 Bar Open 6pm
🏁 Music 7pm
🎟️ $20
All Ages
THE TOASTERS: “When the world gets turned upside down, when loyalties realign, when everyone expects conformity: Don’t let the bastards grind you down.’ The Toasters, New York City’s seminal ska band, have lived by this maxim since their founding in 1981 by sole constant Robert “Bucket” Hingley. Formed in an older, grittier NYC, The Toasters lit the fuse on the American ska explosion — the U.S. crest of ska’s second, U.K.-bred wave, following the genre’s birth a generation earlier in Jamaica. At the center of it all was Bucket, a British expatriate working at the Forbidden Planet comic bookstore who simply missed the 2 Tone ska sounds of his homeland. With little scene to speak of, he did what any self-respecting rude boy would do — he started his own band and he hasn’t stopped, wave or no wave.
“Whether or not the mainstream media is paying attention to the genre is no real barometer about how well it’s doing,” Bucket tells Pure Honey. “And this ‘wave’ theory of ska is just a nuisance because it’s just one wave that started in 1955, depending on who you listen to, right?”
The Toasters’ early days were pure DIY hustle. Unable to find a label interested in their supercollider of ska, punk, reggae and New Wave, Bucket founded Moon Ska Records in 1983. Moon Ska would go on to become the Toasters’ home and the epicenter of ska in the U.S., launching dozens of bands.
– Abel Folgar for Pure Honey Magazine
MATAMOSKA! (LA): “East Los Ska Punk from sick ass foos for sick ass foos”
https://matamoska.bandcamp.com/
TURKEY BLASTER OMEGA (Rochester): “Roc City Ska Punk”
https://www.turkeyblasteromega.com/
PINK SLIP: 8 piece Boston ska punk band with big hooks and a bigger heart, serving high energy anthems with a healthy spritzing of sass.
https://pinkslipska.com/
