Help!... political UK ska bands?

Hey all! Got a cheeky question / favour to ask if you lot wouldn't mind helping me out...

I'm writing my dissertation on politics in 20th century Jamaican popular music, and how this has been incorporated into contemporary underground music in the UK

sooooo..
i'm trying to think of as many political ska / reggae / ska-punk / dubby (etc) UK bands as possible, and if anyone can think of a few to help me out that'd be ace!

Off the top of my head i've already got:
King Blues
SB6
Suicide Bid
Capdown (i know they're not around atm, but contemporary enough)
Asian Dub foundation
King Prawn
The Skints

Cheeeers!

Hmm, how about...

Pama International
Rebelation
Captain Black No Stars
Dirty Revolution
Resolution 242

...or, for that matter, just about any band on Do The Dog Records (as all of the above appear to be/have been).

culture shock and citizen fish.

Culture shock have real simple and to the point lyrics that are still quite clever, a band I like alot, and they play their ska-punk in a quite unique way, if you haven't heard them I'd advise you to give them a listen, some of my favourite songs would be Civilization street, color TV, and catching flies!

and well citizen fish i'm guessing you'd know already.

The Specials
The Selecter

Catch-it Kebabs - We wrote a song called 5 Years about the BNP

Cheeeers guys!
Had some of those down, but def a few new ones to look into
Jimmy.. skills, nice one! ..I'm actually more than anything writing about how reggae/ska based music is used as anti-racist protest in the UK.. so pretty topical!
I'll have to actually come down, n pick up a CD next time you play in Shef.. always forget.

You probably want to also look at Stand Out Riot - BNP and Random Hand - Tear Down if you have it.

What's that other RH song on the new album? Stand up for the Anthem?

random hand
comply or die


im sure i should know more, my minds blank

The Amazing Fletch wrote:What's that other RH song on the new album? Stand up for the Anthem?

British

'Political' may not be the best way to describe that song though tbh

Tear Down is about racism though, right? I miss the choreographed side to sideness that song provided.

Tear Down is about things being preconceived about people because of where they're from, not quite racism. Ie, not being able to make a point about stuff happening in a city because you live in the country, etc

What about Milk?

Also, what's "In" about? I can only understand a couple of words in the entire song.

This thread is now a Random Hand Q&A session.

Milk is anti-racist, yeah. 'In' is about a kid going to a party and having a weird internal monologue with his paranoia...bit of a weird one that

Sorry Summers, you started it though!