Favourite album: Impossible to choose but Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables by Dead Kennedys is pretty awesome. Also, she was sexually abused, over a period of months, by an adult neighbour. Telling her parents led to an awful scene (they made her retell her story in front of the neighbour and his pregnant wife). Aged 10, she went into herself.

The Selecter’s Pauline Black: ‘When we get on stage

The first single from the album FRONTLINE is out now and it has just been added to the BBC Radio 6 Music playlist I ask how she felt about the death of the Specials’ singer, Terry Hall. She says she was far closer to Ranking Roger, from the Beat, and was very upset when he died, in 2019 (one of the songs on Human Algebra, Parade the Crown, is a tribute). About Hall, she says: “I didn’t know Terry that well. I didn’t know Terry from the 2 Tone tour, and he just wasn’t a person that… We didn’t warm to each other, but I did admire his talent. His talent was mighty.” We’re very pleased to announce that Emily Capellwill be supporting us on our 40th Anniversary tour in the UK later this year.Gigging Northern Ireland – www.giggingni.com " INTERVIEW: The Selecter". Giggingni.com . Retrieved 7 January 2015. There were about 30 people on the coach,” she says, “and I always used to sit up the front of the bus. And there’s a photo of me, and I’m reading Alien. And it fits the way that I felt on that bus. People gave me a wide berth. Because I wasn’t like Pepsi and Shirlie or whatever – not marriage material. And anyway, I already had a husband [she’s been with Terry since 1973]. And I wasn’t a bloke.” To support independent record shops The Selecter are taking part in this year’s official UK Record Store Day with a special release of THE SELECTER – LIVE IN COVENTRY ’79 on Clear Vinyl in Drop 2 on 17 July

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In 2022, following an eight-year live hiatus, Hard-Fi advised that they would play a handful of dates, including a gig at the Kentish Town Forum in London. Whether it was the length of time since […] The announcement comes during Coventry’s UK City of Culture 2021 year in which she has played a pivotal role – in the bid and the celebrations. In the last few years The Selecter celebrated their 40th Anniversary and returned to the Official UK Charts in April with a reissue of their debut album Too Much Pressure.What will be more surprising to most is that they’ve been almost consistently producing music since. This is their 16 th studio album. Well, she was 10 years older than all of us. And if Debbie Harry turns up, everybody looks like chopped liver, don’t they? I often look at the picture because I’ve got it in my toilet. We were all interested in one another, but I see the expressions on my and Poly’s faces and they’re decidedly different from the others’ expressions… We’re like: ‘What are we doing here? Where do we fit into all this?’ There were other photos taken, she says, where she and Poly weren’t included. In 2021 The Selecter performed at festivals & shows plus Pauline performed in the Coventry City of Culture opening ceremony, took part in numerous media events, was a proud supporter of the first dedicated 2-Tone exhibition at the Herbert Museum, launched & attended the Mobo Awards in Coventry and she also presented this year’s Turner Prize.