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  • I know he's getting on a bit by now, but it's a right shame that Terry doesn't give it much energy. Having seen Toots Hibbert (and the Maytals) at wilderness festival last year, toots still really goes for it and he's got near enough 15 years on Terry. Shame that, absolute blinding performance otherwise though, Lily's clearly loving it!

  • Really surprised by this I'm not Lily Allen's biggest fan by any stretch but she certainly gave it socks, great to see Billy Bragg having a good old pogo as well.

  • who dance in front of the laptop?

  • lily allen is the shit baby

  • she aint no Pauline Black

  • The 2 tone ethos was inclusion, not exclusion. Big up lily allen.

  • @perkotv There's inclusion and then there is lilly allen.

    I'm also ugly and tone deaf, does that make me think that people want me to stand on a stage and make a noise? No. Anyway, my dad isn't famous so it wouldn't happen

  • Pink dress and suckin' on a fag; so SEXY!!!

  • Put the fucking tab out lily...you look so common!!!

  • Not listened to Lily yet, are the comments correct??

    Not too bad, what did you expect? Brilliance? Nah... Good though! Lower your expectations and enjoy cunts!

  • @gingergiblet If anyones a twat it's the presenter!

  • @gingergiblet no lily allen is fuckin dope idk why people in the comments are so pissed

  • lily allen ruins this, she is such a twat

  • ha ha, Billy Bragg bopping along!

  • Looks like most of the punters are too young !!

  • think some one should do a ska Festival

  • Loving the bit of Bragg at 0:43

  • Lily just killed it. Shame.

  • she is shit

  • it wasn't the specials. i mean, how come they call it the specials while there were only two of them? and p.s, oi lili, are you intenionally ruined the show? smoking during the show with the legend is somehow unnecessary

  • Terry Hall looks good!

  • Lily should have watched Skinhead Moonstomp 79' on youtube first coz this sucks .

  • shite nit the orginal drummer and not jerry dammers on keyboards no good that!!!

  • Nonsense. Who cares what someone wears while skanking. I used to put on Ska shows in small towns in Ontario, Canada, and the "new hippie" chicks in their long hippie dresses used to skank with the best of those of us wearing our Docs. They held their own, and had a great time. It's about enjoying the experience. While I don't much like Lily Allen, it's great that she's spreading the love for Ska. Did you see the kids jumping in the audience? I think that's great.

  • This is good, she's bringing up the ska movement again to the younger generations, introducing new bands, she loved the skinhead movement, even if she doesn't suit it 

  • not strong enough...

  • wow this is great and Terry looks like he is enjoying it, having seen him in concert many times this is as happy as he ever looks :)

  • Jaysus... that was embarassing... who ever thought that was a good idea...

    Lily Allen does not have a morsel of musical credibility... and I am afraid this just highlighted the fact... ie Stick on a florescent pink dress and dance... and only join in when Terry says its ok...!!!

  • Oi Lily, Terry said not to interrupt while he's talking! Manners.

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  • lilly just because your dad use to wear loafers, fred perry, sta press and braces, it doesn't you the right to prance about in a 50s pink dress and.. grrr in fact someone just get her off the stage, it's embarrassing lol..

  • i love you lily allen....

  • that wee burd is lovin it up there on stage with the specials....but lets get hings straight here,terry hall is not fuckin interested!!!!!!!!!!!!!!never was for last few years ov the specials.i.e gangster shit town,worse specials song ever.................anyway,lo­ng live madness,aye,they call it madness.............

  • i do believe "hey little rich girl" would've been more relivant here.

  • Want to make a correction: don't know exactly when Terry started getting help for being bipolar (might have already been the case at the time of this video, if yes it was the beginning), but it was in recent years.

  • People get ur facts straight b4 talking nonsense

    Lily has every business being there, whether u like her or not. She loves ska & is instrumental in The Specials' reunion, though Terry is responsible for it.

    Terry never moved much onstage or smiled, but he did want to be there. He always suffered from depression & later on from manic depression. Since that vid, he finally accepted to get help. He's now full of meds which is why he's changed physically these recent years. He's still a genius!

  • Wankers, Look at it again, she's lovin' it, Billy Bragg skankin' in the wings. Isn't that what Ska is all about, stop being snobs and just Skank !!

  • Gee - not sure what to say to this. Poor old Terry McCann whose had his problems over the years, pumped up on stage my pop tartlett Lily Allen, with the godfather of credibility Billy Bragg watching on in the background. I'm not sure where I stand on this video!!

  • I saw this. it was shit. at least it was consistent with the rest of the "festival". the only good thing was the dance tents (and the magic numbers).

  • Haha, he looks sooo fucking pissed off.

  • Lily allen killed it she's dancing "i use the term lightly" around like she has piles.

  • Good, but Lilly kinda ruins it

  • hmm, it's good to see people getting into ska again nowadays, but not in that way I think, hats off to Lilly for getting them back and all, but they would be better with Rico and stuff still around...

  • Umm where the fuck is neville staple? take that dress off her and put it on Nev, would be ten times better!

  • at 0:42  Billy bragg!

  • Bless her.

  • lily allen is a richkid talentless tosser!!!

  • where is the pogo?

  • ..ok version but...theres nothing like the original band..i mean john bradbury's drumming is what backbeats the specials!!! this isnt even the same feel the song has..no power or drive..uhhg

  • I was in my tent trying to dry off while this was on. Luckily i could watch this from my tent though :-)

  • Wow, The Specials are still sounding and looking great — very different from the well know Lily Allen.

  • shit, lily allen should concentrate on being manufactured media "personality" show-biz brat stoner, because she no talent for anything but marketing/hype.....!!

  • cool song

  • In September they are in Hamburg!

  • Shame Jerry Dammers isnt with them!

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  • I'd go gay for Terry Hall.

  • Good tune. Fuck the lot of you fuckin dead toilet fucks

  • Shut the fuck up all those who diss Lily Allen she has a incredible voice.

  • @GrudgeGirl100 she sounds like a dead toilet

  • This isn't the specials. Too out of tune. AND LILY ALLEN FAILS

  • cant believe people are saying that shes as great pop star and singer but should have left it to the specials.....NO SHES FUCKING NOT!!!!, SHES NOT A GOOD ANYTHING, TALENTLESS FREAKY LOOKIN BITCH WHOS EGO IS INFLATED BY PEOPLE WHO REALLY ENT GOT A FUCKIN CLUE WHAT REAL MUSIC IS ABOUT.......SERIOUSLY!!!!

  • FUCK OFF THE STAGE LILLY WANKY

    SUCK YOUR CRACKBOYFRIEND

  • Look at her bouncin' around, gie the lassie peace ffs, she's Skankin' her feet off.

    When you get upset about shit like that you're no longer a purist, yer a fuckin' snob. Now go put on yer braces and boots and remember what it was all about.

  • Ceck out my guitar cover of this song

  • least she has a good taste in music aye

  • least she has a good taste in music aye

  • dont understand the lily hate here, if you like the specials surely you should respect their decision to have her sing with them? they clearly like her and she isn't doing anything wrong lending a vocal or two for an unusual duet

  • Ha! Did you actually just use the word 'wench' that's so funny!

  • Yes, goes better without Lily Allen, or Lady Gaga or, Madonna or any other talentless wench that fancies their chances at covering classics by original artists that can't be bettered.

  • id rather listen to a lily allen cover of gangsters with some members of the specials. than listen to a amy winehouse cover of hey little rich girl that sounds horrible.

  • Lily please leave it to the big boys. I find it a bit embrassing to see her prance around in a pink dress with the specials doing Gangsters.

  • @katoness I agree totally. I think Lilly is a really good pop star but, for fuck sake. A band that rallied against the establishment and the silver spoon brigade, to be accompanied by a very silver spoon young lady is just too much!!!

  • @katoness not at all! I think she did a wicked job!

  • @stamboni316 I think not. The fucking matrix girl!! Just as well Terry is bk with em, or else Amy and Lily would of taken over the specials, my worse nightmare. AAAAHHHH!! Run for the hills!!

  • @katoness Matrix girl? I don't get it...

    But anyway, each to their own I suppose, I really like it!

  • @katoness i thought she was their protegee

  • @LimonPower tbh i think they picked the wrong one.

  • @katoness Yeah ill 2nd you on that one!

  • @katoness LOL I found it a little embarrassing that terry hall seemed to want to be anywhere else but on the stage

  • @sleeaustralind Ha, ha, ha.....Nice one!!

  • awsome remember it well (ish) haha those kids dancing i do hope this music will live on forever i grew up with this music the specials, madness, and the english beat and 2 tone music always lifts me and brings a smile to my face when you hear the first beats its like oh yes come on i'm 25 now live and breath 2 tone xx

  • Not the specials.

  • Sounds Shit ! I`m missing the old Specials.

  • well dont listen you knob

  • @HANSJACKOB The music is evolution!!!

  • @HANSJACKOB Sounds a little bit modern ;-)

    >>> Ska for ska´s sake <<<

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  • madness like this music...

  • Bernie Rhodes knows don't argue!!!!

  • I dunno. This doesn't irritate me as much as say "I Kissed A Girl." At least she's singing it with the band.

  • oh god i hate Lily allen. the specials on their own kick ass :D

  • Is that Billy Bragg dancing? Ugh! I'd give my right arm to meet him and Terry.

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  • @Sami7685 It must be Billy

  • @rebrosya She kicks the song down a few notches, certainly not the best...

  • They did there best but the old raw version is way superior!

  • all gangster are here !!

    best ..

  • Where's Brad?

  • @rebrosya jog on idiot

  • Try BAN, MOD GIRLS, brilliant!

  • allen? srsly? ((

  • nice bit of Dad Dancing from St. Billy.

  • personally i have nothing against Lily but shes not right for this song

  • Shut the hell up Lily

    You spoil it soooo much

  • Shame that Allen bird spoiled it.Specials are a fantastic band

  • I think lily is doing a great job. on the one hand she`s doing a great job as an entertainer. on the other hand she`s showing fuckin fantastic bands like the specials to a wider audience.

    cheers

  • This is the only music I can dance to

  • Please take the mic away from her

  • Amazed to see The Specials had lost none of their energy after all these years...and Lily snuck in there like a real ol' timer...quality ;o))

  • @jorgesantoine24 Like a real ol' timer ? She sounds like the high street version next to Saville Row PLEASE !!!

  • hhhmmm just ahving a quick drag, but still it looks cool if ur doin it to ska

  • gangsters isnt from their first album

  • hi a ska song from the 70's

  • She is muck

  • @MrDel000 ....muck? eh...no....FABULOUS...yeah!

  • spoilt little brat.....she cant sing....she is void of any talent....why dont she geta job in a laundrette would suit her...

  • @Geoffdam123: She doesn't have to. She has written 2 Number 1 albums and received an Ivor Novello award for Best Song ..'The Fear'.

  • Why did Terry, and Lynval agree to do this with this stupid bitch?? WHY?

  • @CaptinCrawky hear hear no2.

  • i like the specials and i love lillyyyyy greetings from argentina

  • lol the one time ive actualy seen her sing and she cant even keep in tune

  • Lets face it, they don't have a fraction of the talent that madness have; even with her on stage with em.

  • @Gangjoyful - I wouldn't say lack talent, they just have a different vibe. The Specials were always very serious, and their songs were social commentry. Madness were more fun, more lively and whilst they also wrote moving songs, did so in a more lighthearted way. Suggs comes across as jolly and fun whilst Terry Hall came across as serious and full of angst which many shared during the Thatcher period.

  • @Gangjoyful You don't have talent recognising talent, more like ! lol

    Madness are good (fellow oldschool Londoners n' ALL... their music is HOME) but The Specials are better

  • @gsh73la Don't have talent ay? well check out the stiff naked fools myspace page (my band) and then tell me I don't have talent ;)

  • terry hall lacks energy here....

  • @Smurchison His voice is just lovely, what ever way

  • I swear I saw Anderson Cooper dancing

  • Have been a Specials fan as long I remember and I think what Lily does here is great.. In fact, Miss L. is all about having fun and is much more doing whatever she feels like doing than the most of us. And you know what..? She enjoys ev'ry f*cking second of it.. Don't get appearances blind you..

    Rude rules..!!

  • Lily's Voice SO Doesn't Sound Right In This To Me.

  • Gawd this is sexeh :D

    got to love ska, I still have my dads first bob marley album, from when before he had dreadlocks and wore a suit ;)

    Nevere realy cared for this lilly char besides her being a hotty, this makes me se her slightly diff ;)

  • @Scum71succer A hottie ? It's not even sexy, at all. Her part, that is.

  • Love the Specials

  • Quien es el tio que canta? no es el original verdad?

  • @Cliff88

    Terry Nuttal es el tio. Tampoco es esto, es el original.

  • this is brilliant takes me back to my mod days!

  • Terry Hall is a pretty handsome dude these days.

  • Electrifying mixture!

  • who wouldnt sing with the specials? give the girl a break ffs

  • anyone who says lily allen is shit and relying on her parents e.t.c has no fucking idea... whether or not you personally like her stuff is down to individual taste but she has taken a lot of styles, ideas, influences and come up with some interesting stuff not to mention good lyrically. I don't think she is the best live but definitely talented...

  • @MrSiddeney Nope - don't buy this at all. It was decided in meejaland that Lily Allen would be big. She was on the front page of Observer Music Monthly before she'd even played a live gig. That says it all...

  • @malthuswasright and like jedwood are selling millions and all your mates think they are good because the media said so? Whether or not the media promoted her I buy her music because it is good

  • Wicked this.

  • Lily Allen makes good music but her persona is annoying

  • yes billly bragg :)

  • terry hall the legend

  • u don't like Lily Allen??? Than Fuck off damn stupid assholes,,,,God i hate u fucking ppl....

  • u don't like Lily Allen??? Than Fuck off damn stupid assholes,,,,God i hate u fucking ppl....

  • Too each and every person shitting on Lilly Allen, hear this: she had Joe Strummer for a Godfather, and that's pretty fù*$ĉking lucky so think twice before being displeasant, judgemental and narrow minded...

    To all the others, Rude Boys, Rude Girls, Keep doin' the Ska!

    PEACE!

  • @papiercul08 so I should ignore her shit music just because she's the goddaughter of someone from the most overrated band ever

  • ...gross...

  • Lily Allen is shit and kills every song she opens her mouth on. She ain't a success cause of her talents( cause she has none) it's all down to her parents. No dress sense and a crap singer

  • owe

  • so what if this isnt lily allens song she does a great job of it. a lot of the specials stuff wasnt theres even this song is just that song al capone.

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  • I seriously don't understand people who come on here just to be mean to the person singing it, if you don't like it then don't watch it. Stop being so fucking bitchy and go watch something you will enjoy.

  • @emstratten People are entitled to their own opinions my friend, and I am also of the opinion that lily allen is shit and only became famous because of her parents connections.

  • @HaroldStupidAlbanian Having grown up on Ska I have just listened 'properly' - without bias - to Lily's 'Smile' on MTV just now and I was struck by its 'Terry Hallness'. I googled 'Terry Hall on Lily Allen', trying to see if Terry had ever commented on Lily's songwriting style and the similarities with his. There was no such comment that I could find but I found this which probably says more than any words. Clearly Terry rates her. That's good enough for me.

  • lily has a very famous dad a lot of front and almost no talent

  • Lily allen ruined this song shes horrible

  • A twat bitch with no talent, wear a bright dress - still makes you the daughter of a twat. Celebrity? Fack Off

  • @LengenDamo

    Er..tell us all how you are so much more successful than Lily Allen, gobshite. When did you get up and sing with the Specials?. What chart topping singles have you released?. Have you ever even had a job?.

    Measuring your own success against "A twat bitch with no talent"....how are you doing?... If it aint as well as Lily, then wtf are you?

  • @LDNn15 I guess I'd be more like you, a mong.

  • @LengenDamo Hear hear!

  • @LengenDamo you're a bit of a cnut...or just jealous...you want that dress

  • she sounds like crap.

  • lilly you killed this song it was never yours

  • She's just the Uglyest dancer and the worst backing vocal The Specials ever had.

    :D

  • Go Lily! Go Lily! Lovely!

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  • lily allen is one of those birds i'd love to knock into next century. fuckin mockney privately educated tryin to act street. grow up in Peckham & Bermondsey & you'd have better fuckin lyrics than LDN when you actually grow up amoungst it. CANNOT FAULT THE SPECIALS & MR DAHMERS THOU

  • Fag Ash Lil