The Bodysnatchers - Easy Life

Footage from the Dance Craze film (1981?)
The Bodysnatchers were a seven-piece outfit from London. Formed in mid-1979 during the British ska-revival movement by bassist Nicola, it was the only all-female band of the 2-Tone era. They were fronted by vocalist and song-writer Rhoda Dakar who later went on to join the Special AKA.

'Dance Craze' is a film and music recording released in the early 1980s and can be called the best visual document of the Two-Tone movement featuring live performances from the six bands central to the original cult of British Ska: The Specials; Madness; The Selecter; The Beat; The Bodysnatchers and Bad Manners.

The performances were shot entirely on location in Aylesbury, Bradford, Hemel Hempstead, London, Cherry Hill, Leicester, Liverpool, Portsmouth and Sunderland.

Each band is on top form and the film does indeed go some way to capture the atmosphere of those shows, but what the film does lack is some sort of insight into 2 Tone or the Ska revival in general.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 2tone
• ska
• bodysnatchers
• UK
• dance
• craze
• rhoda
• dakar

[spiblaze26]

awesome , still one of the best songs to date ... i wish it was so easy !!!

[ZLUGGO]

Clearly underrated band!

[TheFemmgurl]

been looking for this video! YES..COME BACK SKA

[AmyyAbsynthe]

Oi!

[RobbieReineldt]

Miranda rocked!

[chrisdevere]

We used to buy our groceries off the basist from her fruit and veg stall she ran with her dad and brother at the market near where I grew up. all of a sudden from her saying she wanted to form a band she vanished and her brother said she had formed the Bodysnatchers. She was a really sweet person and I thought her gorgeous as a kid!

[burnleyskinhead]

Wicked upload

Oi Oi !

[Babania1]

great band!! still got the Dance Craze Lp I bought in 1980, together with the massice poster of all the groups that came with the album, a brilliant era of British youth culture!

[eddboy1]

i have dance craze cd...awsommmme...

[oioigeeza]

ask rhoda shes on myspace for the lyrics

i was at this concert brill !!

rhoda the ska queen

hot miranda on sax

dance craze the film is on dvd and cd !

oioi

[kevo4369]

Forgot about this song! Definitely a British Ska classic.