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Dance Craze
Video cover for Dance CrazeDirected by Joe Massot Produced by Gavrik Losey Starring Buster Bloodvessel
Suggs
Jerry Dammers
Terry HallEditing by Ben Rayner
Anthony SlomanDistributed by Nu Image Films Release date(s) February 1981 (UK)
April 23, 1982 (US)Running time 85 min Country United Kingdom Language English Dance Craze is a 1981 British documentary film about the English 2 Tone music genre.
The film was directed by Joe Massot, who originally wanted to do a film only about the band Madness, who he met during their first US tour. Massot later changed his plans to include the whole 2 Tone movement. The film, shot in 1980, comprised performance footage of Madness, The Specials, The Selecter, The Bodysnatchers, The Beat and Bad Manners on tour throughout the United Kingdom. A soundtrack album of the same name was released the same year, featuring fifteen of the songs that were featured in the film.
Songs
- "Nite Klub" – The Specials
- "The Prince" – Madness
- "Ne-Ne-Na-Na-Na-Na-Nu-Nu" – Bad Manners
- "007 (Shanty Town)" – The Bodysnatchers
- "Three Minute Hero" – The Selecter
- "Ranking Full Stop" – The Beat
- "Big Shot" – The Beat
- "Concrete Jungle" – The Specials
- "Swan Lake" – Madness
- "Razor Blade Alley" – Madness
- "Missing Words" – The Selecter
- "Let's Do the Rock Steady" – The Bodysnatchers
- "Lip Up Fatty" – Bad Manners
- "Madness" – Madness
- "Too Much Too Young" – The Specials
- "On My Radio" – The Selecter
- "Easy Life" – The Bodysnatchers
- "Rough Rider" – The Beat
- "Man at C&A" – The Specials
- "Inner London Violence" – Bad Manners
- "Night Boat to Cairo" – Madness
- "Twist and Crawl" – The Beat
- "Wooly Bully" – Bad Manners
- "Too Much Pressure" – The Selecter
- "Mirror in the Bathroom" – The Beat
- "One Step Beyond" – Madness
- "Nite Klub" – The Specials
Soundtrack LP
Side One
- "Concrete Jungle" – The Specials
- "Mirror In The Bathroom" – The Beat
- "Lip Up Fatty" – Bad Manners
- "Razor Blade Alley" – Madness
- "Three Minute Hero" – The Selecter
- "Easy Life" – The Bodysnatchers
- "Big Shot" – The Beat
- "One Step Beyond" – Madness
Side Two
- "Ranking Full Stop" – The Beat
- "Man At C&A" – The Specials
- "Missing Words" – The Selecter
- "Inner London Violence" – Bad Manners
- "Night Boat To Cairo" – Madness
- "Too Much Pressure" – The Selecter
- "Nite Klub" – The Specials
External links
Categories:- British films
- 1981 films
- English-language films
- British documentary films
- Documentary films about music and musicians
- 1980s documentary films
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