The English Beat

The ska stalwarts will visit in May

"The way I figured it was you only get 30 years for murder in Britain nowadays, it’s been 33 years – I’ve left it long enough, so we can pretend it’s long-awaited instead of long-overdue."

They find camera phones distracting and want them banned.

It’s a long way from Birmingham from Los Angeles, but Dave Wakeling of The English Beat has proved his dad wrong – you can make a living singing your own songs – as he tells Michael Smith.

For three decades they've been crowned the greatest in ska and now The English Beat are hitting Australia.