Sombrero Club (2-tone ska)

[Ray Karr]

I found this band yesterday, and I love the music, but I mainly wanna write about how I found this band, because it was a lovely experience.

A friend of mine who's also got the ska brainworm recently sent me a playlist of underground Argentinian ska, and one of the bands in there, Skabú Simbel, stood out to me. Their music (which SLAPS btws) feels a little more like a middle point between the classic 2-tone and the 1st wave Jamaican ska, and they're pretty much nowhere (not on bandcamp, not on spotify, barely on any social media sites, and I can only find one EP of theirs.

So, I start digging, see what there is about them online, and I find an old Blogspot from 2007, apparently written by a former member, who writes at the beginning (original, then translation by me):

(...) si uno analiza la edad promedio del público que concurre a los shows de Satélite Kingston y/o Sombrero Club, muy pocos tuvieron la oportunidad de presenciar un show de Skabú Simbel (...)

(...) when looking at the age range of the people that now go to Satélite Kingston and/or Sombrero Club shows, very few of them actually had the chance to witness a Skabú Simbel show (...)

I know Satélite Kingston, they're a lovely ska-jazz and rocksteady band I listen to all the time... and here they are mentioned next to one I've never heard of in my life.

Of course, I look up their music, and it's incredible. The singer has a lovely voice, and it's exactly the kind of mood I'm in right now. And it also made me a little nostalgic. I found this band by exploring the internet, it's something I don't do as often as I did ten or fifteen years.
So yeah, now that band and their music is forever associated in my mind with the experience of having stumbled across them on an ancient blog while looking for something else :3

[Linkard]

I found this band yesterday, and I love the music, but I mainly wanna write about how I found this band, because it was a lovely experience.

A friend of mine who's also got the ska brainworm recently sent me a playlist of underground Argentinian ska, and one of the bands in there, Skabú Simbel, stood out to me. Their music (which SLAPS btws) feels a little more like a middle point between the classic 2-tone and the 1st wave Jamaican ska, and they're pretty much nowhere (not on bandcamp, not on spotify, barely on any social media sites, and I can only find one EP of theirs.

So, I start digging, see what there is about them online, and I find an old Blogspot from 2007, apparently written by a former member, who writes at the beginning (original, then translation by me):

(...) si uno analiza la edad promedio del público que concurre a los shows de Satélite Kingston y/o Sombrero Club, muy pocos tuvieron la oportunidad de presenciar un show de Skabú Simbel (...)

(...) when looking at the age range of the people that now go to Satélite Kingston and/or Sombrero Club shows, very few of them actually had the chance to witness a Skabú Simbel show (...)

I know Satélite Kingston, they're a lovely ska-jazz and rocksteady band I listen to all the time... and here they are mentioned next to one I've never heard of in my life.

Of course, I look up their music, and it's incredible. The singer has a lovely voice, and it's exactly the kind of mood I'm in right now. And it also made me a little nostalgic. I found this band by exploring the internet, it's something I don't do as often as I did ten or fifteen years.
So yeah, now that band and their music is forever associated in my mind with the experience of having stumbled across them on an ancient blog while looking for something else :3

Such a cool story ! It's so true that we don't "discover" things this way on the internet as much anymore. But now you'll always remember the band by this investigation that you conducted!