LEGENDARY 2-tone artists, The Selecter, are currently on a 16-date UK tour, in support of their recently released studio album Subculture, and will be appearing at The Phoenix in Exeter on Friday, December 18.

Led as always by the iconic singer, author and broadcaster Pauline Black, The Selecter will be performing a selection of tracks from Subculture including recent single Walk The Walk alongside all the classics and live favourites including Three Minute Hero, Too Much Pressure and On My Radio.

Support on all dates comes from the all-girl punk band, The Tuts, who wowed Selecter fans up and down the country when they supported them earlier this year.

Since re-forming a half-­decade ago, The Selecter have become increasingly aware that their championing of 2-tone, ska, reggae and soul is firmly rooted outside of today’s mainstream genres.

Despite this, with over 110,000 Facebook fans and tens of thousands more across other networks, The Selecter’s following is worldwide and enduring. They remain figureheads for skinheads, mods, punks, northern-­soulers, and the many other groups who define themselves at variance with the status quo.

Singer Pauline Black’s series of shows on BBC 6Music were hugely well received and her book Black By Design continues to sell in droves worldwide.

The Selecter have headlined hundreds of gigs, played Glastonbury, Isle Of Wight and Coachella festivals amongst hundreds more, and performed extensively across Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

The Selecter is not just Pauline Black though; she appears alongside an incredibly talented band of musicians including Neil Pyzer (Spear Of Destiny) and Will Crewdson (Rachel Stamp) and they are co-­fronted by original member Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson, who features extensively on Subculture.