Name: Give me energy by THE DUBTONES in poora party
Duration: 2 min 53 s
Description: from the album "end of transmission" 2010

poora party

Asylum

Last Train Home

taken from the dubtones debut 6 track mini album release in  2006 on lower the tone records. recorded in dublin jan 2006.

outside - The Dubtones

Melancholy Dub - Demo

fuck wit is about all them fuck wit,s in your life .......and nazi s

WE HATE NAZIS
we don't care if your black or white 



Fuck Wit

The Crack

Jah War

Alien Nation 
 I saw you on the news last night 
 Was it you or someone else? 
 Who talks and sounds and looks like you 
 From the manicured hands to the shiny black shoes 
 I used to be angry but it’s hard to care 
 When everywhere I look I just see despair 
 And the ever growing rift between the rulers and the ruled 
 It’s time to tear it down and just start again 

 There’s something wrong 
 Career politicians who have never had a real job 
 There’s something wrong 
 They’re like the landed gentry of the nineteenth century 



 This is an alien nation 
 It’s a country I don’t recognise now 
 This is an alien nation 
 The divide’s getting ever wider 
 The richest one percent have taken all the money 
 We’re left to feed off their crumbs 
 They hold all the power but there’s no accountability 

 So I pick up my morning paper 
 An industry that’s out of control 
 I see a world of deceit and corruption 
 You’re supposed to write the stories not be the news 
 You hack the phones of murdered children 
 Intimidate those that need protection 
 Police and politicians are in your pay 
 A toothless watchdog never stands in your way 

 There’s something wrong 
 These seekers of truth reduced to bullying and lying now 
 There’s something wrong 
 Where can I turn to if I want to find integrity? 

 So I listen to my radio 
 They’re talking to some masters of the universe 
 These fallen Gods who know no shame 
 No contrition, they’ll just do it all again 
 We’re paying the price for hubristic pride 
 The burden falls on the vulnerable 
 So please don’t be poor in this land of ours 
 You’re going to get crushed and there’s no hiding place now 

 There’s something wrong 
 Financial institutions prey to gambling addiction and 
 There’s something wrong 
 The weakest bear the debt of their irresponsibility

The Brixton Tapes

Alien Nation

The Proletariat's Soma Holiday was the legendary Boston band's first album. Released in 1983, it is a classic of American hardcore punk. On October 21, 2016 it gets its first official reissue on S-S Records.  http://s-srecords.com 

B4 The Proletariat - Subsidized

A3  The Proletariat - Famine

Title track for the 2016 release album form The Dubtones

War Music

Hard Times taken from the 2016 album release "War Music" by The Dubtones on Lower The Tone Records.

Hard Times

"The Other Half Lives (Politician 2019)" is a reworking of a former Irish top 10 single, that has been used several times on BBC news weirdly enough. The current crisis and right wing swing of global politics, not least in Ireland, the USA and the UK is showing the chasm that exists between the ordinary citizen and the super rich. The decision to re-work, re-write and re-record this track for the upcoming 10" mini album / book / cd box set "Adverse Reality" through Louder Than War Records on December 9th had been based on that.

Reference Copy Only

Adverse Reality

Paranoid Visions 'The Other Half Lives (Politician 2019)'

Taken from the 2006 mini album "one for the road" on lower the tone records.

The Dubtones - Cops are on their way

from the album "end of transmission" 2010

Give me energy

your world - the dubtones

Danger to yourself - the dubtones

The Dubtones 
 
Blending their own mix of ska-punk since 2005, no apologies for hearing influences from The Clash and The Specials by way of The Ruts & The Jam, as the 4 piece Dublin band The Dubtones wear their influences on their sleeves! 2006 saw their first release, the “One For The Road” 6-track mini album, a hybrid of straight-up Punk Rock (Subhuman/Outside/One For The Road), Ska-punk (Neurotic/Cops Are On Their Way) & Dub-punk (Against The World). Constant gigging saw the band attract two tribes of fans, predictably enough they were immediately embraced by the punk fraternity, as the material matured the ska scene equally saw the appeal.

 Like many bands, personnel changes were inevitable; they reverted to a 3 piece and released the 14 track album “End Of Transmission” in 2010 on their own Lower The Tone label. It’s a blistering piece of work, again spanning skankable ska (Capture The Flag/Radio Breakdown/Propaganduh!), menacing punk (Subversion/Smalltown Hero/Slowmotion Solitude), & dub (Blood For Freedom).

 Busy on the gig circuit since their inception, they have clocked up some 260 shows, including many headliners. They have opened for a who’s-who of legendary ska and punk outfits; Bad Manners / The Selecter / Neville Staple / Citizen Fish / Devils’ Brigade / The Lurkers / The Vibrators & The Damned, to name but a few. They have played the main stage at the Rebellion Festival in Blackpool (the biggest punk / alternative festival in the world) and returned this year after a gap of 5 years, and Ireland’s home-grown Booleigh Ska Festival in Kildare. Closing the year off by opening for Rancid in Belfast (at the bands request), and having a new mini album (Asylum) already in the bag for release in the first quarter of 2013, it was a year to remember.

 Not all agitators are subversive, but The Dubtones certainly are!!!

 So why wait? Go see them, check out the tunes or book them now! It’s only a matter of time...

Give me energy

THE DUBTONES

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