Ska legends The Specials will visit Exeter Great Hall this winter as part of a new UK tour.
The legendary ska troupe have lined up shows across the UK, including stops in Nottingham, Sheffield, Scunthorpe, Glasgow, Blackpool, Liverpool, Llandudno,York, Leicester, Wolverhampton, Exeter, Southampton, Reading, Cambridge, Southend, Eastbourne and two nights at the Troxy in London, between October 22 and November 16.
Having formed at the height of the recession in the Seventies, the band returned at the height of another, some 35 years down the line: and although the show is pretty much a nostalgia trip, their observations on youth culture are every bit as relevant, their lyrics on race and social politics still as poignant, as they were all those years ago.
It may seem strange, perhaps, that it's taken all this time for one of the most popular UK bands of all time to reconvene.
When they did, and their reunion tour was announced in December 2008, the entire tour – amounting to 45,000 tickets – was sold out inside a hour: evidence, were any needed, of the place the band holds in the hearts of the nation.
However, relations within the band had always been fraught, to put it mildly.
While their meteoric rise to fame saw them clock up five top 10 singles and two Number 1s in the years between 1979 and 1981, helping to spawn the 2-Tone movement in the process, they split up at the very height of their success, allegedly in a dressing-room at Top Of the Pops, when Ghost Town reached Number 1.
But all that is, of course, water under the bridge.
"It's obvious that when we're standing together there's a definite chemistry," said Hall in an interview. "That's something I wanted again in my life."
The Specials hit Exeter Great Hall on Saturday, November 5, 2016. Tickets go on sale at 9am on February 26.