The sound of This Town: 10 essential 2 Tone songs

• For a brief and rather glorious period at the dog end of the 1970s, the 2 Tone ska movement gripped the nation’s pop kids. Bursting forth from the Midlands with stylish chequered clothes and snappy black and white graphics, a frenetic mash up of punk and reggae celebrated multiracial harmony, with a colourful cast of characters pitching good time party anthems in direct opposition to a rising tide of racism embodied by the National Front movement.