Scared to Dance: Dance Craze + Q&A with Jon Ronson

Featuring The Specials, Madness, The Selecter, The Beat, Bad Manners and The Bodysnatchers.

The legendary concert film Dance Craze captures the best of 2 Tone Records, the iconic label that emerged from Coventry in 1979, to release the best of the British ska revival.

Director Joe Massot (‘The Song Remains the Same’) and acclaimed cinematographer Joe Dunton filmed 2 Tone bands at various venues over the course of 1980, using the newly invented Steadicam on Super 35mm film to make it look like the camera was dancing along with the beat of the music.

The result is an incredible document of the sheer force and energy of the musicians and fans from one of the most exhilarating post-punk scenes.

Scared To Dance are an independent club night, live music, film screening and book event promoters founded by Paul Richards in 2009. The club plays post-punk, indiepop, new wave and art rock music and is on the first Saturday of the month at The Victoria and the third Saturday of the month at The Shacklewell Arms in London. We also host club nights in Berlin, Glasgow and Brighton.