**2 TONE OVER AMERICA** I'm super excited to announce a 12-date 2 Tone Tour of the US featuring Lynval Golding Sarah-Jane SunJay Owen & Pauline Black Los Angeles San Francisco Las Vegas Tempe AZ Denver [...]

Too Much Too Young: the 2 Tone Records Story is now published across north America   From the Publisher Editorial Reviews Review "It started in the English Midlands city of Coventry. Madness, the Selecter, the [...]

Now in paperback... TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG: The 2 Tone Records Story  'This feels like the definitive story of 2 Tone. Masterful' BILLY BRAGG 'A scintillating read' PETE PAPHIDES 'Essential' MOJO https://geni.us/TooMuchTooYoung

BREAKING NEWS - SKA GOES SKY! Daniel talks to Anna Jones on Sky News about 2 Tone & Too Much Too Young: the 2 Tone Records Story with lots of great footage of The Specials and [...]

The Specials & The Selecter on the BBC News including Horace Panter & Daniel Rachel talking about the publication of 'Too Much Too Young: the 2 Tone Records Story (An Uncut & Times/Sunday Times Book [...]

Too Much Too Young has been named a Times/Sunday Times Books of the Year. 'Jerry Dammers set out with a goal: to unite black & white, male & female, in punky ska that would serve [...]

How The Specials and 2 Tone empowered a generation to believe in a multicultural future Against a backdrop of division and despair, disaffected youth united through The Specials and 2 Tone to challenge the Thatcherite [...]

Sandwiched between Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan, Uncut magazine name Too Much Too Young No. 2 Book of the Year  'The energy and idealism of Jerry Dammers' label is brought brilliantly to life'

‘Richard Branson was shrieking: has anyone signed them yet?’ The invasion of all-female ska band the Bodysnatchers In an extract from a new book documenting the 2 Tone ska scene of late 70s and early [...]

The Lost Album of the Beatles is the Guardian / Observer Book of the Day 'Daniel Rachel imagines what the next Beatles album might have been like, with painstaking detail and great stories,' writes David [...]

Calling all fans! Brand new #documentary charting the birth, the rise and the fall of the music culture movement that put the focus on Britishness, looking at the intertwining fortunes and rivalries of #Blur, #Oasis, [...]

◀︎ TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT ► 5 Nights with Simon Fowler (Ocean Colour Scene) Birmingham • Liverpool • Edinburgh • London In conversation with award-winning author Daniel Rachel, Simon will discuss his life as the lead singer [...]

Singer/Songwriter and Ocean Colour Scene frontman Simon Fowler goes head to head with author longtime friend and collaborator Daniel Rachel, in a war of the words! They talk about collaborating on their new book, their [...]

Listen again as Simon Fowler (Ocean Colour Scene) talks to Chris Evans about his new memoir and plays three exclusive live acousitc songs. Listen here. Simon plays at 2hrs. Watch Ocean Colour Scene’s Simon Fowler [...]

Episode 124 features a great interview with  Simon Fowler (Ocean Colour Scene) sharing stories about #paulweller, #oceancolourscene and how copying other singers compares to Sebastian Coe running the mile....! Listen and then read all about [...]

Strictly limited edition coffee table book with rare & exclusive 7” single Pre-order ONE FOR THE ROAD today at: www.ourfavourite.shop ‘When you find that things are getting wild don’t you want books like these…’ ONE [...]

ONE FOR THE ROAD The Lives & Lyrics of Simon Fowler & Ocean Colour Scene The new limited edition, fully illustrated hardback coffee table book by Simon Fowler. Collaborating with his lifelong friend, award-winning author, Daniel [...]

Daniel joins Matt Williamson to discuss the Beatles in 1969 and 1970 in this hugely popular Youtube show. Watch, listen and comment...  

Daniel Rachel hears 100 hours of Beatles audio – “it’s like the DNA in a crime scene” Daniel Rachel, old pal of the pod, has just published ‘Like Some Forgotten Dream: What If The Beatles [...]

Oasis: Knebworth Two Nights that Will Live Forever is a Sunday Times Bestseller The inside story of the band's record breaking weekend in August 1996 Photographs by Jill Furmanovsky. Words by Daniel Rachel

Two Nights That Will Live Forever Join photographer Jill Furmanovsky and author Daniel Rachel for a celebration of Oasis: Knebworth. The event will feature a 30 minute live Q&A with the photographer and author followed by a [...]

I Just Can't Stop It: My Life in The Beat (B Format) ‘The heart and energy [Roger] displayed as The Beat’s perpetually in-motion, ageless MC and voice over decades is fully present in this conversational, [...]