Two-Tone Icons, The Beat Headline Devizes Scooter Rally 2025

Matthew Murphy, or Ranking Junior, son of the late Roger Charlery, aka Ranking Roger vocalist of eighties Two-Tone ska band, The Beat and new wave collective General Public has settled into the shoes of his father and now fronts a reformation of The Beat, which tours extensively. This includes our blossoming scooter rally in Devizes this coming summer….

If there’s two types of scooter rally and scooterist festivals in the UK, the boss events like Skamouth and BSRA nationals, and those locally-based eensy events constituting little more than a beer garden with DJ, showy hairdryers and undercooked hotdogs, Devizes Scooter Club’s annual rally has sat between the opposing levels, aspiring to better the value of municipal rallies. In its fifth year, Devizes Scooter Rally sets a president above them, striving to create the kind of environment more suitable for those mainstream “boss” events, yet retains the communal atmosphere of smaller events; that’s its magnitude; it is a blessing to our town to host it.

It does this by staging an impressive, tried and tested lineup in a hospitable and affordable atmosphere. It’s the Mardi Gras of the club, and members work tirelessly to welcome guests and design the perfect setting. This is not me flattering them, last year I spoke to several guests at the rally, from all over the UK, who stated, (in their own subtle and slightly dribbling way) the reason they love this event is precisely this balance between the electric atmosphere of a local event yet packing the punch of an established larger one…or words to that effect!

Whilst music at the rally has always been first-class, names might not be so recognisable to those outside the scooterist niche. This is set to change, as Birmingham’s The Beat were one of the key bands in the UK ska revival of the late ‘70s and ‘80s, and managed to crossover to the mainstream. You’ll all remember Mirror in the Bathroom, Hands off She’s Mine, and so many others, my personal favourite, Can’t Get Used to Losing You. You’ll all be up dancing, and making that essential Full Stop, I’m sure.

Set for the weekend of 25th-27th July, the rally for 2025 also boasts The return of the Butterfly Collective, Small Faces tribute, Small Fakers, Wardour Street, Cardiff’s The Brew, and DJs of the Soul Pressure sound system, but, thing is, you’ve only a couple of days to get your early bird wristband. Facebook message the Devizes Scooter Club, or call 078088 49965 now!

Goldsteppers at Devizes Scooter Rally 2024

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