The Specials Concert History

The Specials is an English “2 Tone” ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry, Warwickshire. Their music combines a danceable ska beat with punk’s energy, underpinned by an informed political and social stance.

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The Specials Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2026) (Page 11)

Date Concert Venue Location
Sep 26, 2016
The Specials
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House of Blues San Diego San Diego, California, United States
Sep 24, 2016
Music Tastes Good
"Music Tastes Good" / The Specials / Iron & Wine / Squeeze / Dr. Dog / Warpaint / Deltron 3030 / Melvins / Twin Peaks / Vintage Trouble / Girlpool / P.O.S. / Easy Star Allstars / Metz / Kae Tempest / Nick Waterhouse / Cody Chesnutt / Le1f / Pokey LaFarge / Hippo Campus / Open Mike Eagle / Skinny Lister / Los Master Plus / Riothorse Royale / Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas / Foy Vance / The Dead Ships / The Ziggens / The Cambodian Space Project / Dustin Lovelis / Lemolo / Machineheart / Spider / LP3 & The Tragedy / Neighbors To The North / Golden Drugs / Special C / The Lost Weekend / clipping. Show all bands
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Downtown Long Beach Long Beach, California, United States
Sep 23, 2016
The Specials
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The Warfield Theatre San Francisco, California, United States
Sep 23, 2016 –
Sep 25, 2016
Music Tastes Good Festival! 2016
Iron & Wine / De La Soul / Warpaint / Dr. Dog / The Specials / Sylvan Esso / Squeeze / Living Colour / Melvins / Del the Funky Homosapien / Gallant / Foy Vance / Easy Star All-Stars / Rival Sons / Deltron 3030 / Kid Koala / Cody Chesnutt / Hippo Campus / P.O.S / Metz / RX Bandits / Nick Waterhouse / Girlpool / Dan the Automator / Vintage Trouble / Son Little / Le1f / Open Mike Eagle / Chief Adjuah (FKA: Christian Scott) / Pokey LaFarge / Skinny Lister / Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas / Las Cafeteras / Lemolo / The Ziggens / Spider / Pregnant / Los Master Plus / The Cambodian Space Project / The Dead Ships / The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers / The Sound of Urchin / Lost Weekend / Riothorse Royale / Cody Chestnutt / Rudy De Anda / Special C / Golden Drugs / Spare Parts for Broken Hearts / Dustin Lovelis / Neighbors To The North / MC Imprint / Sister Crowley / LP3 & The Tragedy / Bootleg Orchestra / Solo & Indre / Machineheart / Twin Peaks Show all bands
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Music Tastes Good Festival! Long Beach, California, United States
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Sep 21, 2016
The Specials / the Far East
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McMenamins Crystal Ballroom Portland, Oregon, United States
Sep 20, 2016
The Specials / the Far East Showbox at the Market Seattle, Washington, United States
Sep 17, 2016
The Specials / the Far East
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First Avenue Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Sep 16, 2016
Riot Fest & Carnival 2016 (Day 1 of 3)
Refused / Jimmy Eat World / The Specials / The Anniversary / Laura Stevenson / Tancred / Diarrhea Planet / Tigers Jaw / Neck Deep / Citizen / Set Your Goals / Turnover / All Time Low / Pierce the Veil / The Dillinger Escape Plan / Sleep On It / NOFX / Big D And The Kids Table / The Flaming Lips / Ween / Meat Puppets / Girls Against Boys / Eskimeaux / Bad Cop/Bad Cop / Dan Deacon / Basement / SOMOS / Glassjaw / GWAR / Fu Manchu / 3TEETH / Off With Their Heads / Julian Marley / Pepper / Highly Suspect / Touché Amoré / Jule Vera / Worriers / Violent Soho / Holy White Hounds Show all bands
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Douglass Park Chicago, Illinois, United States
Sep 16, 2016 –
Sep 18, 2016
Riot Fest Chicago 2016
SOMOS / Sleep On It / Balance and Composure / Tancred / Basement / Tigers Jaw / Brand New / Citizen / Death Cab for Cutie / Set Your Goals / Touché Amoré / Morrissey / Motion City Soundtrack / Turnover / Fitz and the Tantrums / Frank Iero and the Patience / Bleached / Brick + Mortar / Death Spells / High Waisted / NOFX / Refused / The Walters / GWAR / Tasha the Amazon / The Dillinger Escape Plan / The Flaming Lips / Pierce the Veil / Pepper / The Anniversary / Bad Cop/Bad Cop / Meat Puppets / Neck Deep / Fu Manchu / Worriers / Donna Missal / GZA/Genius / Descendents / Social Distortion / Bad Religion / Jule Vera / The So So Glos / Summer Cannibals / Syd Arthur / NOTS / Kitten Forever / Violent Soho / Partner (CDN) / The Wans / Deal's Gone Bad / The Specials / Ween / Misfits / Andrew W.K. / Eskimeaux / Big D And The Kids Table / People Under the Stairs / the Far East / Night Riots / Sleepy Kitty / Off With Their Heads / Me First And The Gimme Gimmes / Deftones / Dee Snider / 3TEETH / With our Arms to the Sun / The Gallow Walkers / Dee-1 / Rob Zombie / Joey Bada$$ / I the Mighty / The Hold Steady / Underoath / Highly Suspect / The Wonder Years / Creeper / Blackbox / Big Ups / All Dogs / War on Women / Hard Girls / A Will Away / Can't Swim / All Time Low / Julian Marley / Jimmy Eat World / Glassjaw / Diarrhea Planet / Girls Against Boys / Laura Stevenson / Dan Deacon / Bob Mould / The Hives / The Toasters / Plague Vendor / Hippo Campus / Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas / Fucked Up / Black Foxxes / Smoking Popes / Microwave / The Vandals / White Lung / Sleater-Kinney / Marina City / The Dirty Nil / Billy Talent / Death Grips / Jake Bugg / The Falcon / Chevy Metal / Denzel Curry / Thursday / Pouya / Swingin' Utters / Juliette And The Licks / Tiger Army / Leftöver Crack / The Julie Ruin / The Bronx / Nas / Method Man & Redman / Los Enanitos Verdes / Hellzapoppin / School of Rock Chicago / Holy White Hounds Show all bands
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Douglass Park Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Sep 15, 2016
The Specials
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Concord Music Hall Chicago, Illinois, United States
Sep 13, 2016
The Specials
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The Danforth Music Hall Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sep 12, 2016
The Specials
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House of Blues Boston Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Sep 10, 2016
The Specials
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The Fillmore Silver Spring Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Sep 09, 2016
The Specials / the Far East
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Terminal 5 New York, New York, United States
Jul 07, 2016
The Rolling Stones / The Specials Ricoh Arena Stadium Coventry, England, United Kingdom
Jul 18, 2015
Splendour in Nottingham 2015
James / The Specials / Amber Run / Bananarama / Roots Manuva / Jamie Lawson / Lawson / The Twang / Indiana / To Kill A King / Ferocious Dog / Iris Gold / Georgie / EYRE LLEW / Hhymn / Keto / The Swiines / Joy Mumford / Molly & Jack / RJMARKS / Cedric Peters / Daudi Matisko Show all bands
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Wollaton Hall & Deer Park Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
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Jul 12, 2015
The Specials

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew London, England, United Kingdom
Jul 11, 2015
The Specials Tynemouth Priory and Castle Tynemouth, United Kingdom
Mar 15, 2015
Lollapalooza Chile
Kings Of Leon / Calvin Harris / Robert Plant / alt-J / Kasabian / Interpol / Bastille / Major Lazer / Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley / Cypress Hill / The Specials / Rudimental / SBTRKT / NOFX / DJ Snake / Astro / Nick Murphy / Quique Neira / Pedropiedra / Tinariwen / St. Vincent Show all bands
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Elipse Del Parque O'Higgins Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile
Mar 14, 2015 –
Mar 15, 2015
Lollapalooza 2015
Calvin Harris / Kings Of Leon / Skrillex / Foster The People / Major Lazer / Bastille / alt-J / The Kooks / The Smashing Pumpkins / DJ Snake / Kasabian / Rudimental / Interpol / Jack White / Cypress Hill / SBTRKT / St. Vincent / Dillon Francis / Nick Murphy fka Chet Faker / Nicky Romero / NOFX / The Specials / Robert Plant / Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley / Kill The Noise / Donavon Frankenreiter / Molotov / Tinariwen / Astro / Matanza / Esteman / Pedropiedra / Camila Moreno / Atom / Fernando Milagros / Quique Neira / Maxi Trusso / Ritmo Machine / Jorge Gonzalez / Farmacos / MKRNI / Portavoz / Marineros / CHINOY / Congreso / Miss Garrison / Zaturno / Javiera And Los Imposibles / Lumumba / Maria Magdalena / RVSB / Hielo Negro / Mass Mental / Yajaira / DJ Caso / Power Peralta / Manu da Banda / Oh Margot! / Rootz Hi-Fi / Abya Yala / LiLiTS / Dead Christine / Edgar Van De Wingard / Familia Chilenita Del Funk / Afrik Show all bands
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Parque O'Higgins Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile
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Mar 13, 2015
2 Minutos / The Specials / Interpol / The Last Internationale / Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters

Vive Latino

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Foro Sol Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
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Mar 13, 2015 –
Mar 15, 2015
Vive Latino 15
Camilo Séptimo / Siddhartha / Mississippi Queens / Triciclo Circus Band / Genitallica / Catupecu Machu / La Lupita / We Are the Grand / The Specials / Cartel de Santa / Interpol / The Vaccines / Robert Plant / Tropical Forever / A Band of Bitches / Monsieur Perine / Molotov Jukebox / DLD / San Cisco / Lucybell / Brandon Flowers / Cuca / Caifanes / Apocalyptica / Nortec Collective: Bostich + Fussible / Mastodon / The Last Internationale / Corazon Attack / SOJA / Agarrate Catallina / Garbage / Los Angeles Negros / Dave Matthews Band / Die Antwoord / Molotov / Aterciopelados / Enjambre / Babasónicos Show all bands
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Foro Sol Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
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Mar 12, 2015
The Specials
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El Plaza Condesa Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

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 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Jul 19, 1998
 Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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 Saratoga, California, United States
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May 11, 2009
 London, England, United Kingdom
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May 11, 2009
 London, England, United Kingdom
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Jul 10 - 12, 2009
 Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Genres:

Punk
New Wave
Reggae
Britpop
Ska
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Rocksteady
Ska Revival
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Latest Setlist (07/09/2022):

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  1. Freedom Highway
  2. Friday Night, Saturday Morning
  3. Stereotype
  4. The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)
  5. A Message to You Rudy
  6. Do the Dog
  7. Too Much Too Young
  8. Gangsters
  9. Listening Wind
  10. Ghost Town

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Concerts Per Year:

2026 2 concerts
2025 2 concerts
2023 1 concert
2022 18 concerts
2021 27 concerts
2020 3 concerts
2019 88 concerts
2018 5 concerts
2017 30 concerts
2016 37 concerts
2015 7 concerts
2014 25 concerts
2013 45 concerts
2012 21 concerts
2011 33 concerts
2010 33 concerts
2009 57 concerts
2008 6 concerts
2007 4 concerts
2006 1 concert
2003 1 concert
2002 1 concert
2001 6 concerts
2000 4 concerts
1999 4 concerts
1998 96 concerts
1997 17 concerts
1996 36 concerts
1995 4 concerts
1994 28 concerts
1993 2 concerts
1981 16 concerts
1980 70 concerts
1979 66 concerts
1978 14 concerts
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