BBC News - UK — The ska legends perform on Later...With Jools Holland and drop Glasto hint. more info

The Mirror — Wednesday morning and we here at Mirror.co.uk’s Showbiz Towers are still fanning ourselves after a few fantastic hours in the presence of greatness last night. more info

Altsounds — The Frontier Touring Company is proud to announce, touring Australia for the very first time, the original lineup of The Specials. Terry Hall (vocals/co-writer), Lynval Golding (rhythm guitar/vocals), Neville Staple (toasting, percussion, back... more info

Undercover, Australia — 30 years after they marked their territory and became the innovators of Ska alongside Madness, The Specials are coming to Australia for the first time. more info

Guardian Music — With the Specials and Madness, the Coventry label launched a musical movement that soundtracked a summer of riots with reggae and ska-influenced popThink we've got it bad now? Thirty years ago, Jim Callaghan's useless Labour government was trounced b... more info

Idolator — In a brilliant bit of marketing genius from the people behind Major League Soccer, the big opening of the 2009 season was scheduled for the first day of the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament, but for the ten people watching the Seattle Sounders thrash... more info

NME — Welcome to the Daily Gossip: your daily stop-off to find out who in the world of music has been up to what. Today's top gossip: Oasis have fared badly in a poll collating the intelligence of music fans. US researcher Virgil Griffith's experiment c... more info

ContactMusic — THE SPECIALS' comeback tour is becoming overshadowed by a feud between frontman TERRY HALL and songwriter JERRY DAMMERS. The pair has been bickering since the reunion ... more info

NME — The Specials' founding member and songwriter Jerry Dammers has said that he has not given up hope of rejoining the band - despite not being part of their reformation line-up. more info

Guardian Music — I wanted to be a part of the reunion tour, but my former bandmates cut me out, says Jerry DammersAlexis Petridis interviewed my former bandmates John Bradbury, Lynval Golding and Terry Hall, who are intending to take part in what they claim to be "Th... more info