English Beat Credit: Photo by Jay Gilbert
Last year, new wave ska band The English Beat was supposed to do a co-headlining tour with The Fixx and stop at the Cap in downtown Clearwater.

For reasons unknown, the Beat pulled out weeks beforehand, and was replaced by Texas-based Fastball, moving The Fixx up to the headlining spot.

Luckily, fans of the band that gave them the widely-associated-with-Ferris-Bueller song “March of the Swivel Heads” have a chance for redemption on Monday, back at the Cap in downtown Clearwater.

No support will be present, and with most of the original lineup dead, there hasn’t been any new music from The Beat in over 40 years.

This article appears in Mar 10-16, 2022.

Josh Bradley is Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's calendar editor. He started as a freelance music writer in 2020 at the age of 18, and after spending years covering, announcing, and previewing concerts in...