A tale from history The Specials My friend Carl, from Jersey (Channel Islands), bought himself and me tickets to see The Specials on May 6th 2009. Carl flew over the day before and stayed at our house so that we could drive to Exeter to get the train to London do a bit of shopping, have some food then go and dance like nutters for a couple of hours then go home. That didn’t happen. Instead we got as far as the going to the gig part only to find, on arrival, it had been cancelled, Terry had a sore thumb or something. So, the nice friendly bouncers (weird I…