The gig was held at London’s Scala last night (Sunday May 17) and organised by Artists for Gaza as a way to again raise funds for the Health Workers 4 Palestine’s Gaza Medics Solidarity Fund. That initiative aids in the rebuilding of maternity wards in Gaza, as well as funding mobile clinics and paying stipends to Gazan medics – visit here to donate and find more information.
Artists confirmed as taking part were Paul Weller, Madness, Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream), Jerry Dammers (The Specials), Glen Matlock (The Sex Pistols), and Kevin Rowland (Dexys Midnight Runners), as well as Gilles Peterson, Roxy Music saxophonist Andy Mackay, Simon Bartholomew (The Brand New Heavies), and Clive Langer.
Held last night, the show saw Weller, Rowland, Matlock, McKay, and Langer come together with Madness’ Suggs, Lee Thompson, Bedders and Barso to form a one-night-only supergroup called ‘The Scala Band’.
Together, they performed Bread’s ‘Everything I Own’, the 1982 anti-war song ‘Shipbuilding’, and Madness tracks ‘Our House’, ‘My Girl’, ‘Madness’ and ‘The Harder They Come’.