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In 1979 ska enjoyed a renewal of popularity. Initially the ska revival was a UK phenomenon, but gradually it spread to the rest of the world, including Australia. Ska has been in Australia largely since the mid 1980's. Ska at the time took off in Australia, enjoying the same sort of interest as it did in the UK, following the success of UK bands The Specials, The Beat and Madness. Australian ska bands formed quickly from the ever increasing population of Rude Boys and Skinheads. Early ska bands included Sydney bands The Allniters, The Hangovers, Itchy Feet and the Hearn brother band from Melbourne, The Strange Tennants. The allniters were the most high profile of these. The Allniters were an Sydney-based music band that played ska music in the early and mid 1980s. They were best known for a ska-style cover of the Bobby Bloom hit "Montego Bay", followed by the slower and more mainstream "Love and Affection", both of which received wide airplay on radio stations around Australia and were top 40 hits. The Allniters reformed to support reggae band, UB40 in 2004. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The Beat (known in the US as The English Beat) were an essential two-tone/ska revival and pop music group who formed in the Birmingham, UK in 1978 and disbanded in 1983. ... Look up madness in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Allniters were an Sydney-based music band that played ska music in the early and mid 1980s. ... Statue of Ezra Cornell on the Arts Quadrangle at Cornell University, put to use to publicize for Happy Hour. ...

More recent bands include The Porkers, Dr Raju, Addiction 64, Mad not Madness. Area 7 has been one of the more successful bands of late, arising from the ashes of Madness cover band Mad Not Madness. In 1994 three members, Dugald McNaughtan (keyboards), Charles "Chucky T" Thompson (guitar) and Dan Morrison (drums) left the group and began to write their own songs. They formed a band and named it after a lyric from The Specials' Dawning of a New Era. Area-7 (also known as Area 7) is the name of an Australian alternative/third wave ska band. ... Madness are an English pop/ska band from Camden Town, London that formed in 1976. ... // Description Mad Not Madness was a Melbourne Tribute band to the prominent UK ska act Madness played in and around Melbourne from 1991-93. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

There are a number of Australian bands that play with ska/punk influences, and also many ska orientated clubs, in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney.

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