THE LEGENDARY frontman from The Specials will be skanking in Carlisle come next year. 

Neville Staple, known as The Original Rude Boy, will be celebrating over 40 years of an incredible music career at Carlisle's Old Fire Station on February 24. 

Celebrating the birth of the two-tone ska movement, The Original Rude Boy will be performing classics from The Specials, Fun Boy Three, Special Beat, Judge Roughneck, Rude Rebels, including tracks like Ghost Town and A Message To You Rudy. 

Tickets are set to go on sale this Friday at 10.30am, September 15.

Tickets are priced at £24.50. 

Dig out your braces and pork pie hats because this event is not to be missed.