The Uptones | id

Roll the dice and win with South Africa’s top ska-core band LEEK AND THE BOUNCING UPTONES. This four-piece band, based in Pretoria, South Africa, play some of the catchiest, up-beat punk rock ever heard. Mixed with the smooth melodies of the trombone and flowing bass lines LEEK AND THE BOUNCING UPTONES’ original blend of South African music is taking the world by storm. “Armed with a glowingly healthy distrust of any sort of authority figure and a giddy, infectious enthusiasm, the band with straight-forward, horn-driven, ska-influenced punk tunes that waste no time nor metaphor in getting to the point. And...

Formed in 1981 in Berkeley, while they were still in high school. The Uptones were the first band devoted to playing Ska on the West Coast. The Uptones played to skanking crowds all over the West. Several of their recordings were regional hits, and for a time they were the most popular band in the Bay Area. .