Pauline will be joining Neville Staple and his band, alongside Jerry Dammers & Rankin' Roger on stage @ the Shepherds Bush Empire on April 5th 2008 & at The Jazz Cafe on 4th September 2008.

Pauline Black is playing 2 summer festival shows in august and september respectively.  Check out this sites Concerts page for further information.

photo: Yad Jaura

Pauline Black is on the front cover of January 2008's issue of 'Blues In Britain' magazine, featuring a full length interview inside about the upcoming tour, where she  will be appearing  with Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band & Eddie Floyd from January - March 2008 on the 'Just Soul Tour'.

JUST SOUL TOUR 2008 PRESS RELEASE

Fresh from the success of the acclaimed BBC 'Soul Britannia series, 'Just Soul, showcases the luminous talents of soul legends Eddie Floyd and Geno Washinton & The Ram Jam Band.  Charismatic singer, award winning actress and 'voice' of the Soul Britannia series, Pauline Black will be opening and compering this celebration of 50 years of soul music

Soul is not just a musical style, it's a deep rooted feeling that is present in all good music, passing like a baton from one generation to the next.

Geno Washington's show-stopping style and breath-taking energy produced two of the biggest  selling albums in the sixties - 'Hand clappin, Foot Stompin, Funky Butt Live' & 'Hipsters, flipster, Finger Popping Daddies'!  In the late 70's, a new generation immortalised his name on record, when young soul pretenders, 'Dexy's Midnight Runners' released the eponymous hit single, 'Geno'.  With his mighty Ram Jam Band, Geno Washington continues to rock the soul of the new Millenium.

Eddie Floyd, best known for his 1966 hit song 'Knock On Wood' ( which he co-wrote with Steve Cropper) worked with and wrote for Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding during the Memphis Soul Music era at Stax Records.  He is a member of the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame and the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.  this pioneering legend of the Stax sound, tirelessly continues to spread the word of soul worldwide.

Pauline Black found fame with 2-Tone Band The Selecter in 1979. The acclaimed 'Queen of Ska', notched up 5 hit singles and 2 gold albums-'Too Much Pressure' & 'Dance Craze'. Since then she has continually expanded her musical repertoire and with the 'Just Soul' tour returns to her first love, sweet soul/reggae music, as showcased on many of the tracks on The Trojan Songbook series Vols 1,2 & 3

THE VERY BEST OF NINA SIMONE & BILLIE HOLIDAY

2007 has found Pauline  taking a sabbatical from The Selecter , while touring a new solo project; an homage to her two life-long idols, Nina Simone and Billie Holiday, with The Blue Jazz Trio entitled 'The Very Best of Nina Simone & Billie Holiday'. The 'Blue Jazz Trio' are Pick Withers (drums: ex-Dire Straits, Bob Dylan), Nigel Portman-Smith (double-bass: ex-Pentangle), Dom Pipkin (Keyboards: ex-Morcheeba).

•  Pauline recently narrated a three part TV series for BBC4  shown in February 2007 and repeated on BBC4 @ 21:00p.m. on 5th and 6th April 2007 called 'Soul Britannia'; episodes 1 & 2 directed by Jeremy Marre, episode 3 directed by Don Letts and hosted and performed in two televised live concerts from the Barbican on 16th & 23rd Feb 2007, featuring Jane Kay, Carroll Thompson, Carol Grimes, Gonzalez, Average White Band, Madeline Bell, Linda Lewis, Geno Washington, Jimmy James, Eddie Floyd, Eric Burdon & Solomon Burke. The 'Soul Britannia' live concerts will be repeated on BBC4 @ 23:00p.m. on 5th and 6th April 2007.

• The  documentary series and concerts will be repeated on BBC2 from Friday 20th July 2007.

• Pauline has just finished filming an episode of the second BBC3 series of 'Grownups'  It stars Sheridan Smith of 'Two Pints of Lager and Packet of Crisps' fame and is written by the excellent Susan Nickson, who also wrote 'Two Pints..' Pauline plays the part of Chris's Mum, an extremely unorthodox parent.  

• Pauline is appearing as an interviewee in the BBC4 documentary 'Last Man In Hammersmith Palais' on Christmas Eve 2007 @ 10:10p.m.  Suggs is presenting and narrating the show.

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• BBC Radio 4 'Off The Page' : Pauline returns to

• Pauline will be writing and broadcasting for three Radio 4  programmes in 2007. 

• The first is an episode of 'Great Lives', due to be broadcast  1st May @ 4:30p.m. and repeated on 4th May @ 23:00p.m., with presenter Matthew Parris and author Julia Blackburn.  Under discussion is the life of Billie Holiday. Listen in again @

• www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/greatlives

• The second programme is 'Off The Page' .  It will be Pauline's fifth time  on the programme, due for broadcast on 18th July 2007, in its new 1:00p.m. Wednesday  lunch-time slot and repeated @ 23:00p.m. the following Sunday night.  Under discussion is 'The Zeitgeist'.  Her fellow guests are Toby Young( associate editor of the Spectator and author) and New York satirical pundit and journalist Joe Queenan.

• The third programme is 'Welcome to My World', in which she will be talking to Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, the self styled 'Black Farmer' & Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Chippenham, about his life and work. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 @ 11:00a.m. Sept 3rd 2007.

• Pauline Black is taking part in 'A Good Read', alongside Guardian journalist Marcel Berlins and hosted by Sue Macgregor on BBC Radio 4 on 28th October 2008 @ 4:30p.m, repeated  31st October 2008 @ 23:00p.m.