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Selecter's Pauline Black on her love of the Bay City Rollers, her Scottish connections and her unique take on a Glasgow fish supper
14.04.2023 - 13:43 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Pauline Black, one of 2 Tone’s founders, hasn’t forgotten playing Scotland for the first time – because of an embarrassing encounter with a fish supper.
The Selecter’s Romford-born singer has since found out she has a Scottish family and was a Bay City Rollers fan in the 70s.
Pauline, 69, whose birth father was Nigerian, was born Belinda Magnus and was adopted by a white family.
She went to study in Coventry and trained as a radiographer working in the NHS before joining The Selecter in 1979 who, with The Specials and Madness, started the ska revival movement.
The three bands went on tour in 1979, with Stirling University their first Scots date. Pauline said: “I don’t remember that gig. I do remember playing the following night, November 11, at Tiffany’s in Glasgow.
“The Glasgow gig was magical, everything about Glasgow felt different, the way people talked, the stone the buildings were made of, the love of fans.
“Amazing place and it still is. It’s always one of my favourite places to play.
“I remember asking for fish and chips at a takeaway the first time I went and the guy said, “Yer wan a fish supper?” And I stupidly said, ‘No, I want chips as well.’
“That conversation went on for a while until a kind local tapped me on the shoulder and explained what a fish supper meant. Everybody in the queue laughed.”
Pauline has since found out she has a Scottish connection. She explained: “I was adopted when I was 18 months old but I traced my birth mother at 42 and discovered an aunt who had married a Hamilton, with a broad Glaswegian accent, in Australia.
“I’ve since met the extended Hamilton family of my newfound uncle, who live not too far from Glasgow.” It’s perhaps not surprising she has a love of Scotland given she was a
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