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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
American ska-core band from Boston
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Dance Hall Crashers
Dance Hall Crashers
band
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Ruder Than You
Ruder Than You
American ska band
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Voodoo Glow Skulls
Voodoo Glow Skulls
American band
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Bad Manners
Bad Manners
British 2-tone ska band
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Skankin' Pickle
Skankin' Pickle
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BeNuts
BeNuts
band
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Gwar
Gwar
American heavy metal band known for its stage costumes and satirical sci-fi themes
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Hog Hoggidy Hog
Hog Hoggidy Hog
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Spring Heeled Jack
Spring Heeled Jack
third wave ska band based out of New Haven, Connecticut
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The Pietasters
The Pietasters
band
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Less Than Jake
Less Than Jake
ska punk band from Gainesville, Florida
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Deal's Gone Bad
Deal's Gone Bad
American band
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Stephen Jackson
Stephen Jackson
American musician
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Subb
Subb
band
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Buck-O-Nine
Buck-O-Nine
band
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Spike
Spike
British musician
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GOGO13
GOGO13
musical artist
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The Specials
The Specials
British 2-Tone ska band
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Big D and the Kids Table
Big D and the Kids Table
Band from the USA
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Mephiskapheles
Mephiskapheles
American ska band
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Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
Japanese ska band (1985-)
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Neville Staple
Neville Staple
English rock musician
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Fishbone
Fishbone
U.S. alternative rock band
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Let's Go Bowling
Let's Go Bowling
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King Django
King Django
American musician
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The Aquabats
The Aquabats
American rock band
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Dungeon
Dungeon
Australian band
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The Wonder Stuff
The Wonder Stuff
British alternative rock band
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Victims of Circumstance
Victims of Circumstance
musical artist
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Mad Caddies
Mad Caddies
American band
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The Beat
The Beat
British band
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Peter Kember
Peter Kember
British musician
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Lagwagon
Lagwagon
American punk rock band
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The Screaming Jets
The Screaming Jets
australian hard rock band
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D. C. Cooper
D. C. Cooper
American musician
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Paul Di'Anno
Paul Di'Anno
English heavy metal singer
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Dead or Alive
Dead or Alive
British band
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Street Dogs
Street Dogs
US band
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Hard-Ons
Hard-Ons
band that plays punk rock
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Garmarna
Garmarna
Swedish folk-rock band
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Frenzal Rhomb
Frenzal Rhomb
band
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Save Ferris
Save Ferris
American ska punk band from Orange County, California
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Vic Ruggiero
Vic Ruggiero
musician, songwriter and producer from New York City
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Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
American swing and ska band
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Ranking Roger
Ranking Roger
British musician, songwriter
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Lush
Lush
band
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Fireballs
Fireballs
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Sublime
Sublime
American ska punk band
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The Skatalites
The Skatalites
Jamaican ska band
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Pete Wylie
Pete Wylie
English singer-songwriter
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Greg Hetson
Greg Hetson
American musician
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Scream
Scream
American band
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The Toasters
The Toasters
American ska band
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Martyn P. Casey
Martyn P. Casey
musician
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Doom
Doom
crust punk band
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Salad
Salad
band
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Rage
Rage
German heavy metal band
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Extreme
Extreme
American rock band
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Royal Hunt
Royal Hunt
Danish progressive metal band
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Jackson United
Jackson United
band
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Total Chaos
Total Chaos
band
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Stephen Street
Stephen Street
British record producer, songwriter
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NOFX
NOFX
American punk rock band
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Go Jimmy Go
Go Jimmy Go
ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul influenced band
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Snuff
Snuff
British punk rock band
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The Business
The Business
band that plays Oi!
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Ammonia
Ammonia
music band
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Dread Zeppelin
Dread Zeppelin
American rock band
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The Scofflaws
The Scofflaws
band
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U.K. Subs
U.K. Subs
English punk band
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Gorefest
Gorefest
Dutch metal band
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Phil Judd
Phil Judd
New Zealand musician
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Climax Blues Band
Climax Blues Band
British blues rock band
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Agathocles
Agathocles
band
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Jesse Pintado
Jesse Pintado
mexican
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Dave Evans
Dave Evans
Australian singer
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The Casualties
The Casualties
American street punk band
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Raven
Raven
English heavy metal band
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Kate Pierson
Kate Pierson
American singer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist
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The Porkers are an Australian ska punk band from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

Formed in 1987 as The Pork Hunts, the band was eventually forced to change its name to the less offensive-sounding The Porkers in 1990 after their regular Newcastle venue refused to present them under their old name. Because of this, their first release was the 1990 EP entitled Tired of Being Pork Hunts, which reached No. 6 on the Australian independent charts.

In 1994, their debut album Grunt! received rave reviews and entered the American market through Moon Ska Records. The album was a mixture of studio and live tracks, and included covers of Devo's Mongoloid and Radio Birdman's Aloha Steve and Danno.

The Porkers have toured extensively throughout Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Germany and Japan (a live album recorded in Japan was released in 2004). In Australia, they have supported groups such as No Doubt, Fishbone, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Rancid.

After over twenty years, there have been numerous changes in The Porkers’ line-up, but two of the original members are still in the band: frontman Pete Porker, and Bigfil on saxophone.

After a five-year hiatus (2009-2014), The Porkers returned in 2014 with a fresh line-up after being invited to play the Soundwave festival tour by A.J. Maddah. They opened the main stage in every city.

In 2018, Pete Porker suffered a stroke, but shortly thereafter resumed duties on stage with the band.