The Swinging Cats has been played on NTS in shows including The Guardian Radio Hour, featured first on 4 March 2016. Songs played include Away.

During the height of 80's Ska revival, The Swinging Cats were signed, for a short period, to the 2 Tone label. The line-up changed constantly over the short period the band was in existence (pratically on a weekly basis). For a while there was also a girl on backing vocals, Val, who was going out with Jerry Dammers of The Specials at one point.

The Swinging Cats were a Coventry based Ska band, formed at the end of 1979…