On 8 May 2017, The Beat was a guest on The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show w/ Charlie Bones. The Beat has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 29 episodes and was first played on 12 July 2013.

The English two-tone ska band The Beat, known as The English Beat in North America and The British Beat in Australia.

The band were founded in Birmingham, England, in 1978. Their music fuses ska, pop, soul, reggae and punk rock. The Beat, consisting of Dave Wakeling (vocals, guitar), Ranking Roger (vocals), Andy Cox (guitar), David Steele (bass), Everett Morton (drums), and Saxa a.k.a. Lionel Augustus Martin (1930 – 2017) (saxophone), released three studio albums in the early 1980s: I Just Can't Stop It (1980), Wha'ppen? (1981) and Special Beat Service (1982).