Artist Carrie Reichardt at Pool Meadow - Video and audio transcripts

Hi, I'm Carrie Reichardt and I'm responsible for ska'd for life the new ceramic installation at Pool Meadow bus station. I made this over a four-month period with a team of artists in london and it was a real honour to make something that celebrated all of the wonderful cultural and musical history of coventry we included over 90 stars that were made by local school children which was incredible to do during a COVID time all of these stars were made by the frederick bird primary school and the others were made by saint mary's and saint benedict's catholic church where they were made over a day with the kids they all got to decide what they wanted on their special stars and it was really fantastic to be able to include local school children's finished work in the completed mural really important for me to be able to put the history of two-tone into context and to be able to explain how incredibly important coventry was for promoting a form of music that was all about being multi-racial and about black and white people coming together and celebrating music and so if you look at all the detail I've really tried to put the story of two tone into some political and social context I've also included stuff that refers to all other kind of the music that comes before two-tone the punk and all of the old fanzines and the community groups and the kind of subculture that comes behind and in front of all of this amazing history