De Traces

The Athenians De Traces were the first Greek ska/ reggae band.
They were formed in 1987 by singer / guitar player Alexandros Metaxas, keyboard player Costas Thomaidis and Sakis Belegris.
Actualy, Metaxas was well known to the people who were hanging around to venues such as Sofita at the Plaka district during the early 80’s,
as he was working there.
The following video finds the band to the entrance of An Club (in the heart of Exarhia district) “trying” to convince the bouncer (looks like he must be Louis, singer/guitar player of Stress…) to let them in, once they are playing that night…