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Category Archives: Deep stuff
WORD SOUND & POWER: The Exhibition
WORD SOUND & POWER: Reggae Changed My Life. As Black History month approaches I have to wonder why I’m struggling to get people around the nation to host the exhibition that Swift & I put together at the British Music … Continue reading
GARIFUNA COLLECTIVE ARRIVE IN LONDON SEPT 28th
THE GARIFUNA COLLECTIVE arrive in London on September 28th at The Nest Collective armed with a new album ‘Ayó’. Six years have elapsed since the release since Andy Palacio & The Garifuna Collective’s 2007 masterpiece ‘Wátina’ and it’s taken that … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Ayó, 'Wátina', Andy Palacio, Belize, Ceilidh Liberation Front., Cumbancha, Garifuna Collective, Ivan Duran, Nest Collective, Netil House, Paranda, Paul Nabor, Stonetree
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DON DRUMMOND: Genius and Tragedy
‘Don Drummond: The Genius and Tragedy of the World’s Greatest Trombonist’ is a brand new book that gets to grips with the tragic life of the legendary Skatalites trombonist. Scanning through a catalogue of forthcoming books from McFarland, a US … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Don Drummond: The Genius and Tragedy of the World's Greatest Trombonist', Alpha Boys School, Anita Mahfood, Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd, Count Ossie, Don Drummond, Heather Augustyn, Jamaica, Margarita, Rhumba, Rico Rodrigues, Ska, Skatalites, Studio One
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The Stuart Hall Project
The Stuart Hall Project: a Smoking Dogs film about revolution, politics, culture and the New Left experience is in cinemas 6 September Highly acclaimed at this year’s Sundance and Sheffield Documentary festivals, the new film from Smoking Dogs’ award-winning documentarian … Continue reading
MARTIN LUTHER KING & THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON
MARTIN LUTHER KING & THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON is another magical film from the Hackney based Smoking Dogs. Directed by Jon Akomfrah this evocative and historically illuminating documentary celebrates the pivotal moment in modern history when the the Civil Rights … Continue reading
ALMOST SOLD OUT! Michael Garrick’s ‘Prelude to Heart Is A Lotus’
ALMOST SOLD OUT! Michael Garrick’s ‘Prelude to Heart Is A Lotus’ Just spotted this picture on Sebastian Scotney’s London Jazz bulletin of Gearbox Records’ Adam Sieff proudly holding a copy of the Michael Garrick Sextet’s ‘Prelude to Heart Is A … Continue reading
Nothern Soul meets Stereophonic-Supply
Nothern Soul meets Stereophonic-Supply As Swifty and myself originally hail from the industrial North and had our own respective experiences of the Northern Soul scene we decided to design a tee which tips a nod to those who’ve kept the … Continue reading
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Tagged Elaine Constantine, Keep The Faith, Mods, northern soul, Swifty, www.stereophonic-supply.co
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NEXUS-ONE WORLD MUSIC: What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglas’ famous speech ‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’ provides the theme to the next Nexus – One World concert at St George’s Bloomsbury. The monthly Jazz Warriors International/Nexus – One World concerts at St George’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Adriano Adewale, Bonnie Greer, Cleveland Watkiss, Frederick Douglas, Jazz warriors International, Lizzie Ball, Louis Armstrong, Nexus - One World, Robert Mitchell, Rowland Sutherland, St George's Bloomsbury, What To The SLave Is The Fourth Of July
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JAZZ WARRIORS INTERNATIONAL celebrates the life of EMILY WILDING DAVISON
THIS THURSDAY at St George’s Bloomsbury THE JAZZ WARRIORS INTERNATIONAL/Nexus celebrates the life of suffragette EMILY DAVISON – an unrepentently militant activist who, on June 4th 1913, stepped onto the racetrack at the Epsom Derby with the intention of disrupting … Continue reading
‘FREE ANGELA and All Political Prisoners!’: A Film by Shola Lynch
‘FREE ANGELA and All Political Prisoners!’ Fanny Feeny and her daughter Coco ventured to a small cinema in Paris in search of a legend from the past. Despite being busy touting her own film projects and marking university exam papers … Continue reading
