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BEYOND THE BASSLINE: 500 Years Of Black British Music
The Award Winning British Library publication which was released in a hardback format to coincide with widely acclaimed exhibition is now available as a paperback!! What’s in this book? Edited by myself, in consultation with the exhibition curators, Aleema Gray … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Culture, Deep stuff, Follytricks!, Is That Jazz?, Just Runnings, music, Sound & Power, Urban runnings..., Words, Sound & Power
Tagged Afrobeats, Ambrose Adeyoka Campbell, Bamboo Club, Benjamin Zephaniah, Billy waters, Blues, Bristol, Britain, British Library, Cleo Laine, Derek walcott, George Bridgetower, gospel, grime, Hip Hop, Jah Shaka, Jazz, Joe Harriott, John Blanke, Jungle, Ken 'Snakehips'Johnson, Kitch, Little Simz, Liverpool, Londo, London Lagos Accra, lovers rock, Neneh Cherry, Notting Hill Carnival, Pauline Black, R&B, Rastafari, Reggae, Roaring Twenties, Sancho, Selectert, Shirley Bassey, Sir Coxsone . Sound System, Slavery, Soho, Sonny Roberts, Soul II Soul, Southern Syncopated Orchestra, Steel Pan, Stormzy, Straight No Chaser, The Beatles, The Cavern, The Marquee, The Reno, Two Tone, UK Garage, West African Rhythm Brothers, Windrush
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Vivien Goldman: Rebel Musix – Scribe On A Vibe
Let’s take a deep dive into the ‘Collected Works’ of celebrated music journo, feminist, roots radic and professor of punk First , let me say this, in the world of music journalism Vivien Goldman is a one-off. I myself entered … Continue reading
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Tagged Ari Up, Aswad, Bob Marley & The Wailers, CAN, Chuck D, Don Letts, Eno, Fela Kuti, Feminism, Grace Jones, Hip Hop, Island Records, Jamaica, Ladbroke Grove, music, Music Journalism, Neneh Cherry, New York University, NME, NY New wave, Ornette Coleman, Punk, punk-rock, Raincoats, Reggae, Robert Wyatt, rock, Rutgers, Sex Pistols, Sounds, THE CLASH, The Slits, Vivien Goldman, Youth
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THEY CALLED HIM “FRENCHIE”… Photographer, fellow traveller & friend…. Jean Bernard Sohiez RIP
On the 9th June 2021 my good friend Jean Bernard Sohiez left this world. During the late 70s and early Eighties Jean Bernard and I roamed through the subterranean world of UK sound system and dedicated our words and photography … Continue reading
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Tagged '81 Riots, Dancehall, JA 70s/80s, Jamaica, London, NME, Paris, Photographer, Reggae, Rock & Folk, Roots reggae, Sir Coxsone Outernational, Sound System
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LINDIGO: SOUNDS OF MALOYA meets BRIXTON!
LINDIGO: SOUNDS OF MALOYA @ BRIXTON JAMM Lindigo: “I was born Maloya, I breathe Maloya, I sweat Maloya, I will die Maloya” It’s a balmy September Thursday night and outside the Brixton Jamm on Brixton Road and a modest crowd … Continue reading
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Tagged BMundo, Brazil, Brixton, Daniel Waro, Lindigo, Maloya, Movimientos, Réunion, Reggae, Zouk
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‘BEING BLACKER’: A radical encounter between BAFTA Winning film-maker MOLLY DINEEN and Brixton’s BLACKER DREAD
‘Being Blacker’ is a unique, uncompromising and radical 90 minute documentary and both Molly Dineen and Steve’Blacker Dread’ Martin take to the road to launch the film in a cinema near you prior to it airing on BBC2 on March … Continue reading
A FEW THOUGHTS ON: LEGENDARY UK SOUND MAN LLOYDIE COXSONE TALKS REGGAE MUSIC & DAVID RODIGAN
A FEW THOUGHTS ON: LEGENDARY UK SOUND MAN LLOYDIE COXSONE TALKS REGGAE MUSIC & DAVID RODIGAN First of all I’m not getting into a debate about this interview with Lloydie and his views on Rodigan… so I’m just going to … Continue reading
THE MAN FROM WAREIKA HILLS: RICO RODRIGUEZ 1934 -2015
THE MAN FROM WAREIKA HILLS: RICO RODRIGUEZ 1934 -2015 Always loved this photo of Rico Rodriguez and his daughters by my bredren Jean Bernard Sohiez. Veteran of the legendary Alpha Boys School band and further educated in the camp of … Continue reading
SOON COME! SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE: BRISTOL – The Exhibition
Let’s Go (Yorkshire) is proud to present Sound System Culture: Bristol, a new photographic exhibition celebrating the history of reggae sound systems in Bristol from the 1950s to now. Expect to visit The Bamboo Club, The Dugout, St Paul’s Festival…. … Continue reading
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