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Event review
Tighten Up with Gladdy Wax, Saturday 2 September @ Catch, LONDON.
Tighten Up is a night which has been running in London town for around the past six years. It is run by Dance Crasher in association with Trojan Sound and features...
Event review
Notting Hill Carnival, 27-28 August, LONDON.
The Notting Hill Carnival (27-28 August), London, is one of the world’s biggest street festivals and takes place every year in celebration of Caribbean culture, music and history. For a period of...
Album review
Big ups to DJ Misteek for this album review of Ziggy Marley's Love Is My Religion
"Reggae music is simple music--but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, then people will be drawn...
Event review
Culture, 24 August @ The Jazz Cafe, LONDON.
The reggae community worldwide has been shocked and deeply saddened to hear about the recent passing away of legendary vocalist, Joseph Hill. Hill was a true pioneer and an incredibly...
Event review
Jah Shaka, 18 August/23 August @ The Coronet + @ The Maritime Museum, LONDON.
UK reggae and soundsystem culture is such an influential and important part of the reggae scene worldwide, and what better way to have my first experience of it...
Event review
Channel One, 20 August @ The Walthamstow Festival, LONDON.
Channel One have been residents at the Walthamstow Festival for the last three years and occupy a side-street in the heart of the festival area. Channel One visited New...
Event review
Shashamane Sound, 17 August @ Club Gigi, AMSTERDAM.
This was my first taste of reggae in Amsterdam so it was with a sense of curiosity that I entered Club Gigi. The club was located in an area of town a little away from the main...
Album review
Big ups to Don Luchito for his review of Homegrown Dub.
As far back as 1967 Jamaican Sound
Systems have sought after what they considered to be an ‘exclusive’ or a
‘special’. Back then, these rarities, were...
Event review
Ghetto Red Hot, 28 July @ Tupelo, WGTN.
Oh yes. GRH III proved yet another
memorable night delivered by the Rhys B-Art- Kerb combo (three amigos you don’t
wanna miss), complete with a red-hot dancing girl in red-hot boots and...
Event review
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Dub + Budspells and The Mighty Asterix, 22 July @ Union Hall, WGTN.
To be
perfectly honest I thought the promotion leading up to this event was pretty
sloppy and last minute - sure they had some huge posters out and about...