the reggae thread

[BlackHole2006]

Anyone here listened to Lee Scratch Perry's album with The Orb yet?

Includes this absolute corker:

[pothead pixie]

I love this track, I dont know if this was one of the first to dabble with synthesizers but this is super retro, sorta like SkaProg??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgEJpjsoXdM

Edited October 29, 2012 by pothead pixie

[eFestivals]

there was an article in yesterday's Observer about how all of the old reggae stars absolutely LOVE Clarks shoes .... to the extent that they used to smuggle them into Jamiaca in barrels to avoid import duty.

[eFestivals]

they were also essential mod footwear...desert boots in particular

not sure what relevance that is, if any..? Mods loved ska though, I wonder where the attraction for the shoes comes from

probably the French or Italian kids?

what you're talking about is something VERY different (aside from a music genre having a particular fashion style).

The crap boring Clarks shoes that so many mums made their kids wear in the 70s (me included) were what the big 70s reggae stars wore ... and they loved them so much that they named checked them in songs and stuff (long before name checking fashion items became a normal thing in music).

The article is here:-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/oct/28/clarks-shoes-reggae-jamaica-feature?INTCMP=SRCH

[eFestivals]

it did not start with the desert boot. The 'desert treks' it talks about are not desert boots.

It's talking about the boring black learther Clarks shoes that people like me wore as kids.

And there's no history of name checking desert boots in songs that old. It did not start with desert boots.

Edited October 29, 2012 by eFestivals

[eFestivals]

from the article:

that's an an unreferenced and not-linked-into-the-article-in-any-way mention of desert boots.

There's nothing about desert boots to match the main thust and point of the article.

Unless you're able to show me the songs which talk about Clarks desert boots?

[eFestivals]

che?

it's a reference to desert boots from the article, which states that it was the desert boot that started it

it does. But then provides nothing to back that up ... while a VERY different treatment was given by those reggae stars to the normal bland black Clarks.

People wore desert boots. But nothing of that fact of people in general wearing them puts them at the heart of reggae and reggae stars.

I'm merely pondering the connection between Jamaican youth cultures and the mod fashion

which is nothing of what that article is about. It's not on about youth culture, it's very specifically on about the culture of reggae performers.

There might be links between Jamaican youth cultures and the mod fashion, but there's no links between Jamaican reggae stars culture and mod culture.

[eFestivals]

I've just discovered that these forums change a link to an mp3 into a nifty little embedded mp3 player ... like this...

http://dionysus.efestivals.co.uk/neil/Jazterpiece.mp3

[eFestivals]

jut stumbled across this on YouTube - this show at WOMAD was my live introduction to the most excellent Dennis Bovell, and it was one of the most stunning live sets I've seen by any band.

This video doesn't do it full justice, but it's superb all the same

Edited November 8, 2012 by eFestivals

[si_t]

some good reggae on tongiht in Bristol - at the Attic bar.

Resonators album launch with Dub from atlantis too.

Not sure if this is what this reggae thread is for, but I felt the need to tell somebody - and this seems as good a place as any.

[eFestivals]

that's definitely what this thread is for.

There's also Black Roots playing at the Malcolm X Centre tomorrow night.

And because we're talking Bristol, it's just under a month until The Twinkle Brothers & Joshua Moses play at Trinity .... I'm really looking forwards to that one! I'm hoping that they'll be a big crowd so that Joshua puts a smile on his face and puts in a great set; I love his album, but by gawd he was poor at the Fleece back in May.

[5co77ie]

Rodigan resigns over reggae 'marginalisation'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20443620

[eFestivals]

Rodigan resigns over reggae 'marginalisation'

http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-20443620

presumably he left Capital (where he was before Kiss) for much the same reason - I used to love listing to his shows back in the 70s.

There's just Don Letts now on a major radio station who is playing a genre that's very much on the up at the moment, which just goes to show that numbskuls are in charge of radio stations.

[Chas]

I used to listen to Nick Manasseh's Kiss FM show in the 90s and that occupied the late Saturday night Sunday morning slot. If it wasn't for the fact that I was in IT support and often had to work overnight Saturday implementing changes, I would never have become aware of his show and would have missed out on some cracking Reggae & Dub. I much preferred Nick's show on Kiss to Rodigan's, but having said that, Rodigan's early Radio London shows introduced me to Reggae in a big way during my last year at school and at around the same time Robbie Vincent's Saturday Soul Show on Radio London was opening up my musical tastes to Soul and Funk and I have him to thank for me sending off for tickets to see Parliament Funkadelic at Hammersmith Odeon in 1978

[eFestivals]

oh man, my summer has just been made .... Marley's in the area.

[5co77ie]

In Europe this summer

Edited March 15, 2013 by 5co77ie

[timespeedsup]

Any suggestion of Israel Vibration playing UK then?

[eFestivals]

Any suggestion of Israel Vibration playing UK then?

there's a link (which is what put Scott onto the name) with someone Glastonbury, which suggests perhaps there.

[timespeedsup]

Well that's a bit painful, seeing as I'll not be at Glasto. The Beeb's Tv coverage better catch them. One for West Holts.

[grumpyhack]

Any suggestion of Israel Vibration playing UK then?

I think they'd better Talk to Frank - the most irritating ad I've ever encountered. When mum rears her head it's a race to shut her up before "Sit down son..."

[eFestivals]

One for West Holts.

i'm thinking more likely in The Gully, but perhaps you'll be right.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

bumping this in honour of Neil's departure.

Not an Adele fan at all, but came across Reggaesta today, love some of his reggae/dub versions of stuff, Adele included, this one's great though:

[eFestivals]

damn damn damn ... three of the Marley boys finally come to the UK for a festival show for the first time in years AND to all play together (as Ghetto Youths International).... and I'm already committed to be elsewhere ..... Noooooooooooo!

[5co77ie]

Any suggestion of Israel Vibration playing UK then?

They're supporting Julian Marley on his European tour dates apparently

with Capleton - who are listed here - http://www.reggaeville.com/nc/artist-details/artist/capleton/dt/-44d98d7973/ac/date.html for Boomtown./

Edited August 7, 2013 by 5co77ie

[eFestivals]

Junior Murvin snuffed it the other day.

Everyone knows Police & Thieves, but show he's not a one-song man, The Guardian recommended these as the proof.....

Edited December 4, 2013 by eFestivals