Monday · 27 dispatches
Presented by Jamaican music aficionado, this show features two hours of ska, rock steady and reggae gems from the 60s, 70s and 80s that have either never previously seen issue or have remained unavailable on any format since their original release!
"We are thrilled to unveil the first Linton Kwesi Johnson release in more than twenty years (!): a very limited edition “dub plate” 10 inch to celebrate the release of Dread Beat an Blood! Dread Beat an Dub/Five Nights of Dub: four BRAND NEW dubs mixed live by @dennisbovell of t…
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2 album reviews in NME dated 19th July, 1980...
“ROCKERS' SOUNDS 'CROSS TOWN! HE ARRIVES at the Music Works office in Kingston quietly, on foot, no entourage, no Toyota Turbo. Anyone accustomed to the gold-teeth and coke-spoon variety of reggae supa might walk straight past this thin, unassuming dread in the brown chords and earthman shoes. Augustus Pablo belies the contemporary myth that you have to wear leatherette trousers to make good music. Music Works producer Gussie Clarke lends us his back office for the interview. We clos”
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2 album reviews in NME dated 19th July, 1980...
Big news! Just reissued on its original label (Ariwa), the 1983 "Yard Style" LP by Johnny Clarke. This is easily one of his best albums and one I personally have been longing for!
“INTERVIEW DEAN FRASER VK 11/2004 Dean, you've been at it for so long already that it's hard for people to remember your roots. Could you tell us how you got started in the music business? Dean Fraser: "I started to play in what you call a top-ten-band. We played dance-music and it was something like a hotel-band. So we used to play hotels and we used to do weekend-dances for private functions or private clubs. The band was called The Sonny Bradshaw Seven, a very popular band in Jamaica at th”
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Bob Marley featured in the Oakland Tribune (California) dated July 8, 1975...
Reggae Sunsplash review in NME dated July 21st, 1979...
“BOB ANDY AT OPEN TROPEN - 30 JUNE 1990 interviewed by Marc Hutsebaut for Etna Magazine, Belgium originally published in Flemish - thanks to Marc for his permission to publish the English transcript of this interview. How did you get involved in music? Wow, I'd have to think about that ? church is probably my best answer. I went to many churches as a child, because at various times I lived with various members of my family, so whatever member I lived with, I went to that church. But the o”
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Bob Marley & The Wailers poster in Smash Hits magazine dated July 10-23, 1980...
DADDY KOOL featured in Music Week dated July 9, 1977...
The SKA Is Here - Gazette Telegraph (Colorado Springs) dated July 11, 1964...
“Culture's ALBERT WALKER INTERVIEW BY JIM DOOLEY FEBRUARY 7, 1997 Observant fans will know there is more to Culture than frontman Joseph Hill. In fact, it was Albert Walker's idea to form the group some 21 years ago. In this interview Albert updates what is happening in the Culture camp as well as giving us the early scoop on his solo project. I spoke with Albert, who was in Orlando, over the telephone (please Bell, go easy on me) as Culture were in the middle of a mini-tour of Florida”
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Fred Locks interview in the July 1982 edition of Black Music & Jazz Review...
2 adverts in Sounds dated July 14, 1979...
“From Treasure Isle To NYC I used to hang around at Treasure Isle with Prince Buster. Although I used to listen to plenty of Studio One, I used to go anywhere that Coxsone used to go; you had King Stitt and Count Matchuki. I grow up on Studio One and Treasure Isle. What year was this? It had to be 64/65, I went to America in 1967. We know about the tune that you done with Prince Buster. There was two, one was called While I Was Walking. How old were you when you voiced that tune? Im not”
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2 adverts in NME dated July 15th, 1978...
ASWAD advert in NME dated 17th July, 1982...
Bob Marley & The Wailers advert in NME dated July 16th, 1977...
“If you would make an attempt at telling the story in some format of Jamaican music in its initial stage, you wouldn't pass without mentioning a place called Randy's; founded by a local entrepreneur named Vincent Chin, Randy's was a studio, a distribution outfit and a popular record store situated at North Parade in Kingston, simply THE center of musical creativity in the music's most vital period from the late sixties to the mid seventies. It was here Lee Perry recorded the famous 'Soul Rebe”
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2 adverts in NME dated 18th July, 1981...
2 adverts in The Daily Gleaner dated July 20, 1968...
Keith Hudson: Melody Maker, 2CD Edition - bringing together many of his finest productions from the golden age of Jamaican music.
I'm so happy that my younger brother Paul will be with me at Supernova! He is a real music lover and he is the writer of many songs that I have recorded. I am hoping he will join me on stage for a...
Laurence Cane-Honeysett showcasing 2 hours of Doctor Bird's classic ska, rock steady and reggae sounds.
