Yes lemans Don Christie Records. They also had a stall in the Bull Ring.
I was born in Small Heath.
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hi dread, small world, I am talking late 70s for don christies . I forgot a early album I loved, tighten up vol 2 got a 180 gram copy few years ago, god that took me back when I put it on ,everybody used to walk round with a copy of that under there arm when I was at school
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My family moved to the south coast around 1968.
I used to mostly travel up to Ladbroke Grove Dub Vendor or their Clapham Junction market stall. The original Dub Vendor Record Shack outside Ladbroke Grove tube was always an unforgettable experience, latterly the Dub Vendor shop on Lavender Hill Clapham Junction sadly no more, but Dub Vendor continues as a mail order outlet. Check them out.
And a visit to Don Christie’s at the Bull Ring was always essential whenever returning to Brum visiting relatives.
Ah Memories!
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Fat Freddys Drop should have been coming to the UK this year. They have a new album forthcoming
Really enjoyed kicking back with a couple of beers n ting last night watching this marvellous show from Rototom 2018.
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Happy 420…
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Monty Alexander and Ernie Ranglins Jamaican “Jazz” collaborations always worth checking, heres a newly released digital download from Sly n Robbie
the late 1970s, Kingston was in the midst of a transformation. The ghetto population, brutalized, cowering behind locked gates during the internecine warfare of the decade, had had enough. Gunshots, street battles, homemade bombs be damned, the population was sick of the politics, sick of the violence and ready to move on. Slowly, but surely, the dancehalls, all but shuttered during the 1970s were returning to life. In those open lawns and sweaty clubs where draws of weed were sold by the handful, a cold Heineken battled the heat and the girls were ready to rock their hips in a rub a dub style the quasi-mystical, mathematically complex sound of roots and dub ceded to more earth-bound concerns. A host of new singers and DJs flocked to the sound systems with lyrics and style that spoke to the dancehall itself. This new breed of “rub a dub soldier” eschewed the international market, and spoke to Jamaicans in their own language, about their own concerns from sex to humor to the day-to-day problems of suffering in the ghetto. A new sound was needed and the spare, uncompromising music of the Roots Radics, bolstered equally by the mixing prowess of Scientist and the financial shenanigans of Henry “Junjo” Lawes, came to the rescue. With a tuff as nails drum and bass soundtrack, the Roots Radics, almost overnight, became the number one band for Jamaican recordings.
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I’m loving the Reggae Roast Never B4 video, great fun n vibes.
It will be on Reggae Roasts debut 2xLP soon come on Trojan records
Enjoying the new Jah9, contemporary roots n culture from JA. Also features Chronixx, Akala,Pressure Busspipe,Taurus Riley
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Also enjoying the latest from New Zealands Fat Freddys Drop. A “Reggae” band that incorporates wide ranging influences;
Special Edition Part 1
“The Detroit techno-influenced musings of ‘Trickle Down’, the Steely Dan swagger of ‘Raleigh Twenty’ and the sunset Balearic bliss of ‘Six Eight Instrumental’”
