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I’m turning into an irritable old bugger…
I’m breaking my recent gig fast next weekend by making a trip over to Bristol and catching the venerable, if barking, reggae legend Lee “Scratch” Perry, his first gigs in this country for a good few years (seven I think).
So I thought I’d put together a little mix of some my favourite tracks by the old nutter and had started work on this. But then having mentioned it to some of the cronies I stand next to at The Home of Rugby, it became clear that everybody has their own Upsetter favourites, and that as his output is just massive, we all knew albums that the others didn’t.
So, anyway, I’m thinking I’ll use the iTunes Genius function to throw up a few random Upsetter gems.
And that’s when it all went pear-shaped…
I won’t go into details, suffice to say a combination of a new computer, lost passwords and bloody iTunes made it all very frustrating… The air was blue…
Anyway, here’s a fairly random Upsetter Lucky Seven, which ideally will introduce you to seven new (and appropriately goofy) insights into the mind of a fine old Jamaican eccentric.
Hold of Death (title track of a 1993 album)
The Dragon Enters (from Kung Fu Meets the Dragon)
Django Shoots First (a single I think, I have it on Bashment)
Santa Clause (from Repentance)
Having a Party (from Scratch Came, Scratch Saw, Scratch Conquered
Black Bat (No idea where from originally, but I have it on an album called Original bass)
Noah Sugar Pan (from Heart of the
Here’s a video of an interview the man did in Austen, which made me chuckle…
Of course, as more than one person has pointed out to me, the whole gig could go very wrong …
Dunno why this post has taken so long to put together (apart from the obvious, that is…)
One of the people that occasionally pops into this eminent organ is a feller who calls himself Devoted Hooligan, and has a damn good blog himself. He recently posted a link to an album called Fandom & Faction which featured local bands and singers. As he is based in
Including this band of groovy folkers...
Babel are five musicians from the
Pearl St Raga is taken from a mini album from 2007 and there is another album released since, called Crooked Timber , both of which are available from Emusic, here, and which I’ll download in the near future. The last release from them seems to be in 2008, but they’re still gigging, as this review from February of this year confirms. I imagine it would be a good evening…
In the meantime, here’s a rather nice video of “Made Your Bed” from YouTube.
There are a few other videos available too, including one for Pearl St Raga, which I can recommend.