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While I’m on a scarecrow tip… wicked write up for it at DJ mag. Great to see tBD getting some recognition for their stuff!

Martin was boxing up the vinyl versions of the Black Dog’s BRILLIANT new album Radio Scarecrow earlier this week. That’s right – it turns out there’s a vinyl pressing of it too!!! Not many though – if you haven’t purchased already you are probably out of luck. I think mine is reserved… 🙂 some of those tracks are VERY mixable.

History is made at night: Night Haunts
‘Prayer is the true language of the night. It is the sound of London’s heart beating. The sound of individuals walking alone in the dark’.

Neil Transpontine in fine form reviewing “Night haunts: a journey through the London Night” by Sukhdev Sandhu…

Bass Science are playing a rare London gig – they’re based based in Tokyo and LA so don’t come to London much. Worth a look in because they make really excellent heavy dub electronics. Check out their myspace page.

London is Free: Flomotion Live – Little Dragon And Bass Science
Bass Science are Tokyo-based MattB (RaNDom) and LA-based Steve Nalepa who specialise in low end , deep pocket rhythms, crunchy distortion, glitchy mouth percussion, blips, bleeps and a heavy dose of dub delay!

The event is taking place on Thursday April 17th from 7pm to 1am.

Gwaan Dave!

The problem with white reggae has always been that reggae depends for its force on its context: the rich rock insider’s take on I Shot the Sheriff can never really capture the intensity of a song about struggling for freedom and killing a policeman. Then there’s the perpetually thorny issue of white performers co-opting the culture of a historically oppressed minority.

All of which makes it surprising that there is a new crop of white reggae performers, eschewing the melanin-deficient basslines and embarrassing attempts at patois that have caught out their predecessors. These artists even market themselves not to the crossover market but to hardcore reggae fans – including those in Jamaica. Maybe, finally, there is white reggae that is more than a pale imitation of the real thing.

Been too busy with, well, stuff to actually announce this on the blog! It’s huge, it’s fat, it’s great – Woofah 2. Now 64 pages of ad-free niceness – which is the equivalent of 100+ pages of most magazines. Small pages, mind. Please buy direct from us at www.woofahmag.com. We make a lot more money that way and we have to sell a few hundred to be able to do the next one! HUGE thanks to everyone who made it possible, especially droid for spending three months designing it and John Eden for spending even longer organising it, but also the brilliant band of writers, photographers and illustrators who have been so generous with their talent. It’s a rush.

Now on to issue three… soon come and already PACKED with great interviews!

Tom Lea has done an interview with me for FACT magazine about the forthcoming album, Belief is the Enemy. It’s up here.

so it was half-term this week in sheffield so I took the family on a trip to glasgow, broke my arm, came back and promptly got a stomach bug, hence the semi-random blogging today…