#507 :: Live Recording Wednesday :: The Selector Live At The Roundhouse, 2017

Live performance from The Selecter on their Co- Headline tour with The Beat feat Ranking Roger, recorded and filmed at their sold out show at The Roundhouse in London on October 6 2017.

THE SELECTER – LIVE AT THE ROUNDHOUSE – OUT NOW

Live Album on CD, Black & White Splatter Vinyl with Bonus DVD

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First tune in this episode is a new single from Johnny Reggae Rub Foundation called This Is Ska (https://www.facebook.com/JohnnyReggaeRubFoundation/)

1.The Avengers Theme

2.Three Minute Hero

3.Frontline

4.Breakdown

5.Daylight

6.Missing Words

7.Train to Skaville

8.James Bond

9.On My Radio

10.Too Much Pessure / Pressure Drop

11.Carry Go Bring Come / Everyday / Murder / My Collie

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Norman Jay (MBE) Tours Australia and New Zealand Jan/Feb 2017

Norman Jay is unquestionably one of the most respected and popular DJs in the world today. Co-founder of the legendary Good Times Sound System and London dance music station KISS FM, Jay fostered the ‘Rare Groove’ scene pushing the boundaries of the UK’s emerging club culture. Awarded an MBE for services to deejaying and music, he recently compiled his most eclectic compilation to date, ‘Good Times Skank & Boogie’, and is currently taking his legendary Good Times party to selected venues around the UK, continuing to convert generations of clubbers to the cause, championing new sounds, yet never forgetting his musical roots, thus guaranteeing nothing but ‘Good Times’. www.mustardmusic.com.au

Check Jay on tour in Australia and New Zealand over summer.

25 Jan • Coast Port Beach • Perth

26 Jan • Captain Baxter • Melbourne

27 Jan • Sugar • Adelaide

29 Jan • YOT Club • Raglan ($10 from 5pm)

03 Feb • Impala • Auckland

04 Feb • Wanderlust • Lake Taupo

05 Feb • Fat Freddy's Drop • Queenstown

10 Feb • The Island • Sydney

Joining Jay is Byron Bay's, Al Royale.

Al has DJed house music for 25 years in clubs, festivals, outdoor raves and anywhere that will hold a party. He learned the trade among the UK’s free party scene in the East Midlands playing in muddy fields with rows of bass bins and smiling faces. 

His sounds is groovy, funky house and he likes to create something more than the sum of the parts using mixing and selection to get the vibe right. 

Recent DJ highlights include Australia’s Lost Paradise festival, New Years Eve and Falls Festival Byron Bay, New Years Day. 2016 saw him play at Bohemian Beat Freaks Festival, Pollinate Byron Bay, the amazing Nudge Nudge Wink Wink parties, Coco-Republic, Bizarre Garden Festival, Love For Life Festival Cornwall UK and Gallery Sounds in Nottingham.

Al is also the founder of Sounds Good Sound System who with his crew and Funktion One system host parties wherever they can be they on the beach, or in a club and are always looking to bring good vibes and funky underground music. Their own Sounds Good parties in Byron are always sell-out. He is also resident at Coco Republic Byron Bay.

Al’s played clubs in the US, UK and Europe such as The End Up, The Top, Green Gorilla (San Fran), EarthTones Label party (LA), La Marocha (Beunos Airies), The Bomb (Nottingham) and too many muddy fields to mention and has also had a few releases on DiY Discs back in the 90’s and 2000’s. 

Expect current and contemporary funky house music with soulful roots and a few old tunes thrown in.

David 'Ram Jam' Rodigan To Release Book 2nd March 2017

This is the unlikely story of David Rodigan: an Army sergeant's son from the English countryside who has become the man who has taught the world about Reggae. As the sound of Jamaica has morphed over five decades through a succession of different genres - from Ska and Rock Steady, to Dub, Roots and Dancehall - Rodigan has remained its constant champion, winning the respect of generation after generation of Reggae followers across the globe.

Today, at the age of 63, he is a headline performer at almost all the UK's big music festivals, as well as events across the world. Young people revere him and he is a leading presenter on the BBC's youth network 1Xtra as well as a regular fixture at leading nightclubs such as London's Fabric and at student unions throughout the land. And he continues to go into the heartlands of Reggae, to the downtown dancehalls of Kingston and Montego Bay in Jamaica to compete in tournaments against the greatest sound systems.

And yet, for all of this, David Rodigan is the antithesis of the stereotype of an international dance music DJ. 'I look like an accountant or a dentist,' he admitted to The Independent a decade ago. A man of impeccable manners, Rodigan prepares for a big sound clash by retiring to his hotel bed with a Thomas Hardy novel before taking a nap and then a cup of espresso before heading to the club.

Rodigan is the inside story of this apparent paradox. It tells how a boy from Kidlington has become an admired international ambassador for a music form that remains as proud as ever of its African roots, a sound that emanates from and fiercely represents the ghetto poor. He now reaches across the age groups, from teens through to those of his own vintage. At the pinnacle of his career, Rodigan has become the DJ for all generations.

The book will be released 2nd March. 

You can pre-order the book at:

Amazon: http://amzn.to/2iKvckY

Waterstones: http://bit.ly/2jmQ7LF

RODIGAN.COM

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

ISBN: 9781472125576

Pama International Single Release & Trojan Records Tour

Trojan Records in conjunction with (world-famous) The London International Ska Festival continues its long-standing undertaking of presenting the very best in ska, rock steady and reggae sounds with its first UK tour in 4 decades.

Performing live on the tour will be the all-new Pama International, who during their first 10 years recorded 9 albums, played 3 BBCRadio 1 Maida Vale sessions and won the Rebel Playlist on BBC6. Their collective nature saw them work with members of The Specials (Official), Madness, Steel Pulse, Style Council, Galliano, Kasabian, Billy Bragg, Mad Professor, Michieone Michie, Wrongtom and Jamaican legends Derrick Morgan, Dave & Ansel Collins, Dawn Penn, Dennis Alcapone and Rico Rodriguez (musician). Constant touring saw them gig with Madness, The Specials, Toots and the Maytals, Jimmy Cliff, Prince Buster, Mick Jones (The Clash), THIRD WORLD, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Max Romeo, Janet Kay 'Queen of Lovers Rock' and Caroll Thompson to name a few!

Now, with a brand new line-up and after a 7 year hiatus, Pama International return in fine style with their ‘Love & Austerity’ album which sees release this spring on the Record Kicks label and comprises of no less than 8 singles! The group's reworking of Martha Reeves & The Vandellas' soul classic 'Heatwave' has already picked up airplay from BBC1xtra (David 'Ram Jam' Rodigan: “premier rocksteady”), BBC6 Music’s Craig Charles'Funk & Soul show‘Best of 2016’ (“as ever, their productions and taste is faultless”), and of course on GO FEET! Radio where it made the best of 2016 playlist.

Appearing alongside Pama International on the tour will be the ever excellent DJ Mistah Brown (Tighten Up crew) as well as a number of regional guest DJs.

Details are as follows:

TROJAN RECORDS UK tour

13th January: Bristol - The Full Moon & Attic Bar

14th January: Nottingham - The Maze

27th January: Reading - Purple Turtle - free entry

11the February: Leeds - The Wardrobe

11th March: Blaenau-Ffestiniog - Cellb

17th March: Cardiff - The Globe

THE DEAD 60S UK tour

+Pama International support

06 Glasgow O2 ABC 2

07 Sheffield O2 Academy 2

08 Birimingham O2 Institute 2

09 Brighton Concorde 2

13 London Electric Ballroom part of The London Intl Ska Festival 2017 +The Spitfires & more

14 Liverpool O2 Academy

Get along and see them if you can, it'll be an evening of blistering hot ska, rock steady and reggae sounds as they celebrate the most iconic reggae label in the world!