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Reggae - April 2007

Freedom Sounds begins its oldies session

April 27th 2007 08:07

This Sunday, the weekly club @ Spectrum on Oxford, Freedom Sounds, will be running an Oldies Session with Firehouse. Firehouse, as mentioned previously, is known for it dancehall and roots dances, but the boys behind it are well known for their great early Jamaican music collection, so they're (finally) doing a dance for us ska, rocksteady and skinhead reggae fans.

$7 will get you in, with the night kicking off at 8 pm.

A month later and you'll have another oldies session. The Signals will be providing the entertainment, launching their CD, Rocking Steady. Free copies will be given for the first 25 or so punters through the door.

Good Sydney reggae times.

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Trojan Records goes digital

April 20th 2007 07:57

I'll be honest, I haven't yet embraced paying to download digital music. I don't use an mp3 player, but many do, so for them, news that Trojan has started to place titles online, on the Itunes store is probably good news.

I know a lot of peer 2 peer sharing of Trojan material takes place, but only now has the company decided to go in this direction. It is about time. No doubt up until now they have missed out on a decent sized market.

Selling an album online must be a pretty good money spinner for a label. Okay it takes time to put the music in the database, but there are no costs in producing albums sleeves or physical vinyl records.

I don't have Itunes, which makes it a little difficult to search through the selection on offer, but from what I can gather, there are about 40 titles available at the moment.

Search for Trojan on Itunes

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Mods Mayday 2007 with poster

April 18th 2007 05:19

It isn't far away, just over two weeks actually, so the promotion train must really begin.

The poster is below. Remember, entry is free, but if you live within 5 km you may have to become a Newtown RSL member for a short price.

Skorch Presents

Mods May 2007 @ Newtown RSL
Starring the Rocksteady Ratpack (members of Club Ska, The Allniters, Backy Skank and The Signals) and The Get Set

With DJs Sara, Toz Riot and Biff Bang.

830 pm start

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Club Ska - a reggae history lesson

April 13th 2007 04:57

If you read the blog earlier this week you'll know a band called The Rocksteady Ratpack will be playing Mods Mayday this year - Saturday May 5th @ Newtown RSL.

Anyway, a number of members were once in a Sydney band called Club Ska. I myself am too young to have seen this band, and I expect not too many of the people reading this will remember them. I did a little digging and found the no-longer updated History of Australia Ska by Tracey.

The Club Ska page tells of a few seven inch releases, the members, but most impressively, the picture below of Pat Patou (Powell?) in a great silve tonic suit.

Make sure you check out Pat as he fronts the band on May 5th.

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My top favourite tunes for the dancefloor

April 12th 2007 12:33

I've been DJing quite a bit lately - for long stints at my own monthly club, Take It or Leave It, but also here and there. Anyway, I thought I'd put forward a list of the ska, rocksteady and reggae songs I am most enjoying playing at the moment.

In no particular order

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Stop Press - The Rocksteady Ratpack announced for Mods Mayday

April 11th 2007 07:18

We didn't do Mods Mayday last year, but we're bringing it back this year, mainly because so many people have hassled us about it. Anyway, it is on and the good news is it will be free. I think in 2005 it was 30 bucks to get in, but this year, we won't be charging a penny.

The venue is the RSL @ Newtown, on the lower end of Enmore Rd. The date is Saturday May 5th 2007 and it will start about 830 pm

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It's that time of the month! Take It or Leave It April

April 10th 2007 12:07

Well this Saturday is the second Saturday of the month and in Sydney these days, it means one thing - Take It or Leave It is on at the Sly Fox, Enmore Rd, Enmore.

The club, as usual is free, starts at nine and goes until about 4 am. The music will be the best dance floor fillers in the genres of ska, reggae, 2-tone and punk

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Firehouse has an oldies session

April 9th 2007 08:13

The title says it all and I'm excited. They've been talking about it for some time and I know the Firehouse boys have the records, so it is good they are finally doing a dance of early Jamaican sounds. Sounds of a young Jamaica, as it says on the flier, hopefully refers to an independent Jamaica, meaning we will see some ska, rocksteady and early reggae.

The addition of Chris from 2RRR's Laweless Street also adds to the credibility of this event. Years of doing dancehall events is fine, but in my opinion, the good times come when the sixties sounds are the focus

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New Soul Jazz Release - Studio One Kings

April 6th 2007 07:40

Soul Jazz Records reissuing of Studio One releases continues, this time with a compilation titled, Studio One Kings. The name says it all - here we have the biggest male names that used their voice to create hits for the Coxsone Dodd label. I don't know that much needs to be said about this album - the list of artists will speak for themseves. The tracks aren't the most obvious for each artist either, which means while some labels reissuing reggae are throwing out party reggae albums, Soul Jazz is more on the money. I was lucky enough to be given this on double LP, so I'm off to listen to it as I get ready to go out.

1. Larry Marshall — I've Got To Make It

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Rastawookie Album launch

April 5th 2007 06:53

I haven't seen Rastawookie for a couple of years now, which is strange in a way considering I used to see them all the time. But life is like that isn't it. They've changed their musical direction a little and I've maintained more of an interest in the original ska sound.

They still remain popular though and they have an album coming out very soon. The album is called Perfectly Ordinary and the launch for it will be on Saturday April 21st @ the metro

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Gogol Bordello cancel Flogging Molly supports

April 3rd 2007 12:14

I'm not sure what the reason is, but Gogol Bordello are pulling out of all their Australian shows, which were meant to be starting this Thursday!

I personally wasn't especially interested in seeing this band, but many have said they are a fantastic live act. My interest was in Flogging Molly, who I am glad haven't pulled out

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A remake of the Madness film, Take It or Leave It?

April 2nd 2007 08:37

In my inbox this morning I found, as I always do on a Monday morning, the Madness Information Service weekly newsletter.

In it there was some interesting news, that continues on from the last two blogs, about films based around ska and reggae. The first was a review of excellent skinhead film This is England and the second was news of a movie titled Clubbed based around the emerging 2-tone ska scene in Coventry in the late 1970s to be released early next year

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