SPANK YOUR GIRLFRIND!!!!
sugar minott the don!!!
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Yes yes Sugar Minott…words can’t describe how cool you were on so many levels. Your voice & your irie vibes will live forever!
What really impressed me the most about Sugar Minott was his love for the ghetto youth of Jamaica. While other reggae singers made it big & bought their big house on the hill, Sugar stayed in the ghetto & set up Youthman Promotions, where he taught the youth of Kingston the music trade. I could list how many youth he helped to start a music career, but the list would be too long! He is an example of a Rastaman without dreads…he was a true Rastaman & a dread at heart.
Sugar gave the best shows…one of illest shows I have ever seen was Sugar in ‘86 in Oakland…he rocked it for 2 hours! We will get our slice of the cake, all sufferers rise up.
Sugar Minott – Sufferer’s Choice
SUGAR MINOTT – Inna Reggae Dance Hall.
SUGAR MINOTT – Ghetto-Ology Dub.
Sugar Minott & the Youth Promotion Crew 1986.
Sugar Minott – Good Thing Going [totp2].
WE SALUTE YOU SUGAR “BUGGA” MINOTT!!!
super rad humans….
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
RUBELLA.BALLET.”IF”.1986…CLASSIC.DAY-GLO.SPAZZ.
The band was formed by former Fatal Microbes Pete Fender (Dan Sansom, guitar), Gem Stone (Gemma Sansom, bass) and It (Quentin North, also bass), with vocalists Annie Anxiety and Womble, and drummer Sid Ation (born Sid Truelove, 18 April 1960, Sutton Coldfield, a former chef, later also the drummer with Flux of Pink Indians). Annie, Womble and It were involved only initially, left and were replaced by vocalist Zillah Minx (born Zillah Elaine Ashworth, 31 March 1961, Birkenhead). Fender and Stone were the son and daughter of Poison Girls singer Vi Subversa. The band used Poison Girls equipment to jam and write songs and their first performance was when they took to the stage at a Crass/Poison Girls concert. They had originally been called Rubella Babies. The band’s first proper gig was a fundraiser for the Theatre Royal in Stratford, which ended in a riot, and the band played frequently, often asking audience members to put them up after gigs.
The new line-up were soon known for wearing brightly coloured dayglo clothes on stage, to differentiate themselves from the anarcho-punk bands who tended to wear black, ‘army-surplus’ style clothing. Pete Fender left at the end of 1982 and soon afterwards joined Omega Tribe as a full-time member, having been their early mentor and record producer.
RUBELLA.BALLET.
FALSE.PROMISES.
The band released one album on cassette tape, entitled Ballet Bag (1981) and a 4 track 7″ EP, Ballet Dance (1982), both for Poison Girls’ XNTRIX Records, after rejecting the opportunity to put out a record on the Crass label. Adrian Thrills, reviewing the single in the NME stated “the Ballet have an appealing sharp edge to their claustrophobic punk thrash, a poppy surge and even a discernable funk readjustment…of course, they could always just be taking the piss”. After releasing the 42f single on Jungle Records (with Sean replacing Fender) the band started their own Ubiquitous label. Rubella Ballet toured extensively with Poison Girls and Crass, and recorded two John Peel sessions for BBC Radio. In 1984 they embarked on an ill-fated tour of Italy to promote 42F. The band had only been given single airline tickets and after a week of playing without getting paid, they returned to England by train.
The band’s line-up underwent several changes before their next release, “Money Talks” (1985); Sean and Gem had left, to be replaced by Adam and Rachel Minx (Zillah’s younger sister Rachel Irene Jane Ashworth), and Adam himself has replaced by Steve Cachman prior to the recording of the debut album At Last, It’s Playtime, the same year, an album that has been described as “chugging mid-paced stuff, many of the tracks dominated by Zillah’s steamroller-flat vox”. The line-up stabilized over the next few years, the band recording a second album, If… in 1986.
RIDE.THE.DAY-GLO.VIBES.
TERENCE KOH/ROSSON CROW
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010FORFEX KILLER AND SPACE BOOT ONLY FOR TERENCE KOH AND ROSSON CROW.
I LOVE THESE NY ARTISTS!!
