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The Solution Sound benefit for Spirit<\/a> was excellent – all sorts of people skanking inna Homerton, just round the corner from Jah Tubbys place.<\/p>\n BASH<\/a> was even better than the amazing debut. More people, more vibes. I spent most of Seamus’ set chatting with Martin<\/a>, but he played some stormers. Mala was great – he played Ding Dong and that track that Loefah kicked off with last time. I have no idea what it is but it sounds just like a Disciples tune from about 10 years ago. I mean that in a good way, it made we want to check out some more of this young people’s “dubstep” music<\/em>, heh heh.<\/p>\n I was looking forward to Digital because I assumed that someone who had released tunes like “Natty Dread” would really know what they were doing. It was a good set of dancehall classics, “Greetings”, “Police in Helicopter” etc – all played off CD. Not that that<\/em> should matter really, but it still seems<\/em> to, especially as he seemed to be playing them a bit on the quiet side to my ears. I went and accosted Pokes about it, that’s how strongly I feel about things! “Can you make him turn it up?” “apparently he’s going to – later!”…<\/p>\n YT, the white MC, was on top form. Rodigan has been caning YT’s “England Story” which is version of the 85 riddim that covers the history of reggae in the UK- nods to Saxon and Shaka and all that. Needless to say, this got an outing and went down a storm, as did an anti-paedo vocal also on 85.<\/p>\n The low point of Digital’s set was a selection on Drop Leaf<\/em>, which I felt was a bit out of character for Bash. Can we have a “Drop Leaf moratorium”, please? Like guitar shops and “Stairway to Heaven”? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Loefah didn’t play back to back with The Bug this time cos Digital was late. Damn! So Kevin came on last with Warrior Queen – who wasn’t there last time cos she’d lost her voice. The volume was ramped up. WQ got to business with some familiar stuff like “Aktion Pak” – she always looks like she’s really enjoying herself, relaxed and On It. My vocal chords got a working out when I heard her coming in on top of the instrumental to Papa Levi’s “My God My King”. Yeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssss!!!!<\/p>\n At some point the lights came up completely unexpectedly. We all blinked at each other and then smiled big big smiles. Another triumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The work doc says I am allowed four sessions of half an hour a day on a keyboard. Which is quite rubbish especially as that’s just about enough to function in my job. Mind you it’s better than nothing… this post has been lashed together in downtime, 5 minutes here and there at the end …<\/p>\n