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Tourdates | ||
DUB SPENCER & TRANCE HILL |
01.03.2012 München - Feierwerk 02.03.2012 Marburg - KFZ 03.03.2012 Köln - Underground 04.03.2012 Hamburg - Fundbureau 08.03.2012 Villach (A) - Kulturhofkeller 09.03.2012 Bamberg (D) - Morphclub 10.03.2012 Olbernhau (D) - Tivoli - Mink 16.03.2012 Zürich (CH) - Stall 17.03.2012 Luzern (CH) - Vasco da Gama 23.03.2012 Zug (CH) - Galvanik 31.03.2012 Losone (CH) - La Fabbrica 05.05.2012 Freiburg (D) - E-Werk 12.05.2012 Kaltern am See (I) - Culture at the Station (Festival) |
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THE SENIOR ALLSTARS |
30.03.2012 Münster - Hot Jazz Club |
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GROUNDATION |
02.05.2012 Stuttgart - Universum 03.05.2012 Hamburg - Fabrik 04.05.2012 Berlin - C-Club |
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THE BLACK SEEDS |
03.05.2012 Köln - Underground 04.05.2012 Münster - Gleis 22 05.05.2012 Berlin - C-Club 07.05.2012 Hamburg - Fabrik 08.05.2012 Dresden - Scheune 10.05.2012 Tübingen - Sudhaus 11.05.2012 Basel (CH) - Kaserne 12.05.2012 Zürich (CH) - Moods 13.05.2012 München - Ampere |
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LUNAR 3 |
10.03.2012 Münster - Clubschiene 24.03.2012 Leipzig - Beyerhaus |
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BABA ZULA |
25.03.2012 Hamburg - Fabrik 27.03.2012 Köln - Stadtgarten 30.03.2012 Hamburg - Fabrik 02.04.2012 Mannheim - Alte Feuerwache 03.04.2012 Freiburg - Jazzhaus 05.04.2012 Bielefeld - Kamp 06.04.2012 Berlin - Lido 08.04.2012 München - Ampere 09.04.2012 Erlangen - E-Werk |
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Festivals | ||
About: British Reggae Festivals |
Where
do you go in the summer if you want to hear some sweet Reggae music whilst
sat in the sunshine? How about if you want to skank the night away to some
Ska before crawling back to your tent? If
you live on the continent you have nearly 100 festivals dedicated to Reggae
& Ska music and it’s sub-genres to choose from. One of the biggest is
Sunsplash in Italy. This festival lasts for 10 days and has an amazing
line-up. 2009 saw Horace Andy, Steel Pulse, The Congos, Fat Freddy’s Drop,
Beenieman & Buju Banton alongside smaller lesser known reggae acts. In
an idyllic location where the sun is far more likely to shine than the UK it
seems like a bargain at 150 Euros. With Reggae festivals in France, Spain,
Holland, Croatia, Belgium & Germany you are never far away from a
weekend of Reggae sounds. If
you are in the US there is also a huge amount of festivals dedicated to
sweet Reggae music. Of course in the homeland of Jamaica there are also many
Reggae Festivals and most people would say that would be the ultimate place
to go to a Reggae Festival. Back
here in the UK things are quite different. The UK has never had a proper
Reggae festival. A few attempts have been made, the Reggae Festival of Wales
for example was a small event but successful. Unfortunately council and
police red tape as well as other factors meant this only went ahead for two
years. There have been some other events but most have been nothing more
than day long gigs. The Notting Hill Carnival is most defiantly a
celebration of reggae music but cannot really be considered a festival.
There is also Boss Sounds festival which is two days of reggae music at an
indoor venue but as there is nothing outdoors and no camping this doesn’t
really fit into what we are looking for. How
could this be? The UK has played a massive part in evolving the Reggae scene
into what it is today. UK Reggae is undoubtedly regarded as highly as its
Jamaican inspiration. At
last in 2008 the UK hosted a proper Reggae festival, One Love, to mark 20
years since Bob Marley played the One Love concert. The event was such a
success that it was repeated in 2009. The line up included Alpha &
Omega, Adrian Sherwood & Brother Culture, Channel One ft Mikey Dread,
Smith and Mighty, Macka B & Nucleus Roots. I
spent the weekend at Endorse-it in Dorset Festival for UK Reggae Guide to
see the Reggae bands there and to try and find out why the UK is so behind
the rest of Europe when it comes to putting on a Reggae festival. I also
talked to people that love their Reggae music. I have discovered that
getting Jamaican artists over to the UK requires too much government red
tape and visas will often not be granted. I found that the police and
councils make it hard to get a licence for a festival which has been wrongly
stereotyped into the sort of event that is likely to attract drug use and
violence. See
the full version of this article exclusivly on UK Reggae Guide http://www.ukreggaeguide.co.uk/index.php?id=340 References: ReggaeNode
- http://www.reggaenode.de/festival |
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