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pxscooterskin
08-18-2006, 08:29 AM
At the Beer Cart Arms, Canterbury, Kent.

12th September 2006.

Strictly 18 plus.
london callum
08-19-2006, 06:16 PM
Also playing in Shoreditch. Will post date and place soon.
london callum
08-20-2006, 08:46 AM
September 13th at 8. 333 Mother in Shoreditch. Just up the road from Old Street roundabout and station.
suede70
08-20-2006, 01:03 PM
September 13th at 8. 333 Mother in Shoreditch. Just up the road from Old Street roundabout and station.

Also in September..........

THE SKATALITES
Live at the Jazz Cafe, Camden

Sunday 3rd September

doors 7pm

£20 advance




The Alpha Cottage School, run by Roman Catholic nuns since 1880, educated many of the future Skatalites and produced more than their share of the musicians of prominence during the 1940s and 1950s dance band era.

The best of these players were central to the emerging sounds of the 1960s. As set musicians, The Skatalites backed the top singers of the day, Stranger Cole, Alton Ellis, Ken Boothe, Toots and The Maytals, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Peter Tosh and Jimmy Cliff are just a few who benefited from tight rhythms cultivated by the new Ska collective.

As a studio recording force, the band was placed all on one track with the singer on another; ‘one take’ recording. These conditions forged a union among the musicians that had only one logical conclusion. Tommy McCook, Rolando Alphonso, Johnny Moore, Lester Sterling, Don Drummond, Lloyd Knibb, Lloyd Brevett, Jerome Hinds, and Jackie Mittoo began working together regularly in the early 60s and formed The Skatalites in June of 1964.

No matter how great the contributions of individual members, The Skatalites were always greater than the sum of their parts, and thus the band carried on.

From the start, The Skatalites changed Jamaican music forever. The creation of ska —the father of rocksteady, the grandfather of reggae— gave us eternal rhythms that now infiltrate the globe.

"The Skatalites are Jamaica’s answer to the Motown house band and Booker T. and the MG’s combined" Rolling Stone


Kevin Batchelor - Trumpet
Karl Altamont Bryan - Tenor Sax
Valentine Lloyd Douglas - Bass
Vincent Robert Gordon - Trombone
Lloyd Knibb - Drums
Devon Woodrow James - Guitar
Monica Marjorie Johnson - Vocalist
Lester George Sterling - Alto saxophone
Kenneth Charles Stewart - Keyboardist
Boothead
08-20-2006, 02:57 PM
They'll be in the Netherlands as well 16 september, just around the corner. Nice band, I'm curious how they're live.
pxscooterskin
08-20-2006, 04:28 PM
They'll be in the Netherlands as well 16 september, just around the corner. Nice band, I'm curious how they're live.

What - the aggrolites? They cut it. Saw them twice last year locally. Good stuff.
Boothead
08-20-2006, 05:40 PM
What - the aggrolites? They cut it. Saw them twice last year locally. Good stuff.






Nice one, that means I have something to look forward to!
pxscooterskin
08-20-2006, 05:49 PM
Nice one, that means I have something to look forward to!

With Intensified. (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v518/pxscooterskin/Aggrolites%20And%20Intensified%2022%20April%2005/)

With the Peacocks (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v518/pxscooterskin/Aggrolites%20And%20Peacocks%2019%20April%2005/)
Boothead
08-20-2006, 05:55 PM
With Intensified. (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v518/pxscooterskin/Aggrolites%20And%20Intensified%2022%20April%2005/)

With the Peacocks (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v518/pxscooterskin/Aggrolites%20And%20Peacocks%2019%20April%2005/)

With the Highnotes.
london callum
09-16-2006, 06:25 PM
The Aggrolites will be supporting Madness in December.
chaosdiva
09-17-2006, 04:57 PM
And I gotta wait till Sept 26th when the Aggrolites come to Zurich...:smile:
ArmedSuspect
09-17-2006, 06:39 PM
Aggrolites are probably the best reggae/ska band going right now after HCS.