★★★★★ DAVID 'RAM JAM' RODIGAN ★★★★★
REGGAE AMBASSADOR & SOUNDCLASH LEGEND!
★ BBC RADIO 1XTRA ★ BBC RADIO 2 ★
with support from:
★ SLACKY RANKS ★ EMBANTON ★
£8 limited advance tickets from www.moles.co.uk
£10 on the door
10PM-4AM
David Rodigan bio:
For over 30 years David Rodigan has been the top dog in the ganja-scented, bass heavy-atmosphere of Britain’s reggae dance-halls. The key to his success has been an unsinkable passion for reggae music, which first took a hold of him as a schoolboy when he heard ska music in the early 60s. He developed an obsession with the music of Jamaica that generated an encyclopaedic knowledge of the island’s every artist, every song and every rhythm track.
Rodigan began his reggae broadcasting career in 1978 on BBC Radio London. He moved to Capital Radio in 1979 and remained there for eleven years broadcasting his legendary ‘Roots Rockers’ show every Saturday night. His credibility was ensured when he began clashing with Jamaica’s champion DJ, Barry G on JBC Radio in Jamaica. He then went on to clash with all the top Jamaican sound systems in the West Indies, the USA and England and in 2012 he won the ultimate clash victory when he took the Champion Trophy at 'World Clash Reset' in New York against opponents Bass Odyssey, Black Kat, Tony Matterhorn, Fire Links, Earth Ruler and Poison Dart.
In 1990 he joined the newly legalised Kiss 100 where he presented a variety of daytime shows for 10 years before kicking back to his weekly reggae show, which he broadcast for another 12 years until 2012. In February 2013 he joined the BBC to present a new weekly reggae show on Radio 1Xtra on Sundays between 7 and 9pm and also a summer season of classic ska, rock steady and reggae on BBC Radio 2. In 2005 he was inducted into the Sony Radio Academy Hall Of Fame and has won many awards for his broadcasting. In 2012 he was awarded the MBE for “services to broadcasting” at Buckingham Palace.
He plays a special collection of customised dub plates and classic recordings and brings his unique charisma to every venue he graces.
It is an absolute honour to bring this man to Bath.
