BACKED BY NEW KINGSTON BAND
LIVE @ JAZZ CAFE
SUPPORTED BY REGGAE ROAST
Thursday August 13th | Doors 7pm 2am
Tickets £17.50 adv / £22 door
Late session - Free entry after 11pm
Reggae Roast will be playing support to COLLIE BUDDZ LIVE at The Jazz Cafe.
Reggae Roast are back at the Jazz Café playing support to one of the biggest artists in modern Reggae. Collie Buddz exploded onto the scene with his debut album in 2007 with hit singles "Come Around" & "Mamacita". Now he’s back with a string of US dates and this one-off UK live show, promoting tracks from his forthcoming album, which is destined for success across dancehalls of the world.
Collie will be backed by The New Kingston Band, playing exclusive tracks from the new album as well as his classic anthems “Come around”, “Blind to you” and “Let me know”. Reggae Roast have already supported Lee Scratch Perry, Sly & Robbie and Mad Professor at the Jazz Cafe this year and this is sure to be another massive night showcasing the finest roots, dub, dancehall and dubstep sounds.
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Born in New Orleans and raised on the isle of Bermuda, Colin Harper is not an easy youth to pin down geographically. His musical alter ego Collie Buddz however, is one of the most firmly grounded voices you may ever encounter. Incorporating influences from hip-hop to soca, Collie’s music nevertheless has a rock-solid foundation in reggae - and its power to connect ghetto reality with the highest heights of human aspiration - that is a rarity even in Jamaica.
Born in 1981, at the dawn of the turbulent era signaled by the twin omens of Bob Marley’s passing and Ronald Reagan’s election, Collie was immersed in the sound system culture of Bermuda aka “The Rock” since the age of 6. The evolution of dancehall and sound-clash culture into a movement of it’s own in the late 80s and early 90s set the backdrop for young Collie’s discovery of his own sonic identity, and the dancehall kings of that generation - Buju Banton, Bounty Killer and Beenie Man served as his primary influences.
A falsetto that combines the singsong lover’s rock appeal of a carnival crooner like Rupee with the deeper emotional catch of Bob Marley or Sizzla, Collie’s voice sits with equal comfort over the jump-up pace of ragga-soca, 4/4 hip-hop beats or an achingly slow one drop. Most strikingly on tunes like “My Everything” he finds both the drive of dancehall and the bluesy edge of roots in a frenetic polyrhythm built around the Latin horns of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance,” an up-tempo track that could be just as home in a Trinidad carnival as a UK discothèque.
