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062 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio – Is This Ska? Episode 3
062 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio – Is This Ska? Episode 3
About time I put on my dancing shoes back on and got dancing to Episode three!
So why son’t you do the same, pull on those wellies, dub your wax jacket and get dancing!!!
This is Ep. 3 of 4, 30 odd minutes each of lovely wonderful lovely [...]
063 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio – Is This Ska? Ep. 4
063 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio – Is This Ska? Ep. 4
The last in four shows, all Ska music, for you Ska heads…. put on your cuban heels, and get jumpin’… you devils you!
‘Oi Des, Crank the volume up, people wanna hear that stuff when you go sailing past in your works van!!’
Tracklist – All tunes on [...]
064 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio – Deejays Only
064 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio – Deejays Only
If Deejay be your trade, then toast on, that’s my advice to the plethora of talkers upon the Mic… this podcast is offered as remedy for the lack of Deejays on the podcasts, and the requests for more… I hope you enjoy all 29 of them.
Tracklist – All tunes [...]
065 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio presents The Steve Barrow Special – Part 1
Steve Barrow has been collecting Jamaican music since 1962, before most people called Ska….. Ska!
Over the years Steve’s interest in Jamaican music has developed from collecting through to writing for Black Echoes, running his own record stores, compiling records for Island, Trojan, and his own label Blood and Fire records. He co-wrote the Rough Guide [...]
066 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio presents The Steve Barrow Special – Part 2
He’s even recorded a toilet for Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry!
If you want to know more about the Reggae scene in London from the 60s through to the present, or an insight into record label runnings from the 70s onwards, then this may make for essential listening.
Steve wrote for Black Echoes in the 1970s, ran his own [...]
068 Bigmikeydread Reggae Radio meets House Of Reggae – In the So So Show Show
Mr. Reggae himself Ian Causer travelled down to East Sussex to join Big Mikey at home for a piece ‘a pizza, Beer and Reggae music session, as always mindful of your interests, we taped it. You can listen to the show here!
We hope you enjoy the music and some of our banter…. frankly we’d do [...]