A mix of concert footage with Dennis Bovell’s dub band, interviews and chat, archive footage of St. Vincent (Shake Keane’s home island), Jamaica (Linton Kwesi Johnson’s home island), Notting Hill and Archer Street in the West End. In 6 short parts that seemed to follow on from each other when I watched on YouTube. Linton, Shake and bassist Coleridge Goode are extensively featured and there’s also a shorter chat section with English pianist/bandleader Michael Garrick. Some interesting discussion about Joe Harriott also. I missed this completely when the BBC first aired it in 1992 so it’s good to see it now.
She Said She’d Always Been A Dancer – Soho in the 60s
Please forgive what is clearly yet another self-indulgent stroll down memory lane, but a couple of Afterworders have requested more details about my Beatles encounter of 1967. So here it is.
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