
I love reggae, and luckily for me, I was exposed to a bit more of it than ‘Kingston Town’ by UB40. When I was growing up, there used to be a pirate radio station which was run out of a tower block on the Heath Town estate in Wolverhampton. Heath Town in the 80s and 90s was a pretty horrible place to live: decaying concrete precincts; brutalist architecture; and drugs – lots of them. The radio station was called Skyline FM and broadcast a mix of reggae, dance-hall and jungle. The production was lame, and the tracks would be quickly faded in and out as the almost incomprehensible MC gave another shout-out to ‘tha Bushbury massive’. It was nauseating stuff, but they would play some artists that I went on to love: Barrington Levy; Augustus Pablo; Ras Michael; Prince Far I; and Abyssinians. ...
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