PAPA CHARJAN & Jack Reuben's drinking anthem. One Scotch, One Lager, One Brew, is SimsplssSti 'very much alive' out as a seven-inch on Shuttle (via Priority) on Monday. There's also a four-track 1 2-inch to replace the THIRD TIME round has divided Roots Band, Toyin, Trevor Providing the Jamaican balance current disco 45 ... Bunny Waller proved unlucky for Suns- Hartley and Tippa Irie. at this year's Sunsplash will be has his first single of the year. Tears plash, which after building Chart hitting with Hello Darling Black Uhuru, Alton Ellis and — In Your Eyes/Old Time SingTing, up its reputation as an on Greensleeves, Irie has always appearing outside Jamaica for the fresh out on his own Solomonic annual event over the last two been an admirer of traditional first time since Bob Marley's death label. Tears is remixed from the years has now been forced to take Jamaican artists but has been de- — The Wailers. original Wailers last LP, Market- Wembley Arena as an alternative termined to create a homegrown Black Uhuru, one of the more place, and SingTing a taster for venue to Crystal Palace's Selhurst feel which relies on his own ex- enduring bands to have emerged the forthcoming Rule ... Park ground. After police objec- uberant style and entertaining from the Seventies, have been busy New from South London's Fashion tions banned Sunsplash from its lyrics. on the touring and recording front label: Asher Senator's Bubbling former 30,000-capacity home, a Irie has released four singles on this year ana in May released an follow-up. Exercising; Nerious combination of lack of time and Greensleeves to date and a new album, Brutal, on the Authentic Joseph's Running Around, complications caused by the de- single Heartbeat and a debut Sounds label It features the single Michael Gordon's Magic Feel- mise of the GLC made it impossible album Is It Really Happening To Great Train Robbery which has ings Andrew Paul's Crazy; and for organiser Synergy to find an Me? are due for imminent release. been hailed as the quintessential Axeman's So Far So Good. In the outdoor venue of similar capacity, Probably generating the most Black Uhuru record and was the pipeline from the label meanwhile writes Karen Faux. excitement at Sunsplash Concerts is result of pairing the band with pro- is the new Winsome single Born David Rodigan, who along with Aswad, also homegrown, who ducer Arthur Baker. Free and an as-yet-untitled single Tommy Cowan will be compering since their formation in 1 975 have from Mikey General . . . Over at the two-day event which is part of done much to gain credibility and Alton Ellis, acclaimed as the king Anwa Sounds, Mackabee has a Capital Radio's 1986 Musical Fes- respect for UK . Initially of rock steady, has enjoyed a long new album. Sign Of The Times, and tivals and now goes under the ban- signed to Island, they were the and distinguished career which has single, wet-look Crazy, imminent. ner of Sunsplash Concerts, says he youngest reggae band on the road taken him from a vocal debut in a While others up-and-coming in- will be fighting hard next year to when they released their debut duo named Alton And Eddy to his clude; Sandra Cross with an help secure an outside venue RODIGAN — compering. single Back To Africa and from own group Alton And The Flames album, Country Life, which includes which provides the right feel and there they have come a long way and finally to a solo career in the singles Country Living, It's You environment for what is essentially with subseauent albums which 1 967 when he joined the Studio and You're Lying; Ranking Ann a family occasion; "We had to go have emboaied lover's rock, jazz One label. His first album Rock with a single Feminine Gender; with what was available — it was which adheres to the fundamental fusions and an increasingly hard And Soul, On Studio One, was a Sister Audrey also with a single, either that or no Sunsplash in any idea of giving lesser-known artists rhythm edge. huge success. Put A Little Up Away, and an form. The important thing is to let a valuable platform along with all Resurrecting their own Simba He paved the way for many album, Populate; Robotiks member the public and media know that the attendant publicity. Taking the label in 1985, they released a other Jamaican artists. Tony Lawrence with a solo single. Sunsplash is still very much alive." Wembley stage will be Aswad, single entitled Bubbling that spent After leaving Jamaica and living Dancing On A Bassline .., laoel Despite being a relatively weak Alton Ellis, Black Uhuru, The Wall- months at the top of the reggae in the US and Canada, Ellis finally boss Neil Ffazer's alter ego The link in the Sunsplash chain — and ers, King Sounds And The Israelites charts and now their album To The settled in London in 1974 and his Mad Professor with Schizophre- the organisers are determined to and there will also be personal Top looks set to outstrip that suc- performance at Wembley follows nic Dub (Dub Me Crazy Pt 6); and resume it in its proper form next appearances from Asher Senator, cess by making a dent in the Gal- up his last appearance at Suns- a label compilation featuring the year — the line-up is a strong one Sandra Cross, Mackabee, The Un- lup chart. plash in 1 983. entire roster.

Tippa Irie — New Single "HEARTBEAT" TIPPA 5 (7") TIPPA T5 (12") from the forthcoming LP "IS IT REALLY HAPPENING TO ME" ^6 9 H

UNIT? — for young UK dance and soul artists. NOW First 12" releases by SHARA OUT BO "CANT GET OVER YOU" UNST1 r\ CHRIS ANTHONY "CHANCES ARE GONE" UNST 2. ENT 0012 cS! From the forthcoming Entente LP "ULTIMATE EXPERIENCE" enlpiooi GREENSLEEVES the original label with over Available 100 albums on release by on PMIT? artists such as Eek A Mouse, RECORDS SO , Dr Alimantado, 7" EN10012 and 12" ENT0012 Wailing Souls, etc.

in-ih jflw PU'.P iuypfciiit. RAS— Major signings are BLACK UHURU and FREDDIE McGREGOR current releases: YA Freddie McGregor "Push Come To Shove" RASTyOIGd?") RAS 7016(7") Black Uhuru "Brutal" ras RAS 3015 (LP) Hf *: lolHfNTlC RAS C3015 (CASS)

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