Birmingham Repertory Theatre Presents The Decypher Collective’s ‘8SIXTEEN32’ National Tour The Decypher Collective and their show 8SIXTEEN32, commissioned by Birmingham Repertory Theatre marks a first, both for the grime scene, that quintessentially British progeny of hip-hop, drum & bass and garage, and for theatre. 8SIXTEEN32 refers to typical bar lines used in grime: these rhythms […]
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Sugar Minott Tribute Show
Mellow Mix & Friends presents Sugar Minott Tribute Show On Sunday 11th of July 2010 Lincoln Barrington AKA Sugar Minott passed away from us. Performing since 1969 he was a singer, producer & sound-system operator most of all he was a great entertainer of reggae music & a great friend of Mellow Mix studio’s he […]
Soprano Abigail Kelly
Abigail Kelly completed her Post Graduate Diploma course in operatic studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow under the tuition of Helen Lawson. In 2006 she completed her undergraduate studies at Birmingham Conservatoire with a first class honours degree studying under Maureen Brathwaite with further tuition from Stuart Smith and […]
The Jolly Boys – The Birth Of Modern Mento
Great Expectations from the Jolly Boys Jamaica’s legendary Jolly Boys will release a new album, ‘Great Expectation’ on Wall Of Sound/Geejam Recordings on 13th September 2010. It’s a collaborative project between Geejam’s Jon Baker and Wall Of Sound’s Mark Jones and the result is 12 stunning interpretations of contemporary songs given a mento makeover. They […]
Reggae and dancehall legend Lincoln ‘Sugar’ Minott has died
Reggae and dancehall legend Lincoln ‘Sugar’ Minott has died (July 11th 2010), at the age of 54, just a days before the scheduled release of his latest album, Raw Sugar. Born in Kingston Jamaica, Sugar Minott’s musical career began in his teens, after working with sound systems, he then joined the ‘The African Brothers’ in […]