With five days, three cities, hundreds of acts and dozens and dozens of shows to navigate. you’d be forgiven for being oven/vhelmed by what’s on offer at this year’s TRIPTYCH festival. Hence Mark Robertson’s monsterish musical Venn diagram. No calculator required.
PRINCE BUSTER During the years ‘9')02 to Hf)? Prince Buster had 00’) singles in the UK charts. such was his enduring [)’)i)llléiflf‘,’. The man was, like ll‘élfl,’ .Jammcan muSicians of the age. a musical dynamo. Without him we would have no 2 Tone
Records. and that means no Madness. the Sprxnals or the Beat. All hail!
PAUL ST HILAIRE Reggae has many fine influential vocalists but few stray too far from the well-trodden path. St Hilaire has iomed forces With producers from the rock and electronic cannon to take dub far from its roots into a futuristic territory that spans the globe from Berlin to Detroit Via London, a sentiment reflected in his considered sOund. KENNY KNOTTS
A veteran of British reggae s0und systems. ROOTS MANUVA Those who have Witnessed the fitness of our finest rap poet over his three groundbreaking records can pay tribute to
his ability to bring humility. frailty and humanity into a genre too often overstuffed With the fur coat-nae-knickers nonsense of pseudo gangsters. As deep as they come.
KANO
Roots Manuva and Dizzee Rascal have provided a legacy for UK hip hop acts to aspire to and Kano is nsmg to the occasiOn. The beast that is grime is finally given a personality.
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Prince Buster
Paul St Hilaire
JOSH MARTINEZ & THE CHICARONES
A upbeat hip hop band on an indie label full of overwrought rock kids? Surely not? Well, Bella Union think differently and rightly so.
BUTCH CASSIDY SOUND SYSTEM FEATURING PABLO A SLiCCuIent fLiSion of roots reggae. 70s soul. R88. hip hop. funk and house. Hmmm. MONEY MARK
He may have been the fourth Beastie Boy in his time but was far from a fifth wheel. His organ grinding was the central dnve to the band's two
Kenny Knotts
Soundsystem
Josh Martinez & The Chicarones
Buqzin the Attic
finest albums Check Your Head and /// Com/iiuriicatIOn during the 90s. Mark's subseQLient solo work on labels like Mo Wax is Suitany idiOSyncratic. keyboard-driven svringers
With his own deadpan vocals and after several years off the radar, this is a welcome return.
Butch Cassidy
BUGZ IN THE ATTIC Pure. unadulterated genre-mashing, dancefloor hedonism for those moments when absolutely nothirig else Will do.
CANDI STATON
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