There’s a very special event happening next week in memory of Perry Henzell (who died in 2006), the celebrated director “The Harder They Come”. It’s a double feature screening with Perry’s until recently thought to be lost follow-up “No Place Like Home”. It’s also a celebration of the star of the film, Jimmy Cliff, and [...]
Leroy Sibbles of The Heptones, who recently recorded and performed with LA based group The Lions, hopes for a Rocksteady revivial along the lines of the Buena Vista Social Club as the new documentary “Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae”, which we mentioned back in February, continues it’s push to different venues around the world.
The Toronto [...]
Another amazing day and another amazing google alert popped up in my reader (dam fine service – what did we do without it?) and I about had a heart attack. My head goes dizzy and thoughts, lots of them, race through my head. How have I not heard about this before? Why is it not [...]
Get ready for another trip into the wacked out mind of the lyrical mastermind that is Lee Perry – THE UPSETTER!
www.theupsettermovie.com
SYNOPSIS
The Upsetter is the first feature-length documentary film about the life and genius of Jamaican musician and visionary Lee Scratch Perry. The film probes into Perry’s mysterious youth as well as the notorious events [...]
The ska beat fills my soul and if this movie makes a trip stateside somehow my soul will be complete! Check out this trailer for a simply amazing new documentary on the birth of ska. Jerry Dammers (The Specials) among many others are interviewed. It has been completed and recently screened in London. I hope [...]