Thursday 29th September
Sankeys Soap. Jersey Street Manchester
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Tickets are now available for the highly anticipated Ariwa 25th Anniversary show on Thursday 29th September. We have 100 early-bird tickets available for this exclusive show, which are available up until Friday 29th July (After this tickets go up to
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Trojanrecords.net Clancy Eccles, one of the most loved and revered personalities in Jamaican music sadly passed away on June 30th at a hospital in Spanish Town, just outside Kingston, after suffering a stroke that had left him in a coma for 5 days. |
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I feel a bit like the Obituary editor at the local newspaper today. Here are some more notable and loved reggae artists who have also passed on earlier this year. Thankfully Lee Scratch Perry is still alive and well in Switzerland. The links will take you to the original stories posted on the trojan records website.
| Justin Hinds Loses Battle Against Illness 17/03/2005 |  |
| Roots Concert Dedicated To Junior Delgado 22/04/2005 |  |
| Reggae Vocalist Jennifer Lara Dies 20/06/2005 |  |
Justin Hinds Loses Battle Against Illness 17/03/2005
| By Laurence Cane-Honeysett Click to view the original article at Trojanrecords.net
The world of music was dealt another dreadful blow this weekend when Ska legend, Laurel Aitken passed away after suffering a massive heart attack. He had been admitted to Glenfield Hospital in Leicester on Saturday 16th July, but sadly passed away the following morning. Laurel was a true pioneer of Jamaican music, who not only played a key role in the early development of the island Laurel was born in Cuba in 1927 and it was on the largest of the Caribbean islands that he spent the first eleven years of his life. By the time he and his family moved to Kingston in 1938, music already played a large part of his life, with American R&B and Jazz particularly inspirational to the teenager Some new Lee Perry tracks will be added to the stream this week, as well as some Tubby. I’ll be cycling out some of the older tracks and trying to freshen up the playlist a bit. For some non Lee Scratch perry news check out my blog at www.strangerthanfiction.org The guys from WBR,Moonraisers and Damp-Music are going to do us all a huge favor. They are going to print out the messages to scratch and try to give them to him for us during the next January tour. Now is the time to send out your messages to Scratch. Guidelines: No questions will be allowed. These messages are one way only, so don’t hit Scratch with any questions in your message. Go to the message boards in the Messages for Scratch section to make your mark. You must be logged in to leave messages in the boards. No spamming multiple messages please, if you forgot something edit your original message if possible. Just a fun survey to see how long you’ve been a fan of the Mighty Upsetter(s) and his/their music. CHECK OUT THE NEW WHITEBELLYRATS HOMEPAGE! ALL TOURDATES AND NEWS ONLINE NOW! Soon Online: Let me know what kind of results you have with the peercast thing. I can hear it fine but I’m on 100Mbit right next to the server so I’d like to know if people encounter problems with it. Make sure you download Peercast and not the peercast winamp plug in (which is for broadcasting) 
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