Tom Powell
DON’T turn around, Reggae legends Aswad are on their way to Puerto Banus.
The British stalwarts are set to play a free concert at Joys Live bar on Saturday 11 April.
With number one hits including ‘Shine’ and ‘Give a little love’, they have produced 21 albums and have been playing live since the mid 1970s.
They became one of the UK’s top reggae bands in the 1980s, introducing strong R&B and soul influences to their music.
For more information visit www.joyslive.com
They must be getting on now – would love to have seen Linton Qwesi Johnson. The first real rapper, everyone after him was on a downward slope now it’s crap music not rap music.
And their contemporaries The Ruts, tragically cut off in their prime by the death of vocalist Malcolm Owen. In my view a superior band to The Clash. From that same ancient melting-pot, that also encompassed the movement, ” Rock against Racism” Happy Days…