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Sunday Best Presents: Dub Pistols
- When:11/5/2012
- The Electric Town Hall Parade Brixton London SW2 1RJ
- The evolution of the Dub Pistols has been fascinating to watch since Barry Ashworth and Jason O’Bryan first bust out in 1996 as fully-formed party animals declaring ‘There’s Gonna Be A Riot’.
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While their live show continued to whip up unbridled mayhem and build a healthy worldwide following through relentless touring, the records took their own path, moving swiftly on from initial big beat whoopee into celebrations of two lifetimes of musical obsessions, the reggae-punk implications of the Dub Pistols moniker just the launch-pad.
Their fourth album, Rum & Coke, continued the journey, this time using grooves more as vehicles for a songwriting frenzy which has resulted in their most assured, mature and, yep, commercial album yet. With a startling array of guests, including cool ruler Gregory Isaacs, Beats International’s Lindy Layton, acid house pioneer Justin Robertson and Ashley Slater of Freak Power they’ve refined the multi-hued excursions of previous album Speakers And Tweeters and emerged as a cutting-edge modern pop group without losing the danger, humour and mania....
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