Dub Pistols + Kioko + Cuba Libre
Friday 24 March
Doors 7pm / starts 8pm
£15 (£14+£1 booking fee) advance / £17 door
Weymouth-based Cuba Libre are the opening act for Dub Pistols, who appear at Bridport Electric Palace on Friday 24 March on their 20thanniversary tour.
Last year, the six-piece Cuba Libre spent the spring and summer hitting gigs up and down the country. During the winter, they’ve been locked in the studio, busy writing songs.
Expert a fast-paced, high-energy performance combining a mix of genres through dub, ska, drum ‘n’ bass and hip hop.
Dub Pistols’ main support will be from Kioko, an up and coming reggae band from Birmingham. Deadly Roots, the lead track from the band’s debut LP, True What They Say, immediately picked up plays from Radio 1’s Huw Stephens along with reggae legend David Rodigan (who now regards himself as a fan). It promises to be a great night. Last time Dub Pistols were at the Palace, the event sold out.
The Dub Pistols are one of the few remaining working class bands who carry the flame of reggae-driven sound system music, the secret rhythm of Britain from ska and rocksteady through Soul II Soul to grime and dubstep and beyond.
Recently the reformed Happy Mondays tweeted that the Dub Pistols were the best live band we’ve seen in years.
“I always thought that being in a band wasn’t for people like me,” founder Barry Ashworth admits. “It was more a middle-class thing. It was the Mondays that changed that. We’re part of street music, working class music. That’s never going to go away.”
