14.11.24

Dancing In The Street

 


Last episode read by Maxine Jayne on Mickey Nold's Two-Soulution radio show in 1990s.

From Martha Reeves book of the same name. Episode 15.

2.6.24

Triple Trouble Trio



 
Rankin' Festus Clarke, Pedro Irie & Captain Irie 2014 (photo: Pedro)

31.12.23

DJ Tony Ray

 ๐๐‚๐‘๐‹ ๐ƒ๐‰, ๐“๐จ๐ง๐ฒ ๐‘๐š๐ฒ.  Hi, basically I'm a lover and collector of Soul & Funk Music .Anything from classic soul artists and groups such as Leroy Hutson, Phyllis Hyman, Maze, Willie Hutch , Jean Carne, Leon Ware , Marvin Gaye , Earth Wind & Fire etc., ( I could go on and on !! ) to the likes of brand new independent soul artists cutting it today. I have DJ'd and promoted at various nights , playing on a variety of radio stations both pirate and legal, (Premier Radio, PCRL Radio, Sweet FM, New Style Radio, Solar Radio & Starpoint Radio ), and holding down and promoting various soul nights (Raison D'etre, Marco Polo's, The Boundary, Maxwells, & Soul Intimacy) .
The Soul Intimacy radio shows are a series of radio shows hosted by myself and originally dating back to 2001 on New Style Radio where the concept was born. The ethos behind it, simply playing the very finest all era mid and down tempo soulful grooves i can find ! Cheers Tony Ray (Mixcloud bio 2018)


Tony Ray joined PCRL in the early 2000s and played Soul music on a Sunday Morning. Tony celebrates his birthday, December 31st with Odetta Holmes/Felious (1930) and Donna Summers (1948)

5.12.23

DJ Malibu

Awaiting biographical information 




with Rankin' Bev during 1988 court case crowds/demo

5.9.23

PCRL at 1985 Handsworth Riots



Thanks goes out to John Hannon for sharing his September 10th, 1985 PCRL recording with us. Cecil Morris is on the streets of Handsworth the morning after the riots that caused major damage to the local Handsworth area. He is talking amongst others, to Cllr James Hunte, Cecil had also during the riots called for calm over PCRL airways. Photos: Central News


1.9.23

Narratives from Beyond The Bassline


 ๐๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ž๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐”๐Š ๐‘๐ž๐ ๐ ๐š๐ž ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž: ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐’๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐
This book was published in 2021 and it devotes a whole chapter (20 pages) to PCRL. Although at ยฃ85 it's will have a limited audience. Thanks goes out to work Dr. Lisa Amanda Palmer. Can be found on Amazon.
This book explores the history of reggae in modern Britain from the time it emerged as a cultural force in the 1970s. As basslines from Jamaica reverberated across the Atlantic, so they were received and transmitted by the UKโ€™s Afro-Caribbean community.
From roots to loversโ€™ rock, from deejays harnessing the dancehall crowd to dub poets reporting back from the socio-economic front line, British reggae soundtracked the inner-city experience of black youth. In time, reggaeโ€™s influence permeated the wider culture, informing the sounds and the language of popular music whilst also retaining a connection to the street-level sound systems, clubs and centres that provided space to create, protest and innovate. This book is therefore a testament to struggle and ingenuity, a collection of essays tracing reggaeโ€™s importance to both the culture and the politics of late twentieth and early twenty-first century Britain.