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And you will know that I always play a reggae track on the show every day public as I love reggae and part is another quite a lot of you love reggae too but also because I just think it's a really important part of our collective culture particularly if you grew up in London in the sixties seventies eighties when I actually think more than anything else that was the sound of this city it was the sound of more eco tourism in many many senses it was the sound of the streets it was what you hear what you were coming out of people's cars and windows of their flats it was what you had when you went to a party and you didn't have to be from the West Indian community or Jamaican in particular Surely everyone had mates who were you'd go around the house and their mom and dad would have a copy of a 1000 votes of how but also just whoever you are if you go up to put it in the late sixty's with all the scar stuff that was so much a part of our lives Trojan records and all of that and then into the seventy's it kind of came back again it went away for a while for me but it came back again big time in the mid seventy's where the whole roots and culture movement which somehow got kind of mixed up with punk rock and kind of rebel rock from that period of time and it's that period and that culture and that music which is celebrated on a new compilation called step forward youth and it looks specifically at that kind of interface between the whole punk thing of the 7 is and the room. It's in culture reggae thing either roots and culture coming out of Jamaica of which obviously there was some fantastic stuff all the kind of the reggae music that was produced and it was so much great indigenous Raghad particularly here in London town it's a double CD and it contains a lot of the union or some of the usual suspects so you're going to get Police and thieves you're going to get 3 piece suit by Trinity rise fish and Co made by Lee Perry. JR play some phase as I said but also a whole lot of stuff that I didn't know a must admit they haven't just gone for the obvious ones yeah clashes on their own so it should be and so he's missed the cut by Gregory Isaacs but so is another check for example by. The man by Johnny a move in Normally we play Police and thieves Well how about Cole without sun. Yes the be. The boss. The big good. The big. News. The big. She. Was a. Nice. That's just one of the I was going to count it one of the 36 if my sums are correct tracks on a compilation called step forward youth and a fantastic compilation is as well as it is got some of the usual suspects on there but then they're pretty good suspects indeed Sosa got a whole host of tracks that I don't know are true and I kind of know more reggae music but then so did it so gentlemen sitting opposite me you've been involved in putting this together then no one Hawkes and Chris O'Brien welcome both of you to B.B.C. Radio London and this is I guess this is a Greensleeves record is it so that's why you're one of the great London reggae labels of course now I was saying earlier on that I play a reggae check every day on this show just in part because I love the music and I know quite a lot of people listening to it love this music but also because I just think it's cultural importance in this city of ours in this small cultural city that we all embrace now is. It's a you can't overestimate it that's how we all grew up with it will grow up within you know you've carved schooldays also our life's you know it's part of the fabric definitely when we were doing this before there was a word when we culture Yeah we didn't think it's anything clever it's just what you did you know you went out there in your amongst it it was there I mean I guess for you know for many of the older this is out of this is my add to this now that 1st generation of scar and Blue beat and stuff in particular you know rock steady stuff the and the Trojan records that was that was the music of the playground it wasn't obscure Was it that's why it was in the charts which people tend to forget you know yeah it was Top Of The Pops you know probably I mean that doesn't. Really Exist. Just everywhere you know you go to a youth club you covered disco as I called and then you know when you go to someone's house everyone always at the side that. There was just there you know answer never understand why was sudden I known him and this is obscure music was and it was everywhere but it did I guess I mean that would have reached his peak around about what 6970 that 1st generation was yeah that a big chart is it's sort of in my mind at least it sort of went away a little bit sore 727375 maybe because I started to do a low to over here a little bit tonight in string sitting and actually trying to make their calls where these won't pop because we're no might in fact I think all the way through the 2 light years we know Carolina and Sean Paul none of those were made as pop because they're all made as reggae records for the call the audience and that's what makes a hit but it definitely came back big style round about $76.00 or so it was because that's what this compilations about radio that's what I mean you know that you know there is a much top story with the moxie club which was the punk club emo good they had no locals it was Years Eve are no records to play because I made him yet. And don't let's was a D.J. There and played right field in those space with Meghan music and it was in vice you know by the audience which is fantastic and you know and that became a crossover in those bands. As evidence Leah covered like a clash famously depletion city's new order did Kate Hudson trackless on the Turn your heater on for the jump session. You know that's really I mean even Molly joins in with the punky regulars on either that's why exactly any one takes some of the bands at the time so I don't argue that the thing really start in 75 with the Lyceum concert with Bob Marley is that all of a sudden it's acceptable like again I'm going to know it doesn't stand a sign which you've been telling me for the last. All our book knowledge different now it's just the tip of the iceberg it's all there for you to listen to and it kind you know I'd like to think that's what definitely came from that was the real big break but I also think there's a kind of a particular in a London context there's something a little bit deeper going on which is if you've got people like we going to plan as would track like when you've got guys from a sword going up in my book you know lines of labrat Grove and all that and some stuff happening down in Brixton the same stuff happening in our choice where the punk rockers come from Johnny Leyden is out of Troy most of the 6 forces are Shepherds Bush and laboratory The Clash are our laboratory you're hearing that stuff absolutely of the time it's part of this exactly the same sonic fabric exactly it's nice and also the people you know your friends yet within mixed you know of course so you would definitely I mean it was exciting is that you know that what began Also I was doing a band's usually to support bands but we come in and do those concerts so you get shame 69 supported by a similar you know on our member scene same shame 16 on your act and all the know yet what kicked off. What I had said Robert those you feel really hear for sure you know you look at life in your hands going to see it and that's for sure but let's just say that some of the writers boards of the grove. And I know they could be a couple of friends talk about you know. Actually so I wasn't using Bryce 200 percent no absolutely but but there was a kind of there was a sort of a cultural recognition between the 2 losses were wasn't there yeah exactly you know you've got. Well you start to see white people at my guy shows more often when really there was a handful of what are you actually you'd stand out in a crowd you know them exactly so so that was a big thing and it become quite you know they start coming on a 100 Club what I mean remember Joe shot a singing up in a white man at Mr Percivale. With that song was very much the genesis for this project really was it you know we only pay for Record Store Day with a track from each other for its last year and then we thought because no had the poster for the show right which we reproduced and it was great because of the post on on the back it lists all the shops where you buy the tickets for that's really exciting because it's like barbershops and no longer there except for and we thought oh we can make this and until the story better you know so. You're Mr Green Something Well we're hoping we're going to take for touch 30 years now so I think that's a new play because you know a lot see the golden years. But most of this stuff was not Greece leaves you know I think there were 2 great 6 tracks or 2 like 2 U.K. Groups capital letters from well Hampton on there they have said the big hit was smoking again Joe got you case going on there and also to make a very good as he would of very 1st record it Greensleeves released was it yes so that was where his job because I always think of grace is much more of a darts a kind of label Oh yes I mean you know when John Joe does drugs I lost Michael's comment it changed everything we can now see any man that was reading when you know we were in large definitely but begin is obviously from the shop which you would know you know from Shepherd's Bush. Years and 1st because well you can come to Lex was a 1st at 1st we only saw him get the shot was gone everything was in and I just wrote that down so no bandwagon is there on the wagon the other one what they were the right place at the right so I think that established all that already before they go Gaiman Jonjo Yeah and drinks it as we get in you don't know 61 thing about green so I guess it just kind of kept on going to the new thing is there was another link between the kind of musically and sonically it a totally different punk and. You know they did have a kind of a rebel rock up thing going on both sides when it can't sides a song about so it is by fun took upon the police to kindly have been stopped and searched I think you know and so yeah you know I think you know we know the punk scene vice guy probably less than the other way so yeah yeah yeah there were many eggs out across there trying to have a direct exactly but I know but they could recognize of the belly of spit definitely and those type of money you know quotes in a song. As misperceived when it got serious with the rock against rice and rice and think yeah there was something worthwhile going on there and they were just joined together with that which I thought was great Absolutely I mean and if you remember you Tom I remember friends like that John Lied and saying you know that when he got beat I got attacked in the street for being John learned that the record he played to come for himself was Dr elemental honor a Purple Heart. For a purpose I know what you could you still couldn't live in west London with that same best dressed chicken in town very much of. It was what I said was not a fabric it was literally part of that yeah it was an I think that show he did for Capital Radio Johnny Law and you know turned a lot of people on to reggae music and gave an acceptance as well didn't we got a lot of new customers coming down the still so I never this I've got that you know . As he was it's our plight is on the right you know. How does the British stuff stand up I mean because you've got you've got. Still pulser on there as water on there I mean some I didn't I wasn't I didn't not have sandwich I bought a place in youth in the grove came out soon after the you know the law it was an associate Yes I was a response to that so you know what I was a nice one to include does the British stuff stand up do you think I think so yeah I mean and you know they're still going you know that's might not will be the same but as of as wanted out there you still possibly move to states 2 big shows regulars encapsulate as we're doing shows last year you know and still about some of them and also it would be fair to say the room. In culture and of this we saw seeing a bit of revival of that in Jamaica as well now it kind of got forgotten for a while yeah I guess it does because always being the east you know what's popular and you know stops and downs but yeah the focus is very much on it so you got There's no it's not. Exactly exactly an opinion about ensuring our success was I mean Connick sold out the palace was 10000 why am I using credit so I don't own this couple weeks ago yeah so you know shows a still a lot of love out for making music that's for sure yeah I think that is and while the show goes on they'll be a reggae track played every day because I actually write and I actually think it is it's the rhythm of our city it's why you know all of that is what with that slightly strange. Sound of my wife. Because you know if you're living in bricks that know you're living in blubber Grover you have an owl's that all somewhere you go. Through to hear what we're going to play one more check we're going to play a homegrown one from these 2 and this isn't as what track free Babylon tell us a bit about this looking like the March we're talking about this kind following from that so it was a kind of response to you know that stop and search and let's and I want to you know the top group sort of yeah and they really weren't you know they were in there or in amongst you know leopard Grove Yeah the lions of library in the heart but here we go this is from step forward it's a fantastic compilation roots masters from the punky reggae party President thank you. For your. So you try. To write. Because. It was. Really. Tough. Terry. Cohen. Thank you. 3 as warden juggled 0 Very good afternoon ROBERTS Oh gosh it's real countdown to Christmas isn't it yeah you know I don't know if you notice you were you would you were working on Saturday is cold and beta are a wonderful. Goal that is love. And I know I don't want to go anywhere you want to partly because that's one of the days the high street guarantee on spending a lot of money and we really didn't and apparently didn't spend much online either we also hear today I can't remember how many I'll get this right by the time I come on air but quite a few Laura Ashley shops on the high street have now closed so we will be talking about this actually out trends in spending people are just not spending as much as usually people just go crazy in this last week we are going to talk about that right at the end of my show at the top of the show one of the few female London cabdrivers Karen space my goodness me she's got a tale to tell including men who offer her money to spend the night with them the way men treat if she's she says one man offered 160 quid and went please go home don't work throughout the night take this money have the money now go home because you shouldn't be out here at night is dangerous for a woman driving a wonderful story she maintains her cab smells better than. I can imagine the top listening to this getting furious anyway she's on at the top of the show then made . From the magic gallery in Mayfair is going to be here talking about art for Christmas if you buy Christmas gifts in all it is a bear very personal thing is it not buying someone underwear you know you need to know what they look like before you go buying art for people so we get to be talking about that then we can i love now do you say sloth still sloth sloth I don't know if that's so very often but I'd. Like slug. Yes I say sloth but my views you keep saying sloth. We're going to be talking this this guy he's from Cambridge educated mathematician he's obsessed with he's written this wonderful book including pictures that they have. Exactly the behavior of a. Poor I don't do. Because they look like they're wearing masks and they can swivel their heads almost 360 degrees so we're going to be talking about slaw sloths and also if you could write a book about your favorite animal what animal would it be what animal would have big I know you're going to say a goldfish a lot more goldfish and I knew a lot hardly that. Came up is the thing to say on a ride along to. The. Trees like. Greek. You much. Ballyhooed Yankee. Is. To say by. Christmas Day. Know that this. Is. Over for the next 3 and a half hours. This . Christmas and I'm back home tomorrow. That's it 130 not told 3130 time for the news headlines tomorrow. London's headlines Good afternoon Downing Street said there were plans to allow parliament of 8 on a series of possible. It's been suggested by several couple of ministers that if trees my steel is voted down and peace should be allowed a non-binding votes on alternative options civil liberties campaign as say the facial recognition technology being trolled by the Met Police in the West End this week is authoritarian and highly inaccurate Scotland Yard says the technology will help in the fight against violent crime and might be used. New research by scientists King's College London has shed light on the possible causes of conic fatigue syndrome also known as M 80 they now believe the condition he suffers experience extreme tautness is linked to an active immune system on the doors been made for the last 16 of the Champions League Manchester United face Paris Anjum unliveable play Bay in Munich Meanwhile taught them also take on the Bundestag aside Dortmund the draw for the last 32 of the Europa League has also been made Chelsea player and also will take on bought a bar self London's either a dry and bright afternoon with highs of 10 degrees Celsius that's 50 Fahrenheit now with the B.B.C. Radio London travel his Fianna Macand then. Thanks very much B.B.C. Radio London travel his latest and take a look at probably transport 1st of all South West the railways services have delays of up to 45 minutes and some cancellations still falling in emergency services instance Maybury lands Alyona the line has reopened between served in Clapham Junction but Lazar main there are still some supplementary buses running as well between working at Hampton Court and the mold and also between working and Virginia Water 7 trains are not stopping southbound at Brockley on a park or Forest Hill after a 2nd problem and there's still no London Overground service between New Cross Gate and West Croydon and Crystal Palace because of emergency engineering work needing to be done in New Cross Gate now to service in inclement road is blocked northbound now from the monk fields church passage that's because of a broken down lorry needs Surbiton station quite a few buses are on diversion include the route $7112.00 and $3.00 to do expect delays in the area and the A 3 way Hampton Court Road is still very slow eastbound from Hampton Court maze to Kingston Bridge now with the M 25 and clockwise from Junction 14 Heathrow to 13th stains the inside lane is closed there's a broken down lorry in the inside lane. 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