Sorry all but Sud-West tonight is cancelled. Still a risk of rain and damp-cold evening on forecast. It’s a tough call as could be an okay night still, but with no permanent PA at St. Ambroise terrace we need to confirm/cancel PA rental mid-afternoon and run risk of paying for PA we don’t end up using.

Ghostbeard going down a long dark tunnel…Currently dusting off some jungle classics for this old-school throw-down… and remember kids… when I say old-school… I was actually there and everything! Come listen to Grandpa Ghostbeard tell you about the early 90’s… sonically that is.

Summertime… and the living is easy…

Here’s your tune of the summer… woman of the moment Natalie Storm comes in dub-plate style on Poirier’s “90’s Backyard (Wildlife mix) for the big man Ghostbeard. Original taken from new Poirier album “Running High”… cop it if you haven’t done so already.

And make sure to check Natalie’s latest jam with Sticky “Look Pon Me” (in fact you can hear it in my last mix… scroll down kids… scroll down)

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We’re back… your favorite franco-anglo selectors, Poirier & Ghostbeard, return to take over the St. Ambroise patio each Tuesday through the summer. Beats, beer, and BBQ… for the low low price of FREE!

Ancient sun gods got nothing on me… I’ve been to Egypt and my sound is still the champion sound.

New mix… starting off with some versions on the very excellent Prisonbreak Rhythm, couple jams from the new South Rakka’s joint, and leaning heavily on Poirier’s forthcoming Running High album for material because it’s just not easy to choose one tune (and hey… if I’ve got to do the paperwork for it… I’m going to cramp his style). If you were at the big big Karnival V.2 last weekend you’d have heard most of this go down…

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01 Is Bigger Than Amun-Re

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Jan 27th…This weekend… Saturday…the return of Poirier’s “Karnival”… V.2 promises another night of all the hottest Caribbean (from and influenced by) jams…

Part of Nuit Blanche… which means it’s all going down for the low low price of FREE!

Poirier, Ghostbeard, Bonjay, and Valeo on the decks and mics… BIG!

Guaranteed to provide the hangover you need to watch Canada win hockey gold on Sunday (please god don’t make me have to edit this post in 5 hours…).

On road with King Cannibal this week.

Feb 9th (tonight) : NYC (Santos House Party) w/ King Cannibal, Beans & Priest (Anti-Pop), and Ghostbeard.

Feb 13th : SF (Club Six) : King Cannibal, Ghostbeard, Ripley, and more… Valentines lover rock reggae in effect.

Now with flyer…

Remember, this Thursday :

Thursday, Feb 4th
Passeport (2037 St. Denis)

Synkro
King Cannibal
Ghostbeard
Wally

$8 advance (Moog/Atom Heart) and $12 at door

Yeah… so… holy shit… Igloofest… -30 and 5000+ people. Everyone on that bill smashed it.

And now King Cannibal is swinging back through Montreal for a smaller/warmer gig alongside myself &  fellow dub-step Brit, Synkro

Thursday, Feb 4th
Passeport (2037 St. Denis)

Synkro
King Cannibal
Ghostbeard
Wally

$8 advance (Moog/Atom Heart) and $12 at door

And also to look forward to… big big Nuit Blanche edition of Karnival! With Poirier, Bonjay, myself, an Valeo. Guaranteed messy…

This is kind of a random post… but fuck it… I’m uploading files and bored.

While travelling in Tanzania last month and explaining to someone what I do, the question was asked how I got into reggae/dub, and additionally what was it that kept me drawn to it.

The answer to #1 is simple… while working at a record store in the 80’s I stumbled across Linton Kwesi Johnson’s “Live In Concert” album and was blown away enough to realize I needed to start looking past those Bob Marley albums that I was casually aware of.

#2 is much harder to answer, but recently I’ve been digging out my old Joe Gibbs Disco Mixes (and thanks to VP just got sent a bunch of CD collections also), and I think I can sum it up here… basically on this version of George Nooks ‘Tribal War” (one of my all time favorites)… if I could sell my house, buy a piece of land, and build a house on the space occupied during the  3:45 to 5:30 minute mark of this track… I think that would be the best place to live ever…

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