Author: RasC

Started in 1989 as DJ in Lucerne, Switzerland. Organized & managed ska & reggae shows with Laurel Aitken, Selecter, Maroon Town, Trojans, Bim Skala Bim, Messer Banzani, Mad Lighters, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Lee Scratch Perry between 1991 to 2000. Toured with The Skatalites 1995 to 1997. Met The Skatalites for the first time in 1992 after riding my bicycle for 600 miles in St. Nazaire in France. Playing the flute since 1980. On stage with several bands since 1992: Peacestreet, Shame & SKAndal in the family, Ska-ta-leicht, Der Transformer and as guest with The Skatalites and Court Jesters Crew. Playing music as C-lector C or DJ Clat all around Europe. Played for 12 hours at the Züri Fäscht in 2010 or at the Festi-Val-de-Roots in 2005 or at FestiNeuch in 2016 together with NoF-NoF.

September 28, 1996 – Café Mokka, Thun

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Today, 20 years ago there is this very nice invitation to a fantastic club in the beautiful city of Thun. It is the last preparing event before the Skasplash tour starts. I know the club already, because 6 years ago (in 1990) I was there with my bicycle to meet Laurel Aitken and asked him to show up in Lucerne for The Roots Connection. In the cellar of this very nice place, there is a disco. While upstairs the german Ska band “No Sports” is playing, I’m almost alone downstairs. But after the show, the place is more than full. Later that evening, the

September 14, 1996 – Peacestreet | Peacestreet

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What is Peacestreet? Peacestreet is a band from Lucerne, Switzerland (1990-1995) Peacestreet is also the address of our flat (in fact it was René’s) in Lucerne (1989-1996) What have Peacestreet to do with Skasplash? Without Peacestreet I would never be a part of the Skasplash. Our band is called “Peacestreet” 1990-1995 (take a look at rootsconnection.ch) (Simon [drums], René [bass], Nonsi [guitar] and I [flute, trombone] are still together as part of Der Transformer). There is one release of Peacestreet on the Benno Riedmann compilation “Skampler 2” and we play shows all around Switzerland. But the source of our band’s name

Can’t wait no more

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I’m writing and researching so much, but the blog background is closed. There are so many questions in my brain, how to do this, how to do that? But the best is, just to do it. On September 14, there will be the next event to be blogged here… so come back soon.