Festival Les Escales, St. Nazaire (France) from Fri, 21-August-1992 to Sun, 23-August-1992 with The Skatalites, Linton Kwesi Johnson & Dennis Bovells Dub Band, Fab 5. Yes, after the first NoF-NoF session in Neuchâtel, I take my bicycle to drive 600 miles to Saint Nazaire in western France. The plan is: Meeting The Skatalites for the […]
DJ Clat as part of The Roots Connection played a set of tunes at the NoF-NoF session in Neuchâtel on Saturday, August 15 in 1992. The story begins at the Mad Lighters show in Luzern (see this blog entry) when Alain Salvi heard my selection. He told this to NoF-NoF who was responsible for the […]
Chicky Monkey live at Wärchhof, Luzern on Wed, 15-April-1992 with DJ Ras Claude selecting around the show. The brief announcement says: “SKA is popular at Wärchhof. Put on your black-and-white shoes. The music and culture magazine “173” is hijacking you into the world of SKA. Live from Dijon: ‘Chicky Monky” (seen on picture) is the […]
El Bosso & Die Ping Pongs featuring Dr. Ring Ding live Sedel Fri, 14-February-1992 with DJ Ras Claude to support. By invitation from Martin Gössi this Ska event is a great success. I played the original version of Prince Buster “One Step Beyond”. Richi better known as Dr. Ring Ding is quite surprised to hear […]
Pauline Black & Neol Davis reformed The Selecter in 1991. It is The Roots Connection inviting The Selecter to Sedel Club on Monday, fourth of November 1991. DJ Ras Claude
Saturday, 28th of september 1991 live at Sedel. That was my very first live concert I planned and promoted. Togehter with Vesna I have built the Ska Connection agency to promote Ska events in Luzern. This was our first. At that time I was working in a record store in Luzern and saw this CD […]
Allnighter with DJ Ras Claude at Zentralstrasse 10 in Luzern on Fri, 21-June-1991. I have no flyer left from that event, but I’ve made this tape for my manager: Vesna. That night was a very special night. The place was sweat you could swim and it was hot like fire – burning. There is the […]
Disco at Boa with DJ Ras Claude christmas Monday, December 25, 1989 After the first try in June that year that ended up in Sedel (see post). This second try at Boa is planned more serious by Vesna. I can’t remember to have seen a flyer thou, but when we show up, everything was fine. […]
Augustus Pablo & The Rockers Band with Yami Bolo and Junior Delgado plus The Wailers at Volkshaus, Zürich on Friday, first of December 1989
Dizzy Gillespie conducts the United All-Stars Orchestra featuring Ed Cherry, Claudio Roditti, Slide Hampton at Kunsthaus, Luzern, Sunday, June 04 1989 I was in de audience when Dizzy Gillespie invited his United All-Stars Orchestra for a visit in Luzern. My brother took some nice pictures. I was recording more than two hours but still have no idea, what […]