Nestafari Sounds

03/05/2024

01/04/2024

📅 FRI 12 APRIL ⇩
The original Rebel Dread, Don Letts presents an epic DJ set!! 🎧 🔥

The Grammy award-winning director, DJ and musician gets behind the wheels of steel for a night of legendary dub reggae at The Bunkhouse ❤️💛💚

Don Letts’ reputation has been firmly established in both the film and music worlds by a substantial body of work from the late 70's to the present day. He is a presenter and continues to DJ nationally and internationally, showcasing the best old and new school dub reggae.

His sets are in the spirit of his time, as a DJ at London’s legendary Roxy Club back in ’77, he is known for 'single handedly turning a whole generation of punks onto reggae' ⚡

🕙 Doors 22.00
🎟 £13.50 ADV / £20 ADV for pre-gig + DJ set

Before the club night, you can also enjoy the Funke and the Two Tone Baby gig! Head to our website to grab yourself a bargain and use the special limited offer on tickets for both events!

Get tickets ⇨ https://bunkhousebar.gigantic.com/don-letts-the-rebel-dread-tickets/swansea-the-bunkhouse/2024-04-12-22-00

03/02/2024

The “Family Man”
Nov 22, 1946 - Feb 03, 2024

I’m getting goose bumps as I write this. Aston “Family Man” Barrett, has passed away. What’s happening in this world of Reggae? The trail blazers are leaving us one by one.

Steel Pulse breathed, ate, slept, lived and worshipped Family Man’s bass lines. “Natural Mystic,” “Them Belly Full,” “Kinky Reggae,” “Crazy Bald Head,” “Heathen,” “Race Race,” “Smile Jamaica,”….let me draw the line right there, or else we won’t be able to complete this text. All his bass lines were “home runs.” And if you are into cricket, they were like “sixes.” In other words, they were all knocked completely out of the ball park.

Aston “Family Man” Barrett. What a genius. Now, 43 years after Bob’s passing his bass lines are copied over and over and over again by those within and outside of the genre that saw the necessity to emulate that low frequency of a drug we all got hooked on. For those who have never met Family Man, well, he was a man of very few words, whose bass guitar was even taller than he was. He would allow you to lead the conversation. I believe it was his way of saying “Hmmm, I’ll let my bass lines do the talking!” We have followed Family Man throughout the years and felt his pain when he lost his father (1985), his brother Carly, back in 1987 and the cruel law suit he endured 18 years ago, that left him virtually bankrupt.

Nevertheless, we give thanks that we have been able to share the same stage with this legend, of which our last recollected experience was in Brazil, in 2012. The world will never bear witness to a musical union as it was with Bob Marley and the Wailers, featuring the original “Dynamic Duo,” the Barret Brothers. The good thing about a legend is that their achievements last forever. I dare any man to come forward in this reggae genre and claim these guys were never their teachers or biggest inspiration…. I dare you?!

Aston “Family Man” Barrett - your ingenuity is irreplaceable and eternal - you join the players of instruments.

RIP RIP…

23/01/2024

Today we recall the legend Joseph Hill on this his 75th Earth Strong! 🇯🇲🎶👑🎂🙌🏼❤️

Can’t believe he’s been gone from the flesh since 2006. Joseph and his music are an enormous influence on GROUNDATION, so much so we cannot put into words. We miss him dearly…continue to rest in complete love great teacher! 🙏🏼

12/01/2024

R.I.P. Annie Nightingale.

09/12/2023

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…goodbye my brother

08/12/2023

REGGAE LAND IS ON SALE NOW! ❤️💛💚

Get yours and join us for the BIGGEST Reggae Land yet on 3rd & 4th August at The Milton Keynes National Bowl, featuring a 100 + strong line up of reggae, dub, dancehall & jungle including Burning Spear, UB40 Ft Ali Campbell, Tarrus Riley & Morgan Heritage. 🇯🇲

Get yours HERE - https://reggaeland.co.uk/

09/11/2023

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Steel Pulse's "Rize" official music video with an introduction from frontman David Hinds. This song is from their 2019 GRAMMY-nominated album, MASS MANIPULAT...

01/10/2023

Marcia Griffiths, the Queen of Reggae, released her seventeenth studio album, Golden, on September 16, 2023. It is a collection of eleven tracks, featuring deep and intimate messages, as well as lighter themes, and sometimes seamlessly blending elements of reggae with other genres such as worldbeat.

03/09/2023

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13/01/2023

04/12/2022

Our thoughts and prayers are with the wonderful
🔥 FREDDIE MCGREGOR 🔥
who has suffered a stroke and is recovering at home.
WE LOVE YOU, FREDDIE!
❤️💛💚

29/10/2022

Bob Andy, born Keith Anderson, is celebrated as one of Jamaica's greatest songwriters, with a catalog including tracks like "Too Experienced," "My Time," "Sun Shines For Me," "Fire Burning," and "I've Got To Go Back Home," among dozens of evergreen anthems. 🙏🏽

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21/10/2022

Luciano Messenjah 🙌 (born Jepther McClymont) stepped into the reggae spotlight after the tragic passing of Garnet Silk in December 1994, becoming the next champion of dancehall’s revived cultural sound. “Poor And Simple” from 1993 was his first release on VP, followed by “One Way Ticket” and “Jah Is Alive,” and the album One Way Ticket in 1994, all produced by Fatis Burrell for Xterminator.

Luciano had major label releases through Chris Blackwell’s Island Jamaica in 1995 and 1996 but would reconnect with VP starting in 1999 with the outstanding Sweet Over My Soul. Eight more albums followed, including Serious Times in 2004 and its enduring anthem, “Give Praises.” Luciano has continued to release high quality music through the years, consistent with this original identity as a leading exponent of cultural reggae. Blessed Earthstrong!

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14/10/2022

Today we remember the wonderful
🔥 HUGH MUNDELL 🔥
senselessly shot dead on this day in 1983. The music lives on forever...
❤️💛💚

25/06/2022

05/06/2022

MASSIVE Roots & Culture Showcase coming to Birmingham UK, Saturday 13th August 2022 Featuring the Legendary Burning Spear, Johnny Clarke and Horace Andy. Hosted by Macka B

Promoted by JP Music Promotions, BJ Production and Wassifa Showcase

Tickets available from: https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/burning-spear-tickets/artist/733877

ONCE IN A LIFETIME ROOTS EXPERIENCE

03/06/2022

30/05/2022

Don Carlos Reggae started his singing career in 1973 as one of the original members of Black Uhuru Official alongside other founding members, Garth Dennis who later went on to joining the Wailing Souls, and Derrick Ducky Simpson. During the eighties dance hall mania, Don had five top ten hits between 1982 - 1985: Late Night Blues, Nice Time Tonight, Dice Cup, Hog & Goat, I’m Not Getting Crazy and Spread Out. Don is still churning out solid, melodic roots reggae. Check out the to see Don when he comes to your city: https://doncarlosinc.com/
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28/04/2022

🙌🏼 40 Years ago this month, released the 4th studio album by , simply titled Mundell…

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The album would become a cult classic and enhance the prolific 22-year-old singer’s reputation as one of the greatest in reggae. The release was his first on , which was becoming the most relevant label globally for new reggae in the early 1980s, and 1982 was a standout year with Mister Yellowman, Michael Prophet’s Gunman, Michigan and Smiley’s Downpression, and Johnny Osbourne’s Never Stop Fighting all hitting the racks.

Clocking in at just over 30 minutes, with its eight songs, Mundell arguably doesn’t have a weak moment, mixing largely spiritual lyricism, exemplified on “Red Gold and Green” and “Rasta Have The Handle,” and a handful of love songs, such as the spiteful “Jacqueline.” The sound represented a shift from the rough rockers of Augustus Pablo to the sparse rub-a-dub style associated with producer Henry Junjo Laws, the Roots Radics band, and engineer Scientist.

Within 18 months of its release and following one more album, Hugh Mundell was shot to death in a car while traveling with his close friend Junior Reid, depriving reggae of one of its shining lights. Greensleeves acquired Mundell's debut album Africa Must Be Free By 1983, and began reissuing it in 1986.

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10/04/2022

Remembering Bunny Wailer on this his Earthday 10th April

03/04/2022

Rest in Power king BUNNY DIAMOND - Mighty Diamonds
Fitzroy ‘Bunny’ Simpson, another member of reggae group Mighty Diamondss , passed away
He is the second member of the group to pass in recent days following Tuesday night’s murder of lead singer Donald ‘Tabby’ Shaw who was shot and killed during a drive-by shooting on McKinley Crescent St Andrew, Jamaica. (29.03.2022)
Bunny died Friday 01 april after a long battle with diabetes

The Mighty Diamonds is a Jamaican trio with a strong Rastafarian influence. The group was formed in 1969 and remained together until 2012. They are best known for their debut album Right Time

📸 Pearo

03/04/2022

Today the late Garnett Silk would have turned 55 years old. Instead he died a tragic death only 28 years of age when trying to rescue his mother from a burning house that had been set on fire because of accidental gun fire on a propane gas tank. Garnett Silk was survived by a wife, three children and two brothers.

At the time he had been laying down tracks for his second album with producer Errol Brown and ten tunes were completed and released several years later.

Garnett Silk was a prominent person in the early 90’s rasta renaissance, a time when a new breed of cultural singers entered the stage. Tony Rebel and Everton Blender were part of this movement.

He started his career deejaying as Little Bimbo with tunes such as See Bimbo Yah, but later adopted a style that was highly conscious showcasing his gospel influenced tenor voice. He marked a turning point in reggae and paved the way for singers such as Luciano, Jahmali, Bushman, Sizzla, Anthony B and rasta converts like Buju Banton and Capleton.

Bobby “Digital” Dixon was the mastermind behind his only full-length album – the astonishing 'It’s Growing' released in 1992. The album was an instant bestseller in Jamaica and Garnett Silk managed to secure an international record deal with Atlantic.

Even though he had a short career he recorded with some of Jamaica’s top talents, including King Jammy, Steely & Clevie, Richard “Bello” Bell and Sly & Robbie, dropping hit tunes like Fill Us Up With Your Mercy, Hello Mama Africa and Zion in a Vision.

03/04/2022

Another of the Mighty Diamonds gone in just a few days - RIP

Long Live Bunny 🙏🏽
Diamonds are forever

06/02/2022

Bob Marley 77th Earthstrong.

09/12/2021

R.I.P. Robbie Shakespeare

The great, great Robbie Shakespeare has passed on! Very sad. REST IN POWER

20/11/2021

Today I have released my 45th studio album. It is 3 days before my 77th birthday and I wanted to share this experience with you!

Go stream “World of Ghouls” on all digital platforms 🙏🏾

zojak.lnk.to/worldofghouls

16/11/2021

Best D.E.B. gig I ever went to. Back in the days when I was living in London, Brixton...