Dennis Bovell

Dennis Matumbi in dub: a step by step guide.

Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 3 December 1977

1. I'M PATCHING in the 16-track machine, the echo machine and the reverb into the plugboard. That brings the tape off the 16-track machine behind ...

Reggae from Home and Abroad

Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, September 1980

Linton Kwesi Johnson: Bass Culture (Mango); Blackbeard: I Wah Dub (UK, More Cut); Matumbi: Point of View (EMI America); Sugar Minott: Black Roots (Mango); Toots ...

Dennis Bovell's Dub Band: Commonwealth Institute, London

Live Review by Vivien Goldman, New Musical Express, 24 January 1981

"DUB," SAID Dennis Bovell, dubmaster, "you just — do it. Spontaneous. That's the effect I wanted to create onstage." ...

Dennis Bovell: Brain Damaged Goods

Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 15 August 1981

THE FINAL, apocalyptic scenes of Franco Rosso's excellent Babylon are based on a 1976 police raid on Cricklewood's Carib Club during a sound system session ...

The Dennis Bovell Dub Band; Matumbi: Dingwalls, London

Live Review by Lloyd Bradley, New Musical Express, 22 January 1983

DUB AT THE BLACKBOARD ...

Dennis Bovell: Heaven, London

Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 30 March 1983

FOR A MAN who is both producer, writer, performer and engineer, Dennis Bovell's career progresses at a frustrating and slow pace. As producer he seems ...

I See London

Report by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 30 March 1983

IF YOU'RE keen to witness a major cultural capital in hibernation, try being in London the week between Christmas and New Years. Just about everything ...

Running Off Copies, Blackbeard Treads The Boards: Dennis Bovell — Dub Juice On The Loose

Interview by Paul Bradshaw, New Musical Express, 7 April 1984

BACK IN THE STUDIO WITH DENNIS BOVELL AND THE DUB BAND, BLACKBEARD IS HUNGRY TO PLAY, PAUL BRADSHAW READY TO LISTEN ...

Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dennis Bovell Dub Band, Gasper Lawal, Orchestra Jazira: Hammersmith Palais, London

Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 9 February 1985

DUB CRAWL ...

Dennis Bovell

Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001

b. 1953, St Peter, Barbados ...

Bassists: Let's Stick Together

Overview by James Medd, The Word, February 2012

They are "the glue" that cements the music, the mysterious put-upon souls plying their crucial trade in a cloud of dry ice by the drum-riser. ...