#dacehall

Nice use of three exclamation marks. This is Saxon Sound's first live dancehall recording released by a label, UK Bubblers, although Saxon Sound had been on the Live At D.S.Y.C with other sound systems that Raiders put the year before.

Saxon Studio International sound system was founded by Lloyd ‘Musclehead’ Francis and Denis Rowe. Saxon Sound came from Lewisham in Southeast-London. Lewisham has produced many notable sound systems like Freddie Cloudbursts' early sound system where a young Jah Shaka cut his teeth, Jah Shaka's now legendary sound system began here in the early 1970s, and Saxon. "Saxon Studio played reggae extensively in the network of youth clubs, house parties and churches that offered alternative public spheres for black Londoners."[1] places like The Crypt in St Paul’s Church, 51 Lewisham Way, Lewisham Youth Club, and the Warehouse which was across the road from Jah Shaka's Culture Shop. Coughing Up Fire!!! was recorded at the Factory London W9, that's West-London and I can't find anything about the Factory. “It’s not insignificant that a lot of the people concerned [in the 1970s and 80s] were now second generation,” says Soft Wax of Deptford Dub Club. “[They were the] people who had been to school here, and were not as prone to compliance.”[2] Saxon's DJ's are noted for creating an English style, their delivery and storytelling is uniquely different from the Jamaicans, at that time none of them had probably ever been to Jamaica

There's a couple of members of the Saxon Posse not on Coughing Up Fire!!! this might have been because they had contracts with other labels like Smiley Culture, Asher Senator, and Peter King did with Fashion, or, it could be because "it is known that around 1983 some of the Saxon MC’s started a crew called „Crucial Posse“ involving Peter King along with Maxi Priest, Papa Levy, Smiley Culture and Asher Senator. Some of those MC’s went back to Saxon later." quote

One member who came back was Papa Levi who as it says on the sleeve had a deal with Island music

[1] https://www.lewisham.community/henry-and-back-2021.pdf excerpt from a book telling a psychogeographic history of reggae music in Lewisham (although they avoid calling it psychogeography, probably because it's associated with hipsters now.) There's a typo in it where they talk about "45-inch singles" which made me laugh

This is The Reggae Map of New Cross they produced

[2] https://lewishamledger.tumblr.com/post/178173989606/sound-people I was trying to remember the names of venues in Lewisham, this is a great resource

Sound cuts out for the first 2 minutes, start 2 minutes in