#general echo

Regular reggae disco in North-East London playing dub, dancehall, roots, rockers, ska, rocksteady and other bass transmissions on two turntables and a space echo. The night is named after sadly departed MC Earl Anthony Robinson, the voice behind classic deejay tunes such as "Drunken Master". Our first event of 2019 is a relaxed mid-week dubwise session. Sets from the resident General Echo Sound System selectors plus guest Toby Oliver from Blackhorse Road's Pulse studios. Free to get in, come down and listen to some nice tunes in Walthamstow's loveliest pub - a short walk from Walthamstow Central station with an affordable bar, though please note it's only accessible via a flight of stairs. 

Weds 20 Feb 2019 at The Victoria, 186 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, London

General Echo DJs selecting some militant dub and other protest tunes at this event tonight at the William Morris Gallery: 

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BLACK TIME UPDATE FROM THE AFTERLIFE, AUTUMN 2016 EDITION

Not a spectacularly active year for our dead band - we nearly played a show, but didn’t, we’re outnumbered by small children who demand a roof over their heads rather than us painfully trying to re-learn 2-chord songs, the selfish bastards. I still see quite a lot of the gang though. Janie Too Bad played a killer DJ set of obscuro punk 45s at my birthday party. Mr Stix is teaching himself to play the piano and has been locked away in his flat recording stuff, and started a band with Emily which I haven’t heard yet but I’m sure will be awesome. He’s also working at the House Of Lords which is pretty bizarre! Lowdown revived The Smear for a one off special at the Static Shock Weekender, occasionally let’s one of my kids have a go on his skateboard, and been cementing his reputation as Walthamstow’s strongest man (it’s true, DO NOT MESS). 

I’ve been keeping myself out of mischief by starting a reggae night in my local pub. Upwards of 3 people mingle mid-week once a month to hear me and Dan smear dub siren over a pile of crackly Jamaican vinyl. If you’re ever in London whilst it’s on then I can tell you, it’s the place to be if you want to play darts on a sticky carpet to a King Tubby soundtrack. Check in here for gratuitous pictures of speaker stacks and close-ups of hand-drawn dub labels http://generalechoes.tumblr.com/.

Midnight Mines continue their glacial pace of one recording session a year, but the tapes released so far (Dancehall Style / Mother’s Mod Lament / Insect Doom) have now been joined by a vinyl LP - ‘If You Can’t Find A Partner Use A Wooden Chair’ - 9 tracks pressed to black wax in a numbered edition of 200 with hand-stamped labels and an insert with my usual rambling nonsense on it, on our own Mystery Plane imprint. Get at it here: https://midnightmines.bandcamp.com/. We have a tumblr as well which I update about as often as this one (http://midnightmines.tumblr.com/). Fourth tape ‘Dimension Dolls’ is imminent, as are solo tapes from Private Sorrow and Baron Saturday, and a collaborative effort with Clean Robert of Mor Paranoids/Quickies, who also guests on the LP.

And that my friends is all the news that’s fit to print. Buy the City Yelps and Horrid albums. Pray Leicester’s decline into the bottom half of the table stops at some point. Stay busy, out of phase, in love.