Lightplanke

A new bar has opened at Sielwall, directly at the spot that I would usually avoid because it used to be a junkie hang out. Anyway, I was invited by Roots Ashanti MC Ben who plays some tunes there every Tuesday night now so I went there to take a few pictures which I posted in a little Slide show here.

To my surprise it's a lovely little bar with very colourful walls and a nice new owner who seems very easy going. You can actually smoke in there which is a relief to some - not me. But the vibe was nice and we had a chat with some mellow reggae chunes in the background. The music was so nice, some people got up to dance.

So, hopefully the bar will have a long future and many more happy guests to tell the tale!

One love

Chrissie

Reggae Nights # 99

The evening was not announced for some reason, yet a lot of people turned up for the dance and made it a lovely event! As usual you can see the photos of the event hosted by Roots Ashanti alongside Calabash Sound in my slide-show on full screen here.

Roots Ashanti

Calabash Sound

 The next event will take place in the same venue April 9 and will be the anniversary edition.

Hope to see you all there!

Nuff love

Chrissie

Launch of Reggaespace.com

On March 5, 2011 the new reggae radio site www.reggaespace.com was launched by numerous DJs from around the world playing sets of one or two hours each.

The line up was: Pablo P (UK), Lady Coopz (UK), DJ 745 with DJ Wanted, Rootical, Black Vinyl Magic and Mr Feelgood at his studio in the UK, then Queen Easy with Mighty Howard (Germany) followed by Yendis (UK) with several interviews with Damas (JA), Mamadee alongside Born Free (Germany) and Don Minott (US). DJ Coolmo (US) took over after that, then MassiveR (NL), Williams (UK) and Idread (UK) who played till the night was done.

I recorded the whole session and you can listen to it here: Launch Of Reggaespace. I think you can also download it from there (on the left) and cut out your segment of the show if you so wish since the whole file is 719 MB large and 13 hours and 6 minutes long. Let me know how it goes!

I did make one segment for my friends from Leicester, UK and you can listen to it or download it here.

For the future I wish the management who are Queen Easy from Hamburg and Yendis from Telford, UK and their station much success and many listeners. It was wonderful meeting most of you at Reggae By The River in Hamburg and I look forward to meeting again soon.

Keep the vibes alive!

Photo-Update Reggae by the River

I have added some more photos to my slide show which I had previously not finished. They include all the artists who appeared on the night: Imishango, Mighty Howard, Fyahnaki, Peter Lloyd with Born Free and Don Minott.

You may leave me a comment if it's nice!

One love
Chrissie ;-)

Reggae By The River

On Saturday February 27, 2011 I was invited to Reggae On The River in Hamburg, Germany which took place for the first time to celebrate Queen Easy's birthday but also the upcoming launch of www.reggaespace.com.

The dance was located right by the portside at Hafenklang, Goldener Salon from where you could see massive ships passing into the port of Hamburg if you had time to take a glance out of the window! 

There really was not much time for ship-watching as there was a massive line-up of DJs and artists from around the globe who barely had time to play for about 20 to 30 minutes each to fit in one evening.

Besides that, I met so many people again and some people I had never met before and thus far only knew through online radio and other means of communication whom I wanted to capture in my photos.

As usual I made a slide show of the ones that turned out (and some that are not focussed too well) to share the vibe. You may watch the slide show in my next blog entry.
 
Thanks go out to Queen Easy and everyone who made it happen and a wonderful night not to be missed! Hope to see you all soon!

Please feel free to link me on facebook where
I will also be posting the photos.

One love

Chrissie