Comments on: Dub and/or Reggae Music

By: Selwyn Nogood

Selwyn Nogood — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:40:54 +0000

Yes. But I said it first.

By: Dman

Dman — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:20:06 +0000

This says more or less the same:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2009/04/22/125-bob-marley/

By: overdub

overdub — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:53:12 +0000

fck yeah, Im sick of it, i tried to go to every “summer festival” “pohutukawa festival” “scallop festival” “summer fete” etc etc etc that we get bombarded with every fckn year, and I tried to “skank” and appreciate these new NZ sounds that all me and my white mates that used to listen to fckn good guitar music like oasis and the pixies and all that and after 5 yrs of being back in owteroa and trying to skank with cargo short and singlet wearing dorks with dreads and jandels at some coro park getting sunburnt, or worse, people like me with short hair and real jobs that pay heaps trying to look like potters from colville skan around drinking “summer ale”…..fck it, I nearly wanted to go live in dunedin and get back to the “flying nun sound”…jeeesus….anyway, kiwi skanking dub was a few years ago i think as how actually bought the last black seeds album or fat freddys dump anyway? perhaps I should go back to my coop…
hope you see the funny side of that

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:33:33 +0000

It’s made so much more tragic by how original they all think the local dub is as well, when like much else, it’s 10-20 years behind the global scene!

By: souljahtrain

souljahtrain — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:04:09 +0000

our band the souljahtrain would like to b added 2 the line up sus us out on my space get back to us asap as thi is goin to every festival in nz

By: TrueKIwiJoker

TrueKIwiJoker — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:06:45 +0000

What’s funny is that many of these people into this so-called ‘Wellington sound’ know sweet Fanny Adams about Reggae and Caribbean music.

I can well remember once sharing a lab at university with someone who told me he was a huge fan of dub music. I said (hoping for some album exchange) “Oh great I’ve got some albums of Gregory Isaacs and Prince far I”. He looked blankly back at me. He’d seriously never heard of them, it turned out he was a huge lover of dub by virtue of liking (and being associated with members of) the Black Seeds.

His knowledge of Reggae music seemed to be this; fat freddies drop, the black seeds, Bob Marley, Eddie Grant and Inner circle. He’d never heard of even Desmond Dekker or the Mighty diamonds and thought Jimmy Cliff was a mid 90’s one hit wonder LOL.
I strongly suspect the majority of these reggae fans in NZ fan into the same category, listening to Bob Marley (which while mostly quite good is mostly Raggae-styled pop music).

By: James

James — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:42:57 +0000

I think dub is the lesser of two evils, the other being AC/DC, Guns and Roses and the like, on permanent rotation. I know what I’d rather be listening to in any restaurant I frequent.

By: Everybody Hates Auckland « (Manifesto of Nothing.)

Everybody Hates Auckland « (Manifesto of Nothing.) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:59:42 +0000

[...] plenty of these annoying local affections to the attention of the internet world. Affections like dub, tattoos, patriotic tee shirts and desire for worldly [...]

By: UB40 4eva

UB40 4eva — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:56:13 +0000

You know summer’s here when you hear incessant overuse of the word “skanking”. Apparently it interchangably means either swishing about in purple, housebus-curtain pants twirling fire pois, or just freely smoking dak out of a wizard bong while listening to Aotearoa-steppa-nu-roots-dub-breaks, which incidentally is not a groundbreaking new sound but rather shithouse, recycled basslines recorded badly in creative-collective Wellington flats.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:21:35 +0000

dude dub’s awesome