Ace Cafe London’s annual Scooter Sunday, to be held at the cafe 9am to 5pm, Sunday 12th April, celebrates not only the two-wheeled blue smoke of Lambrettas and Vespas, but also the 67th anniversary of Tamla/Motown established Detroit in 1959 and the 58th anniversary of the 1968 founding in London NW10 of Trojan Records.
Trojan’s rapid growth during its first year was due in no small part to the development of a working-class youth movement that embraced, this then new to Britain, Jamaican Reggae music as part and parcel of its culture. The purchasing power of this fast developing young demographic resulted in an explosion in sales in the summer of 1969, a moment known and recognised since by the term “Spirit of ‘69”!
DJ Stompy will be playing the best in Soul (Atlantic, Stax, Tamla), old school Trojan Reggae, Ska and Rocksteady, from artists like Desmond Dekker, Jimmy Cliff, Prince Buster, Justin Hinds, The Pioneers, Toots & the Maytals and a whole lot more with “Nowhere to Run”, “Get Ready” for a magnificent Double-Barrel day of the “Most turnin’ stormin’ sound o’soul”, skanking, stompin, n’ “Dancing in the Street” at the Ace from noon.
See links:
https://trojanrecords.com/
https://trojanrecords.com/the-trojan-records-story/
https://www.facebook.com/TrojanRecords/
See you at the Ace!
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