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  • BROTHER CULTURE  Setting the record straight
  • REGGAETOWN  A Taste of Paris
  • WHAT NEXT FOR THE HERB? Don’t wait around for legalization …
  • LETTER from King Shiloh
  • NEWS from Ireland, Serbia, Colombia, Germany
  • REVIEWS New releases and revival, represses

“It’s the volcanic ash,” said the man at the airport
check-in, explaining why I couldn’t get on the plane
to Ireland. “Brimstone,” I said, nodding. I wanted to
tell him that it was one of the signs of the End Times,
but telling jokes in airports is dangerous these
days. It’s an upside down world.

We don’t worry about the End of the World here at IRIE UP – we hold to the idea that the world ends every moment, and starts every moment too. But we do talk to a lot of people who are waiting for ‘The End’ – some final ‘apocalypse’ when everything blows up. Admittedly, there are a lot of promising signs for doom mongers – earthquakes, famines, fire … and brimstone.

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  • Tribe Works Sound (Japan) Setting the record straight
  • Interview – Sugar Minott , father of dancehall
  • Reggaetown: Hamburg
    Production Something
  • Irie Up Summer Tour
  • News from Ireland, USA, Russia, Germany, Italy
  • Reviews New releases, revival
  • Magic & Mythology
When artists noticed the tiny amount of royalties being paid by a new digital streaming service, the service promised that the money would eventually ‘trickle down’ to the artists. Hmm, we thought … that sounds familiar.

The recent economic disasters are the end result of the policies of Reagan and Thatcher. Following worldwide recessions in the 1970s, government policies and regulations were abandoned in favour of so called “free market” economics. Reagan’s philosophy was to increase the wealth of the rich, so that wealth would eventually ‘trickle-down’ to ordinary people.
It was known as ‘Reagonomics’, and was an illusion. In the reggae business, we have ‘Reggaenomics’, which is pretty much the
opposite of Reaganomics…

Read more in Issue Three.