BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:546@lewesconclub.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250815T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250815T230000 DTSTAMP:20250602T155944Z URL:https://www.lewesconclub.com/events/big-youth-abakush-band-and-easy-sk ankin-djs/ SUMMARY:Big Youth (Cancelled) DESCRIPTION:Due to reasons beyond our control we are sorry to announce this gig is cancelled.\n\nTicket holders will be refunded.\n\nEasy Skankin &am p\; African Night Fever presents: Live &\; Direct from Kingston Jamaica \n\nBig Youth\, Abakush Band + Easy Skankin DJs\n\nMixed by the Mad Profes sor\n\nOriginal ticket link: www.tickettailor.com/events/easyskankinltd/16 45841\n\nBar from 5:00pm. Doors 7.30pm - 11:00pm. Standing.\n\nTo celebrat e 45yrs of Ariwa records\, Joe Ariwa will be joined on stage by Jamaican s uperstars Big Youth and Abakush Band. They’ll be performing their tracks produced by Mad Professor along with their well known hits.\n\nOne of reg gae's best and most recognizable toasters\, Big Youth broke new ground as a DJ in the early '70s with a flowing\, chant-like cadence that was equal parts melodic\, relaxed\, and invigorating. His peak years between 1972 an d 1979 spawned roots classics like Screaming Target and Isaiah First Proph et of Old\, further solidifying Big Youth's style of applying his infectio us vocal approach to heavy social and political lyrical topics. Things slo wed down for the DJ in subsequent decades\, but he remained active well pa st his '70s heyday\, sporadically releasing new music\, like 2005 album Mu sicology and Beyond the Blue\, his 2021 collaborative album with French du b producer Brain Damage.\n\nThe marriage of digital production and reggae styles of the '80s didn't bode well for Big Youth\, however\, and his popu larity waned as the new decade began. He continued performing and recordin g throughout the '80s\, '90s\, and beyond\, further exploring new styles o n releases like his jazz-inflected 1985 album A Luta Continua or the digit al dancehall riddim of his 1991 single "Chanting." Big Youth's contributio ns to reggae culture in his early days made him an elder statesman by the 2000s\, and he continued releasing songs and albums every so often as coll ections of his '70s material began cropping up. In 2021\, now in his seven ties\, Big Youth teamed with producers Brain Damage and Samuel Claytonto w ork on the album Beyond the Blue. Both Brain Damage and Clayton traveled t o Jamaica in early 2020 to meet Big Youth and track vocals for the record\ , and while there\, both producers contracted COVID-19. Clayton\, who was born in Jamaica and had spent years working in the music industry\, died f rom the disease before the album was completed. Beyond the Blue was releas ed in May of 2021\, serving as Big Youth's first album of new material in over a decade.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lewesconclub.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2025/04/BigYouthB2025.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR