BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.6.4.4//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:20250430T171153Z URL:https://www.lewesconclub.com/events/big-youth-sister-aisha-easy-skanki n-djs/ SUMMARY:Big Youth // Sister Aisha // Easy Skankin DJs DESCRIPTION:Easy Skankin &\; African Night Fever presents: Live &\; D irect from Kingston Jamaica\n\nBig Youth\, Sister Aisha + Easy Skankin DJs \n\nMixed by the Mad Professor\n\nTickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/eas yskankinltd/1645841\n\nBar from 5:00pm. Doors 7.30pm - 11:00pm. Standing.\ n\nTo celebrate 45yrs of Ariwa records\, Joe Ariwa will be joined on stage by Jamaican superstars Big Youth and Sister Aisha. They’ll be performi ng their tracks produced by Mad Professor along with their well known hits .\n\nOne of reggae'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 and 1979 spawned roots classics like Screaming Target and Isa iah First Prophet of Old\, further solidifying Big Youth's style of applyi ng his infectious vocal approach to heavy social and political lyrical top ics. Things slowed down for the DJ in subsequent decades\, but he remained active well past his '70s heyday\, sporadically releasing new music\, lik e 2005 album Musicology and Beyond the Blue\, his 2021 collaborative album with French dub producer Brain Damage.\n\nThe marriage of digital product ion and reggae styles of the '80s didn't bode well for Big Youth\, however \, and his popularity waned as the new decade began. He continued performi ng and recording throughout the '80s\, '90s\, and beyond\, further explori ng new styles on releases like his jazz-inflected 1985 album A Luta Contin ua or the digital dancehall riddim of his 1991 single "Chanting." Big Yout h's contributions to reggae culture in his early days made him an elder st atesman by the 2000s\, and he continued releasing songs and albums every s o often as collections of his '70s material began cropping up. In 2021\, n ow in his seventies\, Big Youth teamed with producers Brain Damage and Sam uel Claytonto work on the album Beyond the Blue. Both Brain Damage and Cla yton traveled to Jamaica in early 2020 to meet Big Youth and track vocals for the record\, and while there\, both producers contracted COVID-19. Cla yton\, who was born in Jamaica and had spent years working in the music in dustry\, died from the disease before the album was completed. Beyond the Blue was released in May of 2021\, serving as Big Youth's first album of n ew 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