WE NEED YOU...if you play the keyboards and would like to be in a reggae band...
Heartland Reggae has a space for a new keyboard player.
As you can hear, we're not traditional reggae by any stretch of the imagination, so...assuming that some element of bubble and skank will have to take place, you can bring almost anything else you like to the table!
Have a listen, and call Charlie on 01823 666358 if you're interested. Don't be shy.
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They once shared stages with such luminary stars as Bim Sherman, Aqua Levi, Misty In Roots, The Mad Professor, Burning Spear and the late, great, Desmond Dekker.
They appeared on numerous prestige radio and television programmes.
The press described them in glowing terms “the music is stacked with gutsy, earthy strength, emanating from the girder-strong drum and bass line and hammered home by relentless reggae riffs and kaleidoscopic lead solosâ€
The reviewers cooed “Brazenly mixing jazz, funk and metal over the most wicked, dancey, dub stylee.
They construct songs of individual and collective brilliance, Heartland Reggae are British reggae personifiedâ€.
Everywhere they went, the length and breadth of the UK “wasteland dancefloors were transformed, the fans sweated, sweltered and swanked that they had seen them, Heartland Reggae became cultâ€
“Leaving most ‘white reggae’ doubters aghast with their potent punch, ragga rhythms and soothing sensa sounds†Heartland Reggae toured solidly for five years until staffing problems caused “the South West’s first real reggae masters†to split. They played their last gig on New Year’s Eve 1992".
That was then but now, some fifteen years later, Heartland Reggae are back with a vengeance.
Responding to mounting pressure from friends, fans and those in the know, Charlie (King Stubby) Stubbings, singer/songwriter and former Heartland Reggae frontman decided that the time was right for a reggae resurgence.
The ever present and ever reliable Dave ‘Wookloaders’ Vaughan readily assumed his former position as custodian of the somewhat war-torn Heartland Reggae drum stool, Andy ‘Anders’ Lawrence bled Ebay dry of state of the art keyboards, Rael Matthews eagerly and adeptly swallowed up the vacant ‘guitar hero’ position and when Robert (Fozzie) Foster, luthier and bass player extraordinaire fashioned himself the perfect instrument from a random log, Heartland Reggae’s rebirth was complete.
And now for the really good news, this is no pale imitation, this is one righteous, reggae-matical, reincarnation.
Heartland Reggae are every bit as vibrant and vital today, as they were....back in the day!
Gone are Charlie’s red, gold and green leggings (thank God!) but fully present and correct is the awesome power,
the pomp, the professional polish, the passion and the pizzazz.
Pumping, pulsating, fire spitting grooves hot from the reggae foundry, swathes of sumptuous synth and bubbling Hammond, dubwise echoes, twin guitars dancing and skanking, boiling and blistering solos and of course those beautifully crafted, memorable songs which rapidly take up residence in even the most obstinate of brains.
If you missed them the first time around, now you can see for yourself what all the fuss was about.
If you’re ‘a fan’ this regrouping will be sweeter than the homecoming of a long lost friend.
Bigger, bolder, brasher and more bellicose than ever, Heartland Reggae are back with a vengeance.
You will be dancing, foot-tapping is simply not an option.
Reggae To The Rescue? - damn straight!
