Profile Graphics - hitupmyspot.comhi this is sir skull and i would like to tell you how it all started,first i must say big respect to errol from jointwood the origenal "sir skull"written on the back of his shirt for everyone to see and they did,people started calling him sir skull all over st elizabeth (ja)when i saw that i say to myself i want people to know me the way they know him so when i came to london from jamaica in 1975 i draw a skull and cross bow on the back of my hand every day for a year and show all my collage mate and told them to call me sir skull and they did , house partys was the big in ting in london in the 70s and coming from jamaica where i was souranding by sound system like ,kk and jah iron, it was some thing i wanted to do as a 11 year old boy even doe i was playing music since i was about 4 or 5, seeing the sound system in london made my mind up what i wanted to do "build a sound system" , i went to leicester in august 1976 and about 3 r 4 days later i ask my nice stepmum do they have partys up here often, and she reply not much , i told her am going to chang that , the first person i met as a friend was wayne johnson after we talk for about 3 mins about where am coming from he wanted to beat me up i found this out about 3 years later, a glad he didn`t ,"me who just come up from ja" ,my first play out was in a church hall in mere road then another youth club in mare road , i had a 1 bed room flat (£5 a week)on welford road and thats where i started building my sound first a 50 watts valve amp than 100 watts, i invite people who i met to my flat and more n more people herd about me and wanted to see who is this sir skull, the third play out was at a party at farmers house on east park road that party was so jam it was on real, after that more and more people started coming up to my flat , them one saturday night the mattuews family was having a party and they did not have a proper music set playing on ,most of the guys there know me so they ask the family would they like me to play , so about 10 of them came to my flat that was on the same street and ask me to play, so i played and it was one of the best party in leicester , after that night everybody want me to play at there party, benny was in my sound at the time,big up to clive,bernard,rex,glentis,joel,mark,ricky,michal powell,leroy,pagie,who came up my one bed sit, my first big dance was a antegua independance dance at county room (leicester)that dance was ram (500+)then someone put on a dance in a place call luca that plus other places at the time i was living on beckingham road for a year then i move in a 1 bed sit on top of herdle white shop (thats when i played at the mattwuews party )youthie (aka black magic) tappie (akaattraction b)and makka wanted to build a sound and herdle white say to them why don`t you join up with sir skull as one and we did , so all four of us started to move together ,if there was a party going on and we are there they would ask us to nice it up for them,the manager of the interpeters ask us to play at luca because this band would be on stage,we was glad to do so,after that,my sound and askull would have clashes in luca , most of the time we win the clash but they had some bass i don`t know where them get it from ,then, luca,jamaica service groupe,sugar,viking,herdle white,antegua ,st kitts& nevis and grenada association would ask me to play at at there dances,............then i started promote my own dances that went on to having my own community radio station call GCR FM (genetic community radio)that led on to me doing a 28 days legal station (RSL) call HOT FM
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