'Champion Sound' - Documentary on the history of Reggae sound systems in Coventry, UK (2010)

[@Ol-Sound-bwoy]

Sound system saved me, if it wasn't for it I don't think I would have made it because of mental illness, anywhere a sound is playing I have to be there.

[@bsadewitz]

I can relate, although I've never experienced a sound system proper. It is difficult for me to describe how deeply I love this music and so much of the culture and traditions surrounding it. Over the past 20-some years, I must have listened to many thousands of hours of it--basically anything I can find. I always tell people that I didn't decide to get into reggae music; it chose me. I don't think there is anything else which has brought me more sheer joy.

[@andraepalmer2517]

Phenomenal capture of vital chapter of musical history

[@barryquinnell3108]

There is nothing like the Reggae sound system. The DJ, the MC, the selector. I wish I had gone to more.

[@fuoks4880]

WOW😊 I simply LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS DOCUMENTARY...What a feeling❤️RESPECT TO YOU GUYS THAT LIFT THE GENRE TO OTHER HIGHTS OF ITS POSSIBILITIES, you guys are GREAT INFLUENCERS. Respect and Manners to the GENERALS👍🏿

[@deborahcox3158]

My life

[@MekirahRoyal]

I remember jumping on back sound system truck and following sounds clashes around London etc..those were the days..we lived for the music from yard and parents brought the music here..RESPECT.

[@Uncle-Basil]

This brought back so many good memories...while at the same time reminding me of our struggles in England...

[@rogerapollon6549]

Amazing documentary! Narrated by Pauline Black of The Selecter!!

[@dslclark7380]

Brilliant documentary on our British West Indian culture! Wonderful

[@mickydub3]

" TOP CLASS " STUFF important to get this class ah history out deh " BIG THANKS "

[@colmcgillveray1010]

Ah, that was lovely! Heartwarming stuff..nice to hear the actual players , not some one talking about them!

[@melodysouljahrootsdubpress5539]

Very lucky owner of an original Mr Eddie the African 600w double decker valve piece and 4 pieces of early transistor amps also made by Mr Eddie. ❤️💛💚💥. This is a fantastic documentary.

[@patjedub]

thank you so much !dub&dancehall from the uk is the best,reggaefan from antwerp

[@noahderrington5156]

Great! Love sound system culture, thanks for sharing

[@Raal367]

I never knew that much about the sound system history in Coventry, so this was a good education! Thanks!

[@saffronsaffron4848]

No problem - glad you liked it

[@derickrose663]

Growing up in England my brother had a little sound system in Birmingham and my father was a DJ and that's what got me interested in sound systems which I still have a love for to this day

[@KolussuslifeKB]

I truly enjoyed this documentary to the fullest. Great knowledge about the genre of music I've grown to love and appreciate so much.👊🏿⭐❤ #blackstarlove

[@xklusivselekta]

I remember El Paso had a store in Montego Bay I would buy records from every Friday after school, good times.🇯🇲

[@jackiedownie968]

I loved the blues in Hillfields in the early 80's Special Memories ❤

[@mickydub3]

" TOP CLASS " documentary 100 %

[@borisblade564]

Tremendous insight into the culture quality documentary

[@bricktop2090]

I miss the Vibration from the Heavy Bass lines from the Top Sounds👊🏽 Jah Tubbys” 1981 in Bow town hall east London” as I’m walking up the stairs to go to the Hall” The Bass Was Pushing me back down”😳

[@papanovembermusic]

Amazing! Thanks for the effort, subscribed etc.

[@JamesFaction]

Roots Rock Reggae and Ska, the first sound system music. A music that evolved the way it did because of the big heavy bass sound systems it was played on

[@romaneingram7991]

Music is a powerful force the gift of music is often taken for granted

[@jasonboyle2617]

What a wicked documentary 👌👊🏻

[@Ol-Sound-bwoy]

Bring back a lot of memories 🥂🍾

[@NESTABROWN9]

Great video memory of oddies time reggae history it is. 😎👍👊

[@jerry76411]

big up macka-B .SOUND MY FAMILY SOUND SYSTEM

[@robertfoster3214]

Great information keep up good work those were day

[@terigee5154]

But wait mi never know say pop Pete Waterman was soo deep inna di reggae dem time deh!!!!Learn something new everyday!!!!

[@annonymous3948]

Yeah mon, pete waterman was as broad as broadway in deh reggae bizness in dem early days - pete was deh article David Rodigan, before David Rodigan. Wi would refer to Pete Waterman as the white Pete Metro.

[@HouseJawn]

I would do anything for this to replace UK drill! 😆 💕

[@haloskater24]

I love my people.

[@RIDDIMDON4LIFE]

Love these uploads :-) Subscribed Bless

[@scarpettaT]

I miss blues dance so much, me and my friends had the best time going blues paying 50p _ £1.00 to get in drinking smoking dancing and maybe a rub up lol you would feel the baseline right through your chest if you stood right in front of them huge speakers, then walking home 8:00 in the morning in the 80s - 90s till the councils put a stop to it, they fucking ruined the whole scene !! now there is hardly anywhere to go !!! to listen to reggae. :(

[@rooneye]

Those old white people on the councils just don't get it lol (I'm white, but not THAT white like they are). The council is the number 1 fun stopping organisation KNOWN TO MAN. Name me a group of people who spoil more fun than the council and their health and safety department? YOU CAN'T! They're above the police...everybody. But yeah 80's early 90's Reggae was pretty mainstream. Here where I live UB40 was MASSIVE. (Middlesbrough north east England. We didn't really get an influx of Caribbean's, we got Pakistanis instead, we have a large Pakistani population in the town. Wasn't really many black people in Middlesbrough, certainly not like a community of them, just the odd black family living amongst the white people, like there was no black neighbourhoods/areas like there is Pakistani areas in Middlesbrough. ALTHOUGH there WAS an INFAMOUS Reggae nightclub that everyone in Middlesbrough of a certain age will know called The Bongo, of course it sold Red Stripe lol and played only Reggae music, and that's usually were we would end up of a night out. Reggae is just BY FAR the BEST music to dance to.) I grew up on Reggae as my mam would play it all the time in the house.

[@scarpettaT]

@@rooneye I lived in Hitchin Herts and it was full of blues party's every weekend there was a blues plus you had the Bedford Arms pub that was pure reggae every weekend and it always had a great atmosphere, those were the days I enjoyed the most me an my friends often chat and remember those days an how much we miss it, the Bedford Arms has been turned into little flatlets, so disappointing :( there is nothing reggae there now :(

[@mainecoinandgold469]

Somebody took me to 1 in London just like you say cheap, packed, smoking drinking, dancing all night tu be home at 8am! Am so glad to have experienced it ! One white dude/me and the white english native who brought me wanna do it every night!

[@zigzung5569]

@@rooneye Being an insular Londoner i had no idea Middlesborough had any sort of reggae scene. I heard Steph McGovern on her C4 show mention the Bongo club to Chris Kamara in a if you know you know type of way! London in the 80's/90's was the best time for reggae clubs and all night blues parties. Also UB40 Present Arms album absolute classic.

[@beverleylumb8048]

The councils ruined it as you put it because they were getting complaints from other people who lived close by and people going to these blues didn't give a fxxk about how much noise they made and how much inconvenience they caused to those people. If that hadn't of been the case and you had been a bit more considerate those blues might still be going

[@jerry76411]

saw my uncle ronnny from el paso sound 5:31. from coventry big up

[@txm1008]

I no uncle ronny!! Respect!!

[@Ol-Sound-bwoy]

We had a Grudig Gram one of di best🇯🇲🥂🎵🎶

[@quantro65]

You mean Grundig? Nah Blaupunkt was running things in the 60s

[@thomaspenman4101]

I loved this video i love reggae deep roots dub.i play reggae on my yu tube channel also motown and other tunes i also sing songs by the king elvis presley.jah rastafari.👌❤❤❤

[@papaclarks7304]

Yes Saffron. Miss hearing your valued opinions pon dancehall forum. Big up every time.

[@saffronsaffron4848]

Big Up Papa Clarks - respect due !! everything seems to have scattered after DHR closed down - but I'm releasing everything on Facebook groups - such as : UK Sound systems, The British Sound system Collective etc

[@papaclarks7304]

Nice to hear from you bredda. Thank you fi all di history videos...will check facebook groups.

[@ryanlaingmvp3191]

Sound system to the world 🌍

[@paulbyford4149]

Excellent documentary.

[@dia.6213]

The Railway looks a great place for a dance.

[@yotrakzproductions7324]

"If music be the food of love"

[@djgenius626]

Great part of history,,,when 45 use to be the forefront ,and exclusive

[@theefishlippedone]

Wicked. Bless up

[@rooneye]

My Irish family over in Ireland also had that front room "museum" basically lol Immaculate and all fancy and shit and used like a few times a year or when the priest came round. Got to PRESENT for the father 🤣Many doilies. On EVERYTHING. Fancy china cups and teapots in there and shit for his cuppa tea. Priests can't be drinking out of no ordinary cups! Place was hoovered regularly. Just incase father came round unannounced. Priests are like rockstars in rural Ireland man! They gets the TREATMENT everywhere they go.

[@i24msd]

Does anyone know what the portable boom box is on the table behind count spinner, wearing the grey stripe suit ?

[@dwightgayle9589]

Plz send this video to tariq nasheed n lord Jamar n anyone who dispute The fact hip-hop started inna jamrock!!!

[@ES2990]

Apparently the documentary failed to mention that sound system culture stemmed from Jamaicans observing Black American block parties in New York....

[@dareal05]

Exactly, and the Jamaicans back and forth to NYC brough the soundclash element to what eventually became hip hop -- cultural diffusion 101.

[@tristansprague7109]

The roots of dubstep right here. ❤️

[@Original274]

Great insight into Coventry's sound system culture. I knew Pete Waterman released Susan Cadogan's 'Hurt So Good' on the U.K. Magnet imprint, did not know he was partly responsible for its production with Scratch Perry. Interesting!

[@the-dubfather]

He wasn't

[@Original274]

@@the-dubfather I know P.W. had no input as regards recording & production. Only through licensing & releasing it through Magnet records...

[@gostrum1]

Cleopatras in Huddersfield ‘82

[@admiralbenbow5083]

9.11 Im not sure about the `lack of black music`. Motown was huge in the UK in the 60s and early 70s and it was mainstream with plenty of air and TV exposure, but of course Detroit wasnt in the Caribbean, not was it in Coventry. The flowering of `British` roots reggae was bound to happen, and it did, even though we did, in our never ending search to squeeze the last `New P` out of every gram of vinyl, try to kill it off with Dancehall, roots survived AND thrived and is still alive and kicking today, whereas dancehall disappeared down the plughole long long ago.

[@celinejason7886]

We need a revival of the old ways

[@stephenbrooks904]

bless

[@kdeeuk]

i knew what they where mr waterman you wasent the first to play em lol

[@Mama-io3bf]

The two coleman brothers sound ❤🇬🇧🇯🇲

[@jakewallly8215]

Awesome doc! What is the tune in closing credits? Thanks

[@ReggaeManStan]

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[@beverleylumb8048]

You better go by Ken Parker I think

[@BoSSLeVeLs]

26:30 his face says it all ✌🏼

[@MichaelaMommy]

CUTE!

[@carljeremy6938]

What happened to the sound system today?

[@timedefinite384]

Two crews on opposing systems shouting insults and death treats at each other.. that's what's happening nowadays.. SMH Oh...with a little bit of music thrown in.. sometimes..!

[@maverickforlife]

@@timedefinite384 So true. But we can change it again and bring back the love. At least that's my aim in my little corner. 🙏❤

[@kevinelliott8972]

🇯🇲😎

[@highestregionmediagrouplon2380]

FAB Istory

[@finnie]

Is there a tracklist for this?

[@saffronsaffron4848]

check the end credits

[@dannyrobson3407]

Tune at the end? Sounds like pat Kelly!

[@isrealistheauthor1489]

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST: THE PRISONERS BIBLE. Get The Book! Or FACE THE MUSIC!!

[@boeingbwoy]

Principal 😭😭😭

[@tpain8828]

RIEP Mr Herron….

[@tb22k]

😅reggae is best

[@chocolatewheelchair]

lol he compared it to the Beatles

[@robertlund5694]

i hate the term 'black music' i feel less love for anyone who i hear voice this term!

[@akindele13]

Well it ain't White music

[@steppamovements449]

What else could you call it it's our black musical heritage I was there in that era from early 80s till presant day .

[@southlondonmassive3020]

I think thats what they call "white fragility". It is black music and nothing else. Im white by the way.... Credit where its due.

[@robertlund5694]

@@steppamovements449 its music, branding it by colour is wrong as branding anything by colour is wrong.

[@robertlund5694]

@@akindele13 there is no term 'white music' as far as I know, that's what I mean.