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April 26, 2013, at 7:55 pm

On The Radio

Mistah Brown and I from the Tighten Up Crew joined Keith Lawrence for his Thursday night Reggae show on www.mi-soul.com radio this week to play some tunes. The show is up on Mixcloud so check it out, we’re on from around 1:09:00.

April 24, 2012, at 6:39 pm

Can’t Miss – London International Ska Festival DJ All-Nighter

In just over a weeks time on Friday 4 May it’s the London International Ska Festival Deejay All Nighter. We’re really excited about this event as the Tighten Up Crew get to go head to head with Steve Rice of Downbeat Melody alongside Chris Lane. As we’ll all be playing on Steve’s superb Downbeat Melody [...]

February 22, 2012, at 10:55 pm

Trash And Ready

It’s only a couple of weeks to go till Trash And Ready – the Tighten Up Crew join up with the legendary Jah Screechy, head honcho of Necessary Mayhem – Curtis Lynch and Disorda of Extra Classic and Suspect Packages. Check the video.

January 29, 2012, at 11:38 am

Trash & Ready returns!

We’re back in early March with another Trash & Ready night (in association with Lionvibes) showcasing the best in Old School Dancehall and Digital Reggae. Live on the night is the wicked Jah Screechy alongside selecta’s Curtis Lynch (Necessary Mayhem records), Disorda (Extra Classic/Suspect Packages) and the Tighten Up crew with MC Champian.

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January 10, 2012, at 10:04 pm

It was a Champion Sound

Last Saturday three crews – Tighten Up with MC’s Ras Jahny AKA Johnny Dollar and Daddy Ranks, Shimmy Shimmy with MC Serocee and Extra Classic with MC Seanie T played a night called Champion Sound! at the Silver Bullet, Finsbury Park, North London. Tim Schnetgoeke was there and took some superb pictures. You can see [...]

January 1, 2012, at 10:18 pm

a thing called Champion Sound!

July 12, 2011, at 4:04 pm

Tighten Up – Natty Frontline meets Ras Digby – listen

Update due to the new server space I’ve now updated this with streaming versions of the three music files.

It’s taken a while to sort this one out but here by popular demand is the audio for the May 2011 Tighten Up with Ras Digby and Natty Frontline.

This was a heavy duty pure dubplate [...]

May 30, 2011, at 11:40 pm

Tighten Up – 4 June

A bit of a departure for this months Tighten Up as the session will be in two sections: the main event starts at 11pm and will feature Tiny T (Mighty Cloudburst) and Jim Cox (Reggae Train) plus your hosts the Tighten Up Crew see the poster here.

Earlier in the evening and for the first [...]

May 8, 2011, at 3:06 pm

Tighten Up: Never Grow Old – Listen!

At the end of April we were very proud to welcome Tommy Rocka Shacka to Tighten Up alongside ace soundman and our old friend Gladdy Wax. The theme of the night was less of a straight revive session and more of a focus on the 60′s sounds of ska, rocksteady and early reggae. We’d hoped [...]

April 1, 2011, at 11:54 pm

Necessary Mayhem & Sugar Merchant at Tighten Up

Saturday 2nd April at Tighten Up presents Dancehall Nice Again at the Silver Bullet, Finsbury Park. With sounds like this…