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Channel One Sound System (Samantha Milligan / samanthamilligan.co.uk) WRS WIRRAL REHEARSAL STUDIOS REHEARSAL STUDIOS PRIVATE 24/7 STUDIOS FROM LOCKUP +1 FULL DAY PRO REHEARSAL STUDIOS 2 MINS FROM THE TUNNEL PERMANENT SECURE ROOMS Permanent secure rehearsal 2 mins from the tunnel £25/4HRS £46/WK £30/WK FREE CAR PARK 24 HOUR ACCESS EASY LOADING ACCESS 07906376701 WWW.WIRRALREHEARSALSTUDIOS.COM Tonight is one of celebration for overworked students, many of whom are looking for a sendoff befitting their grateful, summery faces. The benevolent presidency of CHANNEL ONE SOUND SYSTEM might offer them a more natural high than the type currently circulating round the porta-loos. A modern relic of roots reggae’s earliest attempts at global peace-keeping, the outfit rests on the turntables of founder Mikey Dread, supported by the Zionist mantras of MC Ras Kayleb. The duo run through decades of material and empowering gobbledegook. “Where is Babylon?” Kayleb shouts, with the bullishness of a preacher. “Babylon’s in your phone! Babylon’s in your pocket!” All right, OK; if this is a ploy to download a Channel One set as an mp3, it doesn’t need to be so obscure. That said, their abiding message is crystal clear – love everyone, love yourself, stop whining about anything that doesn’t involve bobbing your shoulders (although this is already the greatest pastime imaginable, from a quick survey of young gents wobbling to an early comedown). Mr Dread has been doing this for 35 years and it’s only courteous to admire him, playing to the same demographic that launched him to prominence in the first place. He must be entirely deaf by now, and although the set goes on and on, he could go longer. Down and dirty house carries on inside, but, truth be told, by this point I’m seeing friends old and new, each off into the next horizon of their lives and it’s a fitting denouement to our time in Liverpool. The music and the lights coalesce and simmer, spiral around us, and I’m elated. This may be a different sort of party to yesteryear, but it’s most certainly not of the Chelsea Flower Show variety. Josh Potts / @joshpjpotts BENJAMIN BOOKER Carbon O2 Academy The blueish hue of the O2 Academy lights are apt: an all-blue, bully-boy Conservative budget has been announced and BENJAMIN BOOKER is beginning his set by cutting the venue’s between-set playlist short and running Bessie Smith’s sombre blues classic Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) through a disillusioned crowd. All such misery is forgotten, if not temporarily, as Booker opens with Always Waiting, which begins slow, drawn-out and grungy, only to trick us by picking up pace at thirty seconds into an excellent energetic boogie-punk quickie. A much needed pick-meup. Earlier, support act CARBON tried to inject their brand of angst-tinged, drum-heavy rock ‘n’ roll on to an indifferent crowd. Their first few songs merge together, lost amongst the conversational murmurs of a growing audience, while more distinct and developed
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