Bounce Magazine October 2018
Featuring Echo & Bunnymen, Jazzie B, and regular features!
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FEATURE FEATURE<br />
OCTOBER OCTOBER <strong>2018</strong> <strong>2018</strong> | ISSUE | ISSUE #72 #72 | JAZZIE B<br />
JAZZIE B<br />
We speak to Jazzie B about Soul II Soul’s 30 year anniversary...<br />
Iconic British band Soul II Soul will embark<br />
on a landmark tour of the UK in <strong>2018</strong> marking<br />
30 years of hugely influential success, paying<br />
tribute to their legendary debut album, ‘Club<br />
Classics Vol 1’.<br />
The double Grammy Award winning and<br />
five-time Brit Award nominated band will play<br />
12 dates in the UK in <strong>October</strong> and November<br />
<strong>2018</strong>, including a date at London’s Palladium,<br />
featuring a stunning production.<br />
member, Jazzie B, about the upcoming<br />
anniversary tour…<br />
R: How did you first get into music?<br />
As a kid really, I used to like listening to the<br />
radio. Growing up, three of my brothers had<br />
sound systems, so I guess that was a major<br />
influence. I was drawn into that, through<br />
things like the speakers and the smell of the<br />
equipment, the hustle and bustle of it all.<br />
With huge hits including ‘Keep On Movin’<br />
(which sold over a million copies in the US<br />
alone) and the UK number one single ‘Back To<br />
Life (However Do You Want Me)’, Soul II Soul<br />
progressed from being one of the leaders of<br />
the 1980’s warehouse<br />
scene to pioneering<br />
British black music<br />
around the world, and<br />
securing commercial<br />
success for themselves<br />
and the huge amount<br />
of artists they have<br />
influenced.<br />
During the course of<br />
their stellar career<br />
the band have sold over 10 million albums<br />
worldwide and main man Jazzie B was<br />
awarded an OBE for services to music in<br />
2008, as well as winning an Ivor Novello<br />
Award for Inspiration, as “the man who gave<br />
British black music a soul of its own”.<br />
Rachel Ducker catches up with founding<br />
R: What kind of music did you used to listen<br />
to growing up?<br />
I used to listen to a lot of folk music, which<br />
my parents listened to, and then a stable<br />
diet of reggae music, sprinkled<br />
in with a little bit of Engelbert<br />
Humperdinck.<br />
My mum was a great fan of Tom<br />
Jones, so I used to listened to him<br />
and obviously I had The Beatles<br />
albums.<br />
I guess for me, The Rolling Stones<br />
were the ones at the time, a bit<br />
of Jimmy Hendrix, and jazz was<br />
played around the place to, and then of<br />
course growing up Bennie and the Jets and<br />
Ziggy Stardust.<br />
R: Quite a range of tastes there?<br />
Yeah, it was an incredible time in the 60s and<br />
70s music wise; I mean TV had just started to<br />
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