I don’t think there’s any lineup that you’re not on this festival season.
Well, yeah, there will be a few, man. The corporate, the super corporate. I won’t be on wireless, you won’t see me on wireless. You won’t see me on certain ones, you won’t see me because that’s strictly radio play up to time. Now, who’s on the radio last week, they want to see it. So, I won’t be on on them, but the older, the urban, the underground, which is more, there are more like, I can’t call it, independent festivals than there are corporate festivals. And I’m on a lot of independent festivals. But the corporate ones I’m doing a few as well. I did one the other day. So I do pop up. I’m doing Kiss FM. So I do do a few corporates still. But yeah, I’m everywhere. I’m omnipresent.
There’s also loads more to your back catalogue than incredible.
I’ve got best reggae singer, best reggae album and best reggae single, which was Heat. Best album was Wicked at General. And that’s what I got in 1992 at Hippodrome. for the reggae awards. Big, big reggae awards. Yeah. So I’m in 1992. So I’ve been doing the reggae drag now for a while.
Drum and bass jungle came out of the 90s, that was when it really started cranking up. London was just going off obviously with all the parties and all the stuff that was going on everywhere.
Underground, real underground pulse was going on.
Do you think it was there, that you found your space?
Yeah, it was a platform, it was a playground that I felt very comfortable playing in, basically. It was a playground that I thought I could be a bit more freeing. My style fitted it, my hiccup style sounded amazing on Jungle. Yeah, incredible. And was replicated by so many MCs afterwards. Really, because the style was a bit too, maybe because reggae is so like a cliquey, not cliquey, but kind of there’s a conventional way of doing reggae tunes. And maybe there was a way, there was a thing with my hiccup style. It didn’t really, I got hits in reggae, but I didn’t really get the hits because of the hiccup style. The hiccup style was always a style that I used live, so I didn’t find its place in the studio yet, in the reggae studio. But when I went to the jungle studio, it found its place. It fitted in perfect and it became a valuable element and incredible. Absolutely.
We must talk about Mucky Weekender a little bit. I can speak from experience from being there last time, and it went off last year when you performed. What’s the plan for this year?
I don’t know, man. See what happens. I don’t really plan. I don’t plan for anything like that. Turn it up and burn it up. Turn it up and burn it up.
