Bambu Hut on Eastside FM

20/08/2025

He's inspired artists for years - the mighty STRANGER COLE! Book your tickets for the Paddo RSL gig on December 19th.

20/08/2025

Absolutely unmissable - the pure legend of Jamaican music, Wilburn Theodore Cole aka STRANGER COLE is making his way back to Sydney this December. One of the prime builders of Jamaican post-war popular music, STRANGER COLE is the real deal, a pioneer of ska, boss of early reggae and master of roots reggae with a mind-blowing back catalogue of great songs. Mark off December 19th on your calendar - STRANGER COLE at the Paddo RSL.

18/08/2025

Two youth reasoning at Rototom '25. More life! More music! 🔥🎶🔥

13/08/2025

The master, the real pioneer, Ernest Ranglin at 93:

The guitarist guided the music of Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, T***s, Prince Buster among others – but thinks the magic might never have have happened if he’d had access to better gear

20/07/2025

Sad news from Jamaica …
The icon singer Owen Gray has just passed away … 😔
He was one of the first international stars from Jamaica and also the modern dubplate concept originator. ⭐️
Gone but not forgotten. ✨
Condolences to his family and loved ones
RIP 🙏🏽

19/07/2025

18/07/2025

17 and 18 years old Althea & Donna. Uptown Top Ranking became a No.1 hit in the UK on February 1978


❤️💚💛

04/03/2025

Big show at The Factory with Queen Omega. Get there!!

JUST ANNOUNCED - QUEEN OMEGA & THE ROYAL SOULS 🔥
Known for her soulful voice and empowering lyrics, Queen Omega continues to leave her mark on the global reggae stage. Fans can expect a dynamic live show as she is joined by her eight-piece band, The Royal Souls.

📅 Wed 12 March 2025
🎫 On Sale Now @ https://cntury.co/FAC25_QUEENOMEGA

17/11/2024

Spear reach Trinidad and Tobago...travelling and grounding.

22/09/2024

2024 - ILY SENSIMILLA (feat. Pressure Busspipe)

Ah where, I'll phone ya
And out deh international farmer

I've got a stalk of Sinsemilla
Growing in my backyard
I've got a stalk of Sinsemilla
Growing in my backyard

Don't cut down the collie tree
'Cause it makes the best tea for me
I've seen doctor say, it gives naturally
One thing this doctor will need
A lot of food
To survive and go through in Babylon

Yes, I've walked the streets and seen children downtown
Begging everyone they see, and it hurt me
It can't be right for what this world do for the youth
And the little herb I'm selling, they want to capture me

I and I don't cherish wickedness
Because it's none profit to I and I

I've got the stalk of Sinsemilla
Growing in my backyard, oh
I've the stalk of Sinsemilla
Growing in my

Anything that is none profit
I and I don't take for it
Pass it, pass it
All over I and I

There is a red house over yonder
Full of ma*****na
I've been sitting on the corner
Chatting up with the farmer

I’ve got a stalk of Sinsemilla
Growing in my backyard
I've got a stalk of Sinsemilla
Growing in my backyard

Free the herb, free the herb

07/09/2024

I'm extremely sad to hear that Garth White, one of the very best chroniclers of Jamaican popular music - someone who lived it from the inside - has passed aged 77. His work precedes and informs most of the writing about reggae today and should be much better known internationally. He was precise and evocative in his accounts of the musical culture of his homeland. I also found him to be humble and funny and he was generous with his time when I met him some years ago in Jamaica. Many scholars, musicians, and fans of Jamaican music will mourn his passing. RIP Garth.

Kingston, 6 September 2024 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has said that she’s deeply saddened by the passing of the musicologist and author, Garth White. Minister Grange said Mr White was “like an encyclopaedia that I could always cons...

03/09/2024

Classic early 80s Jamaican flyer for a Jimmy Cliff shop in Montego Bay. Ice cream, hamburgers, and reggae? Yes please! Crucialriddim archive.