THE BIG Chillum kicks off at 1pm at Dolan’s on Sunday June 14 and will be running all day over three areas in the Alponsus Street venue with a BBQ to keep the energy levels up. Limericks biggest ever reggae event sees Horace Andy and Ashley Beedle headline with support from Galway’s Intinn and Dom from Blood and Fire. A host of local selectors and DJs representing crews from Limerick, Cork and Dublin, will be cranking out the sound all day setting the tone for this momentous occasion.
The Roots Factory, dB crew, The 50-50’s,Fire House Skankers and the Nu Killa Kru will deliver the goods for a solid thirteen hours. For a finish, Drum n Bass legend Calibre takes to the stage after Horace Andy supported by the Nu Killa Kru Captain, Code. The Big Chillum is all about good times, good music and good people, so come along, chill, groove, and get down. Horace and Ashley’s Irish tour is on the back of a full album collaboration, Inspiration Information. Inspiration Information is the second album in a series of collaborative albums being released by Strut Records.
Horace Andy born Horace Hinds is a roots reggae songwriter and singer, known for his distinctive vocals and hit songs such as Government Land, You Are My Angel, Skylarking and a cover version of Ain’t No Sunshine.
1990 saw Andy Horace’s profile raise the bar when he began collaborating with Bristol trip hop pioneers Massive Attack, going on to contribute to four of their albums, most notably with Angel. In the mid-1990s he also worked with Mad Professor, releasing the albums Life Is For Living and Roots and Branches. He continues to record new music, with the Living in the Flood album released in 1999 on Massive Attack’s Melankolic record label, and Mek It Bun in 2002. He also featured on the world music project, 1 Giant Leap, and on the Easy Star All-Stars 2006 album, Radiodread. The big wheel keeps on turning.
Ashley Beedle has been involved in many projects, he brought house music to Notting Hill Carnival with Shock Soundsystem. His production on X-Press 2’s massive hit, Lazy, was an inspired collaboration with former Talking Head David Byrne, seeing X-Press 2’s albums travel the globe.
His remixes have ranged from pop and rock bands, little house labels; hip hop mixes, house mixes; as a solo remixer, and as part of X-Press 2.
Other projects worthy of mention include: Delta House Of Funk, Disco Evangelists with protégé David Holmes (Ocean’s 11, 12 and 13 Hollywood score master), Roots Revolution on Roger Sanchez’ label, the demon dub-house of Jamayka Boys (championed by many as the first Dub Step production), Black Jazz Chronicles, Afro Art, and the Ballistic Brothers.
Ashley’s ability to always stay ahead of the pack continues with his futuristic reggae inspired Warbox project (which has included chart smashing remixes for Lilly Allen), a rock techno inspired project with the Filthy Dukes’ Mark Ralph, called Ralph und Beedle, a blue eyed soul project called Mavis (which has already been joined by Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner amongst others) and of course, more disco output from his moniker as London Heavy Disco Review and his label, Out Hear myspace.com/ashleybeedle
