This Little Piggie Went to Pork-Pit
It’s five in the morning and it’ll be another hour before the first rays of the morning sun penetrate the tropical darkness...
A Little Mannish Water: Caribbean Cuisine
The Caribbean has a reputation — a well-deserved one, come to think of it — as a part of the world where people don’t...
Remembering the One Love Concert for Peace
It seems like just yesterday. But the most famous concert in the history of reggae music — probably in the history of Caribbean music in...
Birdie’s Best: the Mighty Sparrow’s Top 10 Hits
Some columns are easier to write than others, and despite more than three decades of covering Caribbean music, promoting concerts, hosting...
Riddem & Rhyme: Byron Lee
It was a bitterly cold, blustery night in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which happens to be my home town, and also happens to be one of the coldest...
Tommy Cowan: backstage king
The first time I met Tommy Cowan, I ended up in one of the Caribbean’s most notorious prisons. The year was 1976. I was in the middle of...
Wake the world: hip-hop’s Caribbean roots
I happened recently to catch some recorded footage of hip-hop megastar Eminem making an acceptance speech — or, to be more precise,...
