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All people who surf this thread please checkit:
LEGACY IN THE DUST
The Four Aces Story by Winstan Whitter
FUNDRAISING SCREENING, Followed by a discussion with the director
Winstan Whitter and special guests
In the 1960’s Mr. Newton Dunbar came to the UK from Jamaica and founded the first
Reggae-oriented music venue’s called ‘The Four Aces Club’, which for some 33 years was
home to the most influential black music and musicians to date (Desmond Decker, Jimmy
Cliff, Count Shelly, Ann Peebles, Percy Sledge, Ben E King Billy Ocean, Bob Marley, and many
others) Despite its success it came under fire from the local Police and was forced to close its
doors in the late 90’s due to a compulsory re- possession ordered by the local Authorities to
make way for the regeneration in Hackney for the fourth coming Olympics in 2012.
Promo Link:YouTube - Legacy In The Dust 'The Four Aces Story' Promo
DOCUMENTARY - 100min / DONATION £5+ / Limited Edition Screen-prints for Sale
Wednesday 10th November Doors 7.00 Film Starts 8.00
Venue:
OPEN THE GATE
The Black Culture Cafe
33-35 Stoke Newington Rd,
Dalston, London, N16 8BJ
020 7503 6099
contact@openthegate.org.uk
www.openthegate.org.uk
The Promo only cantains exceprts from Newton Dunbar's interview. The film contains interviews with a large number of producers, musicians, selectors and clubgoers from all the eras of the club, like Bunny Lee and Fatman, Lloydie Coxsone, Ari Up, Dennis Bovell, The Prodigy, Tippa Irie, Don Letts, and whole crowd of people who raved there.
Worth mentioning that the club also hosted the Legendary rave night Labyrinth for years and years. Prodigy played their first gig there, and the birth of the breakbest, junglist and DnB and dubstep genres can be directly linked back to this place.
Please tell anyone you think might be interested, this is a piece of social history that needs to be seen by all those who went to the club or wished they were there...
Love and peace one day
Ben aka Skully