JSTAR

04/10/2024

And it’s a wrap! Honoured to perform between and ! Last show of the summer 2024 Soom T tour, different line up, great team of kids on stage to sing and dance .
Out of sight - the phenomenal .tintin on FOH and ever solid Nina our TM.

Thank you brilliant audience and in Lausanne for the awesome hospitality and professionalism.
Could do it all again, 4 times a week, until the sun goes and the snow falls! 🙏🏽❤️
#1066

29/09/2024

At the young age of 80 years (!) Max Romeo’s voice is as uplifting as ever, supported by a fantastic team of tight French players & singers.
Managed to get my 7” of ‘if them ever’ signed 🙏🏽
In the spotless show, ‘War in a Babylon’ seemed very poignant but also positive.
Other killer songs were ‘Wha you ago tell Jah Say’ , ‘three blind mice’ , ‘valley of Jehosephat’ and of course ‘Chase the Devil’ as bought to a generation of ravers by bought the house down.

Reminding us of the roots of reggae, Max hit us up with Byron Lee’s The Ska Kings ‘Jamaican Ska’
- now there’s a story: The Skatalites were supporting the show last night (Vin Gordon being a surviving member).
In 1964 Edward Seaga had sent The Ska Kings to rep Jamaica at the NYC Worlds Fair, post independence, despite The Skatalites being more in favour at the time at home. However it’s noted that The Ska Kings, while not with the recorded output, were a popular live band, plus they never got paid for the gig anyway.. I digress…

16/09/2024

Another big day of FUN IN THE SUN at Festival La Flume Enchantée with SOOM T alongside Alex Armel on guitar!
🍄🍄 🤡 Plus we had lots of mushrooms on stage - 🤪🍄🍄... Our penultimate show of the summer ...
huge thanks for support from our road manager Nina, FOH Louis who manages to glue our chaos together!

11/09/2024

ATTENTION!!! BRAZ BRAZ EXCLUSIVE SESSION inna tiny town stylee !!!
Before our SOOM T show near Rennes on Friday, I'll be in Brittany near Finistère...
Of course there will be the JSTAR hip-hop reggae mashups plus a curious mix of anything from dub disco to cosmic french Balearic funk ...

I'm joined by super cool pancake king of the sevens Julien Lefeuvre aka DJ Fuzz who I met years ago in New Zealand during the infamous Raglan Sunday Sessions. At Braz Braz in Saint Jean Trolimon this Friday 13/09 from 19h.

11/08/2024

Friends l, I’m honoured to be joining some amazing elders, artists, performers, partakers, psychonaughts, in this uplifting musical event known as on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) in October 2024
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️❤️

06/08/2024

Say no more

02/08/2024

That last known picture of Jstar before being bitten by a thousand mosquitoes 🤪

01/08/2024

WICKED BEACH VIBES INNA SOUTHERN ITALY - FRIDAY 2 AUG
Between Bari & Brindisi
Free entry ! Kypos beach 🏖️ 🌴☀️🌴

17/07/2024

SUMMER HEATS UP THIS SATURDAY IN LONDON ON A MIGHTY SOUND SYSTEM 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
FREE ENTRY CARNIVAL ATMOSPHERE

13/07/2024

Pure Intimate Beach vibes today coming up in tropical, reggae, jazz , balearic with Dj's Choice The Rebel DJ from 5pm until 10pm. BUENA ONDA FOCENE - Viale di Focene, 183, 00054 Fiumicino RM, Italy

05/07/2024

Where are we today?
Join me tonight at BAR ALIMENTATION GENERAL
Message for

04/07/2024

Friday night in Paris at Alimentation General is gonna be tropical ! See ya there!

29/06/2024

Thank you for a very special LATE evening last night with IN L’Isle sur Tarn !

Big ups Amazing Alex, Green Teddy and Louis on the mix!

20/06/2024

It’s been a long time since I played in Whitstable. We used to have parties on the beach, or down in Seasalter.
Once (in about 1994) I invited and BoomShakalaka sound system to play the Assembly Rooms - the walls dripped with sweat, they almost blew the roof off and you could hear the music 5 miles away.

18/06/2024

I picked up inspiration for this remix on a 7” found in Taranaki, New Zealand, last year. A lot was going on, my parents dying, a daughter being born, and my discipline was to work on this for 15 minutes a day, and then once it took shape I sent to great friend and producer Dubmatix to edit add some parts to. And he flipped it back to me for more work. As usual I wanted to respectfully reflect the drops in the original. It’s not an easy track as there is only a chorus at the beginning and end, so the backing has to keep driving the track. The original was so slamming and head nodding and I think we did good to give it a reggae boogie shakedown. The fact that the instrumental works well on its own for the get down is testimony to the effort we put in. Thanks to and LXC at 45seven for the cut. ❤️🙏🏽☀️

18/06/2024

ITS HERE!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥 PRE ORDER 7" VINYL
- JSTAR & Dubmatix King PRESENTS SCENARIO

2 track album

10/06/2024

while we did have a fantastic time listening to the music of Reunion communities of French, Mayotte, Creole, and also performing ( SOOM T ) in Isle de France aka Bourbon aka Reunion, it was super interesting to research the rich history of the area; Arab slave traders, French, Portugese and British colonialists, trade unionism struggles.
Raising some awareness here - While on this reading 'tour', I ended up learning about the Chagossian Chagos Archipelago Community who were displaced from their beautiful island so that US and UK could make an army base there and pollute their lagoons, covering up the information and labelling them 'Man Fridays' in now-released documentation. The people were moved to Mauritius and UK, and many live in Crawley (quite a different kind of paradise). They are not allowed to return home, they were promised £40 million in support , of which very little money has come the way of this community.

£40 million Support Package When the British Government announced their decision on 16 November 2016 that they would not permit resettlement of the Chagos Archipelago, they also announced that a 'Support Package' would be provided: "The Government will instead seek to support improvements to the

06/06/2024

It’s national shiny head day down here in 😀🙃 . 11 hour flight and now time for a dip in the 🌊