Crates & crates of records - Vestax & Technics turntables - Ecler mixers - Shure needles - loop stations - and lots of wires
Influences
Including, but not limited to: Tamala Motown - Mr James Brown - Stax - Grand Funk Railroad- The JB's - Booker T & the MG's - Marva Whitney - Jill Scott - Buddy Rich - Johnny Clarke - Bill Withers - Led Zeppelin - Cup of tea records - The Jungle Bothers - Heptones - Pennywise - Shri - Portishead - The Specials - Atlantic Records - Johnny Osborne - Spanky Wilson - Mckay - Easy Star All-stars - Gill Scott Heron - The Funk Brothers (unsung heros of Motown!) - UNKLE - Tommy McCook - The Aggrovators - Edwin Starr - Rico Rodriguez - Gill Scott-Heron - The Skatelites - Soul Vendours - Sly & The Familiy Stone - Curtis Mayfield - Dub Specialist - Al Green - Queen - Cymande - Ravi Shankar - Fat Freddies Drop - Oscar Brown Jr. - Commodores - Otis Reading - Michigan & Smiley - The Herbalizer - Sublime - Burning Spear - Gregory Isaacs - The Revolutionaries - Marvin Gaye - Souls of Mischief - Talking heads - Rage against the machine - Oneness of Juju - Del the funky homosapien - Pete Rodriguez - Bob James - Alton Elis - Talvin Singh - Dr John - Kennith Williams - WAR - Bobby McFerrin - Captian Beefheart & The Magic Band - Booker T & The MG's - Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - The Meters - Terry Callier - Syl Johnson - Issac Hayes - The Invisible Pair of Hands - Quantic Soul Orchestra - Sound Dimension - Bobby Womack - The Kashmere Stage Band - Sly & Robbie - The Breakestra - ELO - The Bamboos - Studio One - Channel One - Trojan Records - Nitin Sawhney - Sir Coxsone Downbeat - DJ Derek - King Stitt - Minnie Ripperton - Horace Andy - The Mighty Diamonds - G Love & the Special Sauce - Marlena Shaw - ..
Bristol sound selector Read Jones is resident DJ at Trinity, The Living Room and The Pipe & Slippers, presenting first-class shows packed with Rare-Groove Soul, Vintage Ska,
Reggae and Funk. -Only floor filling rhythms from the finest musicians on the planet.
Read has worked with performers ranging from Bizali, Kid Carpet and the Glitzy
Bag Hags to The Crazy World of Arthur Brown..
as well as:
Sheelanagig -
Nick Pynn -
Phil King -
Miss Cecily & Los Chicos Traviesos -
Trudi Mosiamo -
Short-e -
The Fabrics -
Manfredi Funk Initiative -
Serious Music -
Baba Yaga's Consort -
The Doubtful Guest -
Malarkey -
Jhassi Elliot -
The Bristol School of Samba -
DJ Dad -
Hattie Hatstar -
Dr Moody & the ill patents -
The Bombardeirs -
Centrefolds -
I am the mighty Jungalator -
Red Setter -
Ten Pound Suit Band -
Vid Warren -
The Relay Rips-
Dolan Jones -
Owen and Capaldi -
The Ambling Band -
Wandan -
& The Motherload, to name one or two of the very best.
---contact djrj@readplaysrecords.com---
We did? thanks !!! I tell you what we really enjoyed that day!! what a lovely atmosphere, shame we had to go to another town to play as we wanted to hang about a bit more. We met some lovely people. I hope to see you again!
Hi just to let you know all our tracks are available for download from - http://www.nimbitmusic.com/tuk.1 Thanks for the great comments which have given me the push I needed to get these tracks available for download. Cheers again Scoot.
Easy bro! Thanks for the add... our Bristol launch is on the 30th if it goes well we'll go monthly and of course will be needing more local DJ's to get involved.... so come on down we've got a good show lined up! Flyers coming soon.... peace, BL
Hi Honey, Wicked to hear that! I am just seeing your message only now! I have a few more on the way out which I will put you down in my first batch of dj's to send them to. One is a house track that is killing it over in London town already. Infact I am doing a PA at Ministry of Sound at the end of September of it! And another is a Raggae tune which is gonna kill it! Thanks for the support love! xxxxxxxxx
Hey readplay, thanks for finding us, hope you have time to check out and enjoy our album. We will be coming back down Bristol way hopefully very soon. Until such times. Peace KPS
Cheers, glad you liked it. Next one in the pipeline is the 29th of December at Mr Wolfs. Bizali are also playing (they were at the benefit ball too). I'll probably have something at the Golden Lion on Gloucester Road before then but it is yet to be organized. I'll let you know.
