With all the sound systems clashes, unlike in Jamaica they did not have the famous Jamaican bottled of Red Stripe Beer in the dance. The cats in UK had to make do with Heineken beer or soda pops. In Jamaica the facility use back in the 40's and 50's for cooling the red stripe beer was usually a wooden box filled with large blocks of ice covered with sawdust. Now in this time Red Stripe Beer can be bought in shops all over the United Kingdom in bottles and cans. Ravers in the UK were stepping to imported tunes or records the immigrants brought over to England from Jamaica. The dance ravers casually walk their way into the dance venues that begun from 8pm on a Saturday night held in Town Halls which would end at 11pm, and afterwards from the Town Halls, calmly set off to a blues dance that was usually kept in the basement of a house. In these basement blues dance would set in motion at the stroke of 12 midnight until broad daylight everybody dancing to the latest Ska tunes from Jamaica such as Solomon A Gundie by Eric Morris, University Goes Ska by Don Drummond and the Skatalites. The sound systems would be knocking out such tunes such as Ska Down Jamaica Way by Ferdie Nelson and Ivan Yapp, Housewife Choice by Derrick Morgan and Patsy, Hungry Man, by The Deacons, Copasetic by the Rulers, Yogi Man, by Trumpeter Johnny "Dizzy" Moore, Five O'clock Whistle by Baba Brooks, Iron Bar by Lord Tanamo and Prince Buster's Time Longer Than Rope. Then about 7am Sunday morning the dance ravers began to trickle out of the dance one by one, with their girlfriends and boyfriends or with a dancing partners they met on the night, lazily trooping back to their respective s. |
