Boss Sounds

Archive rummaging and found this great set of images from the early 00s.

The work was commissioned by the BBC and Jumping Hot Club in Newcastle Upon Tyne, to document a series of reggae and ska music concerts taking place in the city.

Performing at these concert were a who’s who of the genre including Jimmy Cliff, Toots & The Maytals, Lee Scratch Perry, Horace Andy, Prince Buster, John Holt, Max Romeo, Ken Boothe, Gregory Isaacs and Ernest Ranglin and Linton Kwesi Johnson.