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Describe the atmosphere and live music at a local pub, restaurant, festival, church or temple, club night.... inspire other people to check it out!
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TAXI DRIVERS
Cab drivers are as international a group of music-lovers as you'll find anywhere. Click below to hear the tunes that keep the Bristol drivers going.
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Track
1 Our Society
2 Iceberg
3 Meri Tauba
4 Widaa
5 Galim im Roa
6 Akhian
7 Saving Myself
8 Chura Liya
9 Shater
10 Universal Struggle
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Contributor
PATRICK GAYLE
SOROOSH VAKILPOUR
MANZOOR HUSSAIN
ADEL SHAHIN
MOHAMED BEN HASSEN
SHAHBAZ SHAFI
'ICE' aka DAVID TINLING
SHAHAID HUSSAIN
HOSNI AL ALANEH
JIMMY SWING
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Track: Saving Myself
Artist: Glen Washington
Music: Reggae
Chosen by: 'Ice' aka David Tinling (Bristol)
 ÌýÌýListen to Ice and hear the track Saving Myself by Glen Washington taken from the compilation Reggae Hits Vol 28 (Jetstar JSCD 2078)
I used to drive taxi - now I do mostly co-ordinating around the taxi office, making sure everything is running alright. I came to this country when I was about thirteen and a half. Finished school, joined the Army, came out, started a Taxi business. Done a lot of DJing up and down the country on the Radio Station. I’m just really playing music for my own pleasure in clubs and pubs and things like that.
I play a bit of soul, a lot of roots and culture, a bit of R&B, not really pop. Up to date, I think my pick will be Glenn Washington - he is more of a roots-culture-lovers-rock type of singer. Its about our history - about the Blacks’ trouble, where we are coming from, what we are going to, what is the meaning of life, generally about reality. Conscious lyrics, that teach the kids not to mess with drugs, things like that. They send a message across - they are real icons to the Black nation anyway.
This music is definitely inspiration - the kind of music we like to play on the radio, for our kids growing up right now, instead of this gunshooting, gangster business negative vibes. I know it sells but it is negative. I try and stay away from that and keep it on a culture thing. Reggae is like the herb - it brings out your natural being. It’s a drum beat, it’s a drum beat, its a rhythm, and once you get into the rhythm the rest of it just flows.
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