
Perhaps we've all got somewhat irrational dislikes or bugbears in music... one of mine is Black or worse, Jamaican, accents affected by regular white guys. British band UB40 might've been the start of this in my limited musical world, I know Jagger's foolishness on 'Hot Stuff' did nothing to help. Enough it was to put me right off the headline band at a recent gig to raise money for Strummerville - the Racketeers opened with 'Kingston Soul Beat', complete with exaggerated faux-Jamaican spoken vocals; they were sunk for me. Adding repeated shouts of [...]