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13912885_1155053967870150_8828789645945434509_nDub Pistols DJ Barry Ashworth has just recorded another Bass heavy selection for you all to
download for free, grab it now
https://soundcloud.com/dubpistol/bass-mix

London Calling SOHO Radio

CsOBxsfXEAAZfjRDub Pistols Barry Ashworth is back on the airwaves tonight with his “London Calling” show on Soho Radio from 6pm till 8pm GMT.
joing Barry on the show is the legendary “Bushwacka” dropping a killer selection of old school electro breaks that you really need to hear. Also on the show are Belgium’s finest and Nice Up records artists “Turntable Dubbers dropping some killer party Jungle and dub. Turn on tune in and party

Win 2 tickets to Always the sun Festival

ATS_DUBPISTOLSDub Pistols are playing this years Always The Sun Festival live and to celebrate the festival have given us to free tickets to give away. Just sign up to our mailing list and the winners will be picked at random and announced next Friday. Already signed up no problem your name will be automatically entered.

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DATES AND LOCATION

Always the Sun takes place on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 September 2016 on the beautiful Stoke Park, in the middle of Guildford. We are a five-minute walk from the Guildford London Road station and a 20-minute walk from the main Guildford station.

The festival opens at 10.30am and closes at 11pm each day.

Stoke Park
Nightingale Road
Guildford
Surrey
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TICKETS

You can buy tickets from our website, through our ticket partners, Music Glue, as well as other ticketing sites such as See Tickets and We Got Tickets.

We really want our festival to be affordable to families, so our tickets are (per day) £20 for an adult, £10 for a child (11-15yrs) and under 11’s go free

Tickets

http://www.seetickets.com/event/always-the-sun-festival/stoke-park/983694

http://www.wegottickets.com/f/10224
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Win 2 tickets to Wilkestock Festival

unspecifiedDub Pistols sound system feat DJ Barry Ashworth and Rodney P are playing this years Wilkestock Festival and to celebrate Wilkestock have given us to free tickets to give away. Just sign up to our mailing list and the winners will be picked at random and announced next Friday. Already signed up no problem your name will be automatically entered.

Record numbers flocked to last years festival… yes we will be back! 4/5/6th of September all for Charity and all for good times….!
Company Overview
Just 30mins train ride from London!

In its 10th successful year….. 100+bands/dj’s across 4+ stages, an epic weekend to be had with all profits going directly to Keswick Mountain Rescue & Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research.
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4+ STAGES ACROSS POSSIBLY THE MOST INTIMATE FESTIVAL SITE EVER!

PACKING A HUGE ARRAY OF MUSIC FROM LOCAL, FAR AND WIDE

3 BARS

FREE SHOWERS!

LOCKERS & PHONE CHARGING

LIVE GRAFFITI

PAINTBALL ARENA

SUMO SUITS

LOADS OF ENTERTAINMENT ACROSS THE WEEKEND

FAMILY CAMPING

NON COMMERCIAL & ALL PROCEEDS DIRECT TO CHARITY

AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE, INTIMATE MUSIC FESTIVAL, NO £4.50 DRINKS HERE!

THIS IS DEFINATELY ONE NOT TO MISS!!

info@wilkestock.com / play@wilkestock.com
Tickets on sale @ www.wilkestock.com

London Calling Show

13403864_10154154902733326_558024958332391718_oDub Pistols “Barry Ashworth” returns to Soho Radio this evening to host his monthly show from 6pm till 8pm BST
Joining Barry in the studio live tonight is Aston Harvey from the legendary breaks crew “The Freestylers” as well as guest DJ mixes from from up and coming reggae DJ “Ted @ The Controls” who will be dropping a fine selection of reggae music and Greece’s finest jungle export the one and only “Fleck” who’s is signed to the seminal Serial Killers record label.
Turn on, tune in and drop out!

London Craft Beer Festival

13055656_851800488280368_4880478558365574640_oThis weekend the Dub Pistols will play a special one off show at The London Craft Beer Festival
The festival takes place across 3 days in August

London Craft Beer Festival

1 venue / 3 days / 30+ Breweries / 250+ Beers
Great Food / Quality Music / A true beer celebration
Oval Space, London – 12th – 14th August 2016

Tickets are close to selling out so grab yours whilst you still can\
https://craftbeerfestivals.co.uk/event/london/

A ticket gives you entry, a festival tasting glass, unlimited beer to try, lots of brewers, and the most exciting beer festival in London.

Ticket will get you:
ENTRY TO THE EVEN – All the breweries, the food market and the terraces for the session
LOTS OF GREAT BEER – You’ll get to try unlimited small pours (90ml tasters) of whatever you like form whichever brewer you choose for length of the session you buy a ticket for
LOVE / KNOWLEDGE / EXPERIENCE – Access to the brewers, brewery teams, beers from around the world, different types of beer
FREE GLASS – A London Craft Beer Festival branded glass
AWESOME FESTIVAL PROGRAMME – With tasting notes and information on each brewery
HOURS OF FUN – 5 hours of enjoying great beer, great music and our lovely terraces
*Food is not included in ticket price, be sure to bring a bit of cash for our amazing food market (cards also accepted)

Dub Pistols show is on Saturday 13th August onstage @ 9pm

Win 2 tickets to Bestival

Act Day6Dub Pistols will be making their annual appearance at this years legendary Bestival on the brand new venue that is the spaceport on Saturday Afternoon

the legendary Port remains missing, its whereabouts unknown but Bestival’s brand new, revolutionary monolith of sound, The Spaceport, is shaping up to be the greatest dance stage ever! Throbbing to an intergalactic soundscape of epic proportions, our seven storey symbol of the future will transmit Bestival’s unique vision of our dancefloor destiny as we unveil the crack squad of space cadets, who will be joining previously announced Spaceport headliners Diplo, Carl Cox, and Fatboy Slim & Dub Pistols sound system to blast us into the unknown this coming September on the Isle of Wight.

SCALE_MOCKUPTo celebrate the Dub Pistols are giving you the chance to win 2 free tickets to this years biggest party
All you have to do is sign up to our mailing list on the home page and your name will be entered into a hat.
The winners will be announced on Friday 19th August

Dub Pistols exclusive interview

13614944_10154318532131660_2082529782537332657_nIGsoup talks to Dub Pistols’ Barry Ashworth about being in the music business for 20 years and working with his heroes.

Is this your first time at Kendal Calling?

No, not at all. We’ve played here on at least four occasions plus a couple of DJ appearances. Definitely not.

Is it your first time playing the main stage?

No, it’s about the third time we’ve played the main stage. It’s the first time we played to wake people up!

So you’re very used to Kendal Calling and the way everything works, what do you like about Kendal Calling that keeps you coming back?

This part of the country at this time of the year, it’s something special. I don’t think there’s a more beautiful place, possibly in Europe, when the sun is shining, which is when Cumbria is at its finest. I think the location is stunning. And like I said, we’re very lucky that the weather is like it is, I’m sitting here in a t-shirt with you and its beautiful. It’s pretty special right now.

What do you have planned after Kendal Calling?

When we’ve finished Kendal, we’re leaving here to go straight to Greece. We’re doing about 3 festivals a week at the moment. We have a UK tour lined up, which will take us up to Christmas. Then we are in Australia and Europe, then New Zealand. We have a new album coming out in February. It will be our 20th anniversary next year so it’s going to be a pretty big year.

Tell us about your new album?

We’ve been writing it for ages. We’ve got everyone from Cutty Ranks, Beenie Man, Ragga Twins, Navigator, Too Many T’s, Genesis Elijah, and Seanie Tee. It’s our most loaded album in terms of guests. We’re on our 7th album and I think when you do an album you’ve gotta try and make every album better than the last, otherwise it’s pointless and you may as well give up. There is always that pressure that comes with it, but it’s our 20th anniversary next year and we’re going to celebrate. It’s a party album.

We did Worshipping the Dollar and that was when everything was tits up in terms of everybody rioting, it was 25 years since punk, I felt like we were almost going back to 1977. Return of the Pistoleros was a good album and now we’re just in a mind set to chill, write some music and have some fun with it.

How would you say your music has changed since the first album?

When the Dub Pistols had just started, it was just me. The Chemical Brothers had just come about, they’d just started doing their first track, ‘My Mercury Mouth’. I was a club promoter and I was bored of the house scene, I was bored of the scene as it had started to become very cheesy. And all of a sudden this break beat, The Chemical Brothers and Propellerheads had come about. It was just a new sound that made me think, that’s what I wanna do. Dub Pistols’ first album was never supposed to be an album for a start, and we were certainly never supposed to be a band. It was just about me, making records for the dancefloor. It wasn’t until I went to America, and signed to Geffen Records. They wanted to put a band together. I gradually started building a band but it was more like a jam session, with me DJ’ing and other people jamming along. Then it started to get messy, gradually we brought in more people and started to write songs as opposed to dancefloor 12 inches that went on forever. So gradually it’s moulded around into what our music is now. Now, we’re about writing songs. There was a point during making Rum and Coke when I realised, it wasn’t just about us writing songs for the album. It was about being a live band, so we started to focus much more on the fact we were writing songs to play, live. Not just writing songs to listen to, I think a lot of our earlier albums were down tempo, then I got to a point where I wanted to do energetic stuff and tear it up.

You’ve talked about how you gradually brought people together, how did you come together as a band finally?

Well when we were in America I was getting people to join and for many years we were complete f**kheads, we were more into partying. We would run around the pitch with the cup before we’d kick the ball, excuse me for using football terms there. But it was always about the party, then we got to a point where things weren’t right. We’d be sh**faced and people would come to see us. The oddest thing about was really that people were more disappointed when we weren’t sh**faced. My philosophy always was, I wanted to be like the Happy Mondays. The energy when I went to see them live, when I was young, it gave me a buzz and lifted everyone. We realised when things started f**king up, how many people have paid to see you. I thought to myself, this is a shambles Barry. People left, some to rehab, and new different members came in and gradually we got to where we are today. We’re constantly evolving, I don’t know where I find them!

You mentioned that you wanted to be like the Happy Mondays, are there any other artists that have inspired you?

Dub Pistols came from my love of reggae and punk, which was the fusion. To me punk is an ethic not a sound. If you try and be a punk band then you’ve missed the whole point, it’s all about fusing stuff, trying different things. Of course, The Specials had a massive influence on me, so did The Clash. But so did The Beastie Boys and The Chemical Brothers. You’re always listening to different things. Every poet is a thief. You take inspiration, whether you knowingly do it or subconsciously do it, you’re always borrowing or listening to someone else’s sound and it will add to your sound. You just do it in your own way.

You’ve talked about taking inspirations but making them your own, what does your music mean to you?

Music is the most primitive communication, which anybody can do, whether you’re depressed, upset or euphoric, it will lift you and send you on a journey. Music is the most basic, tribal beginning of every kind of communication to me. Tribes play music to listen, mourn, party and celebrate something. It’s all about being lifted and being inspired.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve felt lifted and inspired by a gig or festival you have played?

God, we do about three a week so it’s really hard to choose one. In the last year, I would say New Zealand. We went over to New Zealand and did the Splore Festival, which is on the beach. It was the first time we got to play live there, and it was a really special moment. We’re going back again this year, and I don’t think that many bands get that chance to go back again to the same festival in somewhere like New Zealand. We properly just ripped the place a new ****hole, and we were on stage with the sea in front of us. It took me somewhere else.”

Is there anywhere you haven’t played yet that you would absolutely love to?

We haven’t done South Africa, that would be great. I feel like we’ve done everywhere else! But you know, I don’t wanna stop! I need to go back and do it all again, I can’t remember half of it.

Is there any artists you’d love to work with in the future?

There’s an endless list. Ian Brown and Roots Manuva are the two I keep trying to get. Ian Brown we almost worked with. We did a remix and he was supposed to come round my house in the morning to record and his record or something went off and he couldn’t turn up. Back in the early days, we would work with people and they would die six months later… So that was an issue…

It’s well known that The Specials, are special to you. And you’ve worked with Terry Hall and Neville Staple, what did you work on together?

Terry, Neville and Lynval. We did Lynval and Terry’s first show that they had done in like 15 to 20 years in Victoria Park. It was a gig to fight racism. That was the catalyst for them getting The Specials back together again. As Terry and Lynval were walking out people were saying “oh The Specials were great“, and they were saying “nah it wasn’t The Specials it was the Dub Pistols”. They gave us a lot of credit for that, we went on to support them on tour. I got to know Neville, we toured together a couple of times, and he worked on our last album. I’ve got a track that I want Terry to work on now. I want to work with Terry again. We’ve done two or three songs together but I’m still not finished.

What did it mean to you to work with your musical heroes?

I don’t think you can have a better feeling. When you’re a kid and you have these idols. I’m still like that now, it doesn’t change. I’m still a massive fan of music and I still get really excited when I hear a good track. I was almost shaking when I had them in the room with me, when I had Terry Hall sitting on my stairs singing because my studio was in the front room. Or Horace Andy in your front room falling asleep because he’s got narcolepsy. And I had Gregory Isaacs too. There’s no words, like I said I’m this massive music fan with idols, it blows me away, I don’t feel worthy!

If there was one message you could give to your listeners what would it be?

Thank you.

We’re very lucky to be celebrating our 20th anniversary next year. It’s not support from radio, it’s not support from anything else that’s kept us going. It’s the support from everyone else. You guys made it for the Dub Pistols. So, thank you.

This Dub Pistols interview was written by Lauren Scott, a GIGsoup contributor. Edited by Zoe Anderson.

Free Download

We are delighted to be able to give you yet another free download, this time its a track taken from our last album “Turn Up” featuring Mc Serocee and remixed by Jason Laid-back, hope you enjoy it

https://soundcloud.com/dubpistol/turn-up-dub-pistols-jason-laidback-remix