David Rodigan MBE is a British radio and sound system legend who has been a byword for passion for Jamaican music for almost 50 years. As a schoolboy he was captivated by the sound of ska in the early 1960s, and that love grew into an encyclopaedic knowledge of Jamaican music that the whole scene envies.
In 1978 he began broadcasting on BBC Radio London, and a year later he moved to Capital Radio, where he hosted the legendary Roots Rockers show for eleven years. He later presented on Kiss 100 and BFBS, and today he is known to listeners of BBC Radio 1Xtra and BBC Radio 2. His work has earned him a Sony Radio Academy Gold Award, and in 2012 an MBE for services to broadcasting.
Rodigan is also a legendary sound clash warrior. In 2014 he teamed up with Chase & Status and Shy FX under the name Rebel Sound and won the Red Bull Culture Clash in front of 25,000 people at Earls Court. He is a regular on the bill at Glastonbury, Parklife, Bestival and Outlook, and he also has a bestselling autobiography to his name, Rodigan: My Life in Reggae.
We’re honoured that, for the 20th anniversary of Uprising, he is coming to Slovakia for the first time. When this man steps up to the decks and pulls out his dubplates, expect a storm of exclusive Jamaican music.
