Dub Pistols
Barry Ashworth and Jason O'Bryan AKA the Dub Pistols have spent the best part of a decade at the forefront of Beats culture. Chewing up hip-hop, dub, techno, ska and punk and spitting them out in a renegade futuristic skank they have consistently defied categorisation and exceeded the highest of expectations.
In recent years the Dub Pistols name has continued to circumnavigate the globe, thanks to a number of high-profile gigs with the full band, and various 'Soundsystem' dates - DJ + scratch DJ + MC - or Barry DJing solo.
If you'd told a 15-year-old Barry Ashworth that he'd end up in the same band as his hero Terry Hall from The Specials, he'd have laughed in your face.
But with the distinctive front man now a regular vocal presence - alongside UK hip-hop hero Rodney P and wicked young US rapper T.K. Lawrence - the Pistols have cemented their line-up and their reputation at the forefront of alternative underground music.
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