Zion Train's Molara splits from the band :(

[Dubversion]

Her VOICE his ZionTrain

So now are just be a sound system ?
good sound system

no, because Dub Dadda, Brother Culture et all are all much better frontpeople than Molara, IMO..

 

[DeadManWalking]

Her VOICE his ZionTrain

So now are just be a sound system ?
good sound system

They were Zion Train for 2-3 albums before her. Crispy horns had to be the best thing about ZT though and a large proportion of their stuff after didn't feature her apart from when they played live.

No-ones mentioned the Rhythmites, another festival dub band who were really pretty average.

 

[cyberfairy]

Zion train are wonderous and hold so many lovely summery memories for me I interviewed them when i was but a little fairy for my fanzine and they were aall charming people Good luck to Molara and the rest of them..see yu in a field somewhere in a few months.....

 

[dlx1]

They were Zion Train for 2-3 albums before her.

oo I have to look up name of albums name then !

only hear about ZT from Mannassa show on kiss sometime ago and the they did a flu live set on Kiss too & live at DubDay Brighton essential fest.

she got a cracking voice look forward to hear new stuff

 

[LDR]

Tis awful - Zion Train are yet another band whose appeal I cannot fathom. They are just awful

I've only seen them the once and I thought they were alright. Having said that, they didn't make me go out and hunt down any of their stuff.

Bah, all this kind of stuff sounds the same to me anyway.

 

[atomik]

Thank fuck for that. Her voice was the worst bloody thing about Zion Train. Couldn't hit a note to save her life!

I like a lot of Dreadzone and Zion Train stuff, but they've both released some awful shite. I've got more 'real' dub than you could shake a stick at, and y'know, I like 'em both. Although hearing 'Iron Shirt' on the last Dreadzone album just made me turn 'em off and put Max Romeo on

Difficult to do that when the lineup of whatever free festival you happen to be at consits of Asian Dub Foundation followed by Zion Train....
Obviously Mad Professor or Scientist or Scratch Perry is in a different league/class/galaxy

Seen Lee Perry live, and it was a waste of time. He's a producer, not a fucking performer. It was pointless.

 

[Fidel]

They all be shit!


Atrocious crap for whiteys - listen to some proper dub!


Bandulu were ace though - incomparable to the other two.

wot proper dub for proper whiteys or is you black ?

 

[William of Walworth]

Nah, he's orange, man ...

LOts of negativity about Molara in this thread -- at least I brought the news onto Urban though!

But I take what Dub says about DubDadda and others promising good things ...

 

[William of Walworth]

oo I have to look up name of albums name then !

only hear about ZT from Mannassa show on kiss sometime ago and the they did a flu live set on Kiss too & live at DubDay Brighton essential fest.

Early ZT albums include : Natural Wonders of the World In Dub, Great Sporting Moments Of The World In Dub, Passage to Indica, Homegrown Fantasy ... and several others ... <tokes phat one>

ETA : Check the WobblyWeb link in post one ...

 

[atomik]

LOts of negativity about Molara in this thread

Nothing negative about my comment - just an honest opinion! I'm sure she's a lovlely lady, but I still don't think she can sing.

 

[Fidel]

Only seen them live twice once at Lewisham T&C fair and Glastonbury, good bounce up and down on a summer afternoon - fast enough to be E friendly reggae, her belting out one love blah blah love etc was not a bad thing, in those circumstances

Can see how it might get on your tits if you wanted to listen to 'proper reggae for propper whiteys', then something slower and heavier might be more aproppiate