Dub Pistols
We’re hyped to be welcoming the legendary Dub Pistols to our stage in February 2024. The dub/big beat outfit celebrated their silver jubilee in 2022 with a new album and a documentary, proving that Barry Ashworth’s merry gang of outlaw reprobates are simply unstoppable. In March of 2023 they released their ninth studio album, Frontline, joined by a stellar band of featured artists including both legendary and award-winning collaborators such as Horseman, Top Cat, The Freestylers, Myki Tuff and Chezidek alongside long-term Posse members The Ragga Twins, Lindy Layton, Natty Campbell, King Yoof and Cheshire Cat, and regular Dub Pistol frontman Seanie T.
Chief rabble-rousers and festival favourites, the band are known for their veritable feast of jump-up party-starting sounds, melding dub, reggae, dancehall, ska and DnB into an irresistible tonic that has seen them amass a merry band of Pistoleros across the world.
Tickets on sale now.
Not many acts stay together for a quarter of a century and still remain firing on all cylinders. But the Dub Pistols juggernaut rolls on, exploring fresh sonic pastures and accelerating into 2022 — their 25th anniversary, their Silver Jubilee — like there’s no tomorrow.
The Dubs may have had an easier ride of it if they’d been a cartoon band like Gorillaz. There wouldn’t have been assorted band member casualties along the way, for starters, as life on the road took its toll. The multi-cultural collective has involved dozens of artists and musicians over the years — some remaining for years, a few for the duration, and others just popping in for a guest appearance. Their sound has accordingly morphed a variety of times since their inception: taking in dub, punk, jungle, ska, breakbeat, hip-hop and a whole lot more, it’s been a long road travelled.
Throughout an eight-album career and literally thousands of shows, the band has rolled with the punches — enduring setbacks and fuck-ups before piecing themselves back together and morphing into one of the most loved and enduring festival bands on the circuit. Hardest-working band in showbiz doesn’t even cover it.
Future Yard presents
Dub Pistols
+ Support TBC
Saturday 24th February 2022
£20 advance – Standing
75 Argyle Street
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Tickets available online in advance or in person at the Future Yard Box Office.
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