Zion Train News Update - 11 June 2001
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DJ Perch and Molara have been out and about this Spring, taking their uplifting sound-system style to fans both old and new.
A welcome return to Poland, was greeted with a fantastic reception by the ever-keen Polish dub fans. In Opole we invited Jarek of Polish dub band Tabu Duby to sing with us, doubly nice as we had just finished some remixes of Jarek's latest work for release in Poland. We cannot wait to get back there!
Our first-ever visit to Israel in April was a memorable experience on several levels. In Tel Aviv (fantastic city, full of very warm folk) we played in the basement loading bay of a multi-storey shopping centre - a bizarre enough venue made even more so by the presence of hundreds of dog-sized bats that would fly around as soon as we dropped the bass in. We also played at the Tel Aviv Earth Day in a park in central Tel Aviv - beautiful day, beautiful people. The Israeli's long-standing reputation for trance parties obviously extends to dub too! Speaking of trance parties, we had the strange (to us at least) experience of walking along the beach in Tel Aviv to find a crowd of people of traditional Hasidic appearance going mental to a full-on trance / techno sound-system; we later saw some of the same people on the back of a truck driving through the town still blasting out the music to all and sundry - sights we won't forget in a hurry!
Next we had sound system gigs in Holland, including a Queen's Night party in Den Haag (Queen's day is a big public holiday in Holland), with seven thousand very drunk and 'happy' Dutch folk in attendance.
Following that we've had several very successful UK gigs including Bristol, Glossop, Malvern (Molara's first home-town gig), and London (Gaz's Rocking Blues).
In March DJ Perch went to Lille to produce an album with the French dub band 10 Dubians - now released in France and Belgium on PIAS; as a consequence of this, as part of the launch of this album we had a sound system show on the * Batofar boat on The Seine in Paris; we played with the Dubians in support, and much fun was had by all, although the boat was swaying from side to side all the way through the session. The following day was the French national demo against the anti-sound-system legislation that is being introduced there - *support the protests* - maintain the right to party!
We are currently working on a new Zion Train album, for release late in the year.
Meanwhile, the Headmix CD, 'Reach Out was released last month on Universal Egg - Headmix have played a blinding set of launch gigs and look set to have an amazing Summer.
Very much looking forward to a summer of festivals and fun - check the website for further gig details.

perch@wobblyweb.com
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