23/03/2026
On Wednesday 8 April, Dub Me Always is pleased to present a night of roots reggae and foundation dancehall when L*zlee Lyrix meets Bigga Monroe, with support from Jandisc Records DJs and the night’s regular host, DJ David Katz.
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Born in southeast London to Jamaican parents, Dr William ‘L*z’ Henry is an author, social anthropologist, criminologist and community engagement specialist who is also a longstanding veteran of sound system culture: under the name L*zlee Lyrix, he began chatting on the legendary Saxon sound in 1982, and subsequently became the primary deejay on Ghetto Tone, the south London sound system that had a weekly residency on Brixton’s Railton Road during the 1980s. After appearing on the 1983 LPs Live At DSYC PT 2 & 3, his ‘Put Back Your Truncheon’ was issued on Greensleeves’ UK Bubblers subsidiary in 1985, the same year he voiced material for King Jammy and Junior Reid in Jamaica. And in addition to running his own Ghetto Tone label, he went on to cut dancehall and jungle material for labels such as Music Of Life and MCS, and enjoyed successful live performances in Europe, the USA, Jamaica, and Grenada. Dr L*z has contributed to numerous books exploring aspects of the British sound system experience and black British identity, including Jesus Dub: Theology, Music and Social Change; Caribbean Narratives of Belonging: Fields Of Relations, Sites of Identity, and his own What The Deejay Said: A Critique From The Street; as well as the collection he co-edited, Narratives Beyond the UK Reggae Bassline; his 2010 film Resisting The System: Reggae in the 21st Century features artists such as Junior Kelly, Turbulence, Papa Levi and Sister Audrey.
Bigga Monroe is part of the Southend sound system crew DCOE, which posits the city as the Dub Capital of Europe, due to the high number of reggae dances held there since the 1990s, and a vibrant sound system presence dating back to at least the 1960s. In addition to his duties as a selector, he is also a researcher at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Sociology and is a postgraduate tutor and fellow of Wolfson College. His written work and research projects have explored aspects of Black culture in Britain, including the crucial contribution of reggae, as seen in the Black British Voices Project which was published in 2023 and the Reggae Transformations Project – How Reggae Music Transformed British Culture; he is also the author of Black Men in Britain: an Ethnographic Portrait of the post-Windrush Generation.
Jandisc Records was established in Los Angeles in 2007 by J Bonner and Nicki Bonner. Specializing in revival reggae, the label has since released music by artists such as Lone Ranger, the Black Emeralds, Jah Faith, Sir Scorcher, Ras Congo, Robby Spengler and Raynier Jacildo. The Jandisc DJs will be throwing down vintage original reggae vinyl on the night, alongside some of their own releases.
Expect roots reggae and foundation dancehall galore on the night, with conscious and politically-relevant lyrics, delivered live and direct on the mike.
7:30-11:30pm
Upstairs at the Ritzy
Brixton SW2 1JG
Free entry
