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let's we sat down with the celebrated director and clash videographer at the old camden palace now koko in camden town in north london. john thanks for being on going underground here at a venue the old camden palace where the clash of course meaningful to me empty today and like it was then we have to start of a trojan records half a century the anniversary tell me about its provenance and what it shows about the jamaica u.k. connection the trojan records is a tremendously important label that started in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight when i was twelve years old and by the turn of sixty nine it was having an unprecedented amount of chart hits a run that's never happened again in the last sixty years and this is very empowering to my generation i'm first generation british born black which kind of rolls off the tongue now but back then it was a very confusing concept and it was through the music of trojan that we began to find out what we were about to understand the whole jamaican culture and what was very interesting about the label is this is that emerged at the same time as t

let's we sat down with the celebrated director and clash videographer at the old camden palace now koko in camden town in north london. john thanks for being on going underground here at a venue the old camden palace where the clash meaningful to me empty today unlike it was then we have to start of a trojan records half a century the anniversary tell me about its provenance and the what it shows about the jamaica u.k. connection the trojan records is a tremendously important label that started in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight when i was twelve years old and by the turn of sixty nine it was having an unprecedented amount of chart hits a run that's never happened again in the last sixty years and this is very empowering to my generation i'm first generation british born black which kind of rolls off the tongue now but back then it was a very confusing concept and it was through the music of trojan that we began to find out what we were about to understand the whole jamaican culture and what was very interesting about the label is this is that emerged at the same time as the birth

let's we sat down with the celebrated director and clash videographer at the old camden palace now koko in camden town in north london john thanks for being on going underground here in a venue the old camden palace where the clash of course meaningful to me empty today unlike it was then we have to start of a trojan records half a century the anniversary tell me about its provenance and the what it shows about the jamaica u.k. connection the trojan records is a tremendously important label that started in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight when i was twelve years old and by the turn of sixty nine it was having an unprecedented amount of chart hits a run that's never happened again in the last sixty years and this is very empowering to my generation i'm third generation british born black which kind of rolls off the tongue now but back then it was a very confusing concept and it was through the music of trojan that we began to find out what we're about to understand the whole jamaican culture and what was very interesting about the label is this is that emerged at the same time as th

and koko xu, a party planner. so you eat like this all the time? nice wine cellar?y we're surrounded by southern french wine and northern italian wine. >> anthony: mm-hmm. >> tim: and if you like, you can eat in different district of wine country every night. >> anthony: isn't this supposed to be communist china? i mean, it seems like a very -- >> tim: can i ask one question? are there any one of our communist party comrades party members? >> anthony: no, no, i'm kidding. i'm a bit of a red diaper baby, but, no, what i mean to say is, it just seems that the realm of the possible here is very big. >> daniel: absolutely. it's a big stage. >> anthony: mm-hmm. >> daniel: i mean, in new york city, or in other places in the world, you can see that it might be a massive project. but that's probably the only one in the whole city. but in shanghai, there's ten massive projects going on. and then there's ten more coming up in the next couple years. >> tim: you know, it's a big world, big city, but small village at the end. and i think food is the best weapons on earth to make

it's in your blood, your koko.native hawaiian people. >> anthony: what's your feeling here? >> andrew: i do feel like i'm hawaiian in a sense. you know, because it's, like, my place. but culturally it's a different story. >> anthony: well let me ask you this, you're saying you're not hawaiian? >> mark: no. >> anthony: what's your feeling about spam? >> mark: i love, i love spam. >> anthony: so you're hawaiian. >> mark: i'm from hawaii. i'm born and raised, gonna die 808. >> anthony: the owners of ethel's are a sort of typical hawaiian mix. okinawan ryoko ishii, aka mom. mainland japanese husband yoichii. daughter minaka, who i guess would be japanese-okinawan-american slash hawaiian. and son-in-law robert who is, of course, mexican. >> mark: it's the pig feet. >> anthony: oh, nice, that's pretty. oh, wow look at that! that's the tripe. >> mark: that's the tripe, that's the tripe. >> anthony: that looks good. [ laughter ] >> mark: spam and bitter melon! >> anthony: now we are talking. oh that's awesome. >> andrew: i

don let's there speaking to me at koko in camden town and that's it for the show before we go after the death of the last poets member month or noureddine widely seen as the grandfather of rap we'll play you out with a lot of poets performing here on going underground keep in touch with us about social media with you on monday according to some calculations three thousand two hundred two years to the day of the sacking of troy in the trojan war hero of the last poets with the streets a calling. cold industries are calling there's always the street. boys to big time to trade. abandoned. buildings to become the rage the latest. polling on the phrase number one so. it's gone. both ways you know who it puts on the head. they test the waters and dance. but never the name looking looking over. looking pale and knowing he was. only three and the only way out. next poser to let everything. go in the game. becomes. a ditch and become. a clown dream. this is all i've got. is a plot paid only. the stock would need to be if you take out if you would be so real i'll be romance young. boys young boys