“The culture was like London’s Brooklyn” JAH WOBBLE’s ‘Dub In The East’ out now

BASS legend JAH WOBBLE teases next week’s ‘Dub Volume 1’ album release with latest single, ‘Dub In The East,’ (via Dimple Discs).

Today’s single draw’s inspiration from Wobble’s East London upbringing, a journey into the historical influences that shaped his community, from the waves of Irish immigration to the lives of his watermen ancestors on the River Thames.

“I was the only Eastender in Public Image Ltd,” he said, “I’m from East London. There was the Irish famine in the mid-1800s and then you had another wave, which was when my mum’s family come over, turn of the century.

“So you got a real mix of peoples. But the culture was like London’s Brooklyn, or something primarily Jewish and Irish. Or maybe like the Lower East Side a bit. My old man’s family were watermen, skilled men on the river, it’s a very dangerous river that Thames.”

Wobble has recently been playing and recording with TIAN QIYI, formed by his sons Charlie and John Wardle, and joined them on their recently released sophomore long-player, ‘Songs For Workers.’

 ‘Dub In The East’ is available now via Bandcamp.

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