Sunday 6th April
9am – 5pm
Ace Cafe London’s annual Scooter Sunday, to be held at the cafe 9am to 5pm, Sunday 6th April, celebrates not only the two-wheeled blue smoke of Lambrettas and Vespas, but also the 66th anniversary of Tamla/Motown established Detroit in 1959 and the 57th anniversary of the 1968 founding in London NW10 of Trojan Records.
Trojan’s rapid growth during its first year was due in no small part to the development of a working class youth movement that embraced, this then new to Britain, Jamaican Reggae music as part and parcel of its culture. The purchasing power of this fast developing young demographic resulted in an explosion in sales in the summer of 1969, a moment known and recognised since by the term “Spirit of ‘69”!
DJ Stompy will be playing the best in Soul (Atlantic, Stax, Tamla), old school Trojan Reggae, Ska and Rocksteady, from artists like Desmond Dekker, Jimmy Cliff, Prince Buster, Justin Hinds, The Pioneers, Toots & the Maytals and a whole lot more with “Nowhere to Run”, “Get Ready” for a magnificent Double-Barrel day of the “Most turnin’ stormin’ sound o’soul”, skanking, stompin, n’ “Dancing in the Street” at the Ace from noon.
Prizes up for grabs for Best Classic and Best Modern scooters at the Ace include, courtesy the publisher Mortons, a subscription to https://www.scootering.com/
See link:
https://www.facebook.com/TrojanRecords/
NB: With 2025 being the 56th anniversary of the launch in 1969 of the now-legendary Raleigh Chopper, see link:
https://www.raleigh.co.uk/gb/en/bike-knowledge/a-look-back-at-the-raleigh-chopper/
Special guests at the Ace on the day include riders with “Choppers”, Chippers” n’ “Tomahawks”.
See you at the Ace!
