Yardie

5/18/2019

**_Offers little to get your teeth into_** >_Studio One selection after Studio One selection. The selector had the dancers where he wanted them, begging for more. Nobody who understood the history and roots of reggae could resist any record on the legendary Studio One label. From its Brentford Road headquarters in Kingston, Studio One and its founder Clement Dodd had encapsulated every form of reggae expression. His were the original bass lines, the original bass lines, the original drum patterns still borrowed from heavily by contemporary reggae producers and US rappers. Somehow, no other_ _rhythms in reggae seemed to swing as perfectly as a Studio One rhythm._ - Victor Headley; _Yardie_ (1992) _Yardie_ is the directorial debut of Idris Elba, and is about as pedestrian a film as

3/15/2024

Brought up in an almost tribally violent Kingston in the 1970s, the young "D" (Antwayne Eccleston) is witness to the brutal murder of his brother "Jerry" but luckily adopted by the local kingpin "Fox" (Sheldon Shepherd) who ends up sending him to London. It's here that he rendezvous with his ex-girlfriend "Yvonne" (Shantol Jackson) who fled some years earlier with their son - whom he hasn't seen since. He lands on his feet, rather, falling into the company of a band of musicians but before he can embark on a career with them, he encounters the man who slaughtered his brother a decade earlier. A red mist descends on "D" (now Aml Ameen) and no persuasion or pleading can divert him from a dangerous course of revenge that is setting a course for a clash with the ruthless "Rico" (Stephen Graham