Scientist

Scientist plays The Voodoo Rooms on Thursday 18 February, starting at 7:00pm. He's not just doing a best-of set; he's performing Scientists Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires in full, the landmark 1981 dub album that gave him his name. If you've never heard it, it's a classic of the genre, and hearing it played through from start to finish is a different thing entirely from putting it on at home.

For those who don't know the name, Scientist is Hopeton Brown, born in Kingston in 1960. He came up as a protégé of King Tubby, the legendary producer Osbourne Ruddock, and became one of the originators of dub music, bursting onto the reggae scene in the early 70s with a reckless mixing style that outdid even Tubby's wildest extravaganzas. He trained as an engineer at Tubby's in the mid-70s and later became the principal engineer at Channel One, where he produced a string of classic albums in the first half of the 1980s, including Scientist meets the Space Invaders, Scientific Dub, Scientist wins the World Cup, Scientist Encounters Pac-Man and Scientist and Jammy Strike Back.

Scientists Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires sits right in the middle of that run. It's a record that's reached far beyond the reggae scene, too: five songs from it were used as playlist tracks on the K-Jah radio station in the 2001 video game Grand Theft Auto 3. That's the one he's bringing to the stage in full, so you'll hear the whole thing as it was meant to be heard, not just a few highlights.

The show is presented by AGMP and is for over-18s only. Tickets are £27.50, and it starts at 7:00pm at The Voodoo Rooms, 19a W Register St.