The Kandy Shop

"IT WAS AROUND 1972-3, while at art college in the leafy, conservative backwater of Cheltenham, that I got bitten by the reggae bug. The early Seventies was responsible for a wave of astonishing soul and jazz albums from Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Donny Hathaway, Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane and despite their considerable impact on my musical outlook reggae became something of an obsession." - Paul Bradshaw, from The Art of Buying Reggae Music: A back in the day journey from Dalston Junction to Tottenham High Road, a post on Ancient to Future, 21 October 2011