A big shout out to Steve Stephens and his excellent Karma Reggae Show on a Thursday night www.galaxygoldradio.co.uk . Steve plays the best of roots and vintage reggae with more than the odd foray into the modern UK reggae scene; hence his inclusion of ‘Share The Sun’ on his playlist on Thursday night, big thanks to Steve for supporting the track and giving out the info, check the station out – it’s a good ‘un. Adios amigos!!
new EP soon and rocking in S America
Ahoyhoy, almost finished my new EP ‘Short Back and Sides’ a collection of four catchy, ska based tunes. You will be able to preview 3 tracks on the site very soon and the fourth is almost finished.
Meanwhile Wilcko is popular in South America with ‘Nice Work If You Can Get It’ getting airplay in Brazil, Venezuela, Panama and Colombia – they seem to have latched onto it down there which is fun, they obviously like a bit of UK reggae, also getting internet airplay here in the UK, slowly but surely….adios amigos
‘Share The Sun’ WaterAid vid on youtube
Ahoyhoy, I am really pleased to tell you that the vid I did for WaterAid using ‘Share The Sun’ is now on youtube. They do some really good work and deserve our support. Check the vid out by clicking the link, http://youtu.be/Zizho_HBY8Q
Enjoy (and donate)
Wilcko and WaterAid
‘Been speaking to the nice people at WaterAid – the result is a short film to my song ‘share the sun’ taken from the UK reggae album ‘nice work if you can get it’ that supports the very fine work done by the charity – our ‘drought’ here is utterly insignificant in comparison to the way some people have to survive. It will be up on youtube very soon.
Also, in the studio earlier this week recording the second track for my EP ‘short back and sides’ – watch this space
Wilcko Youtube Vid
Here is the vid I have been promising….
Enjoy!!
Youtube vid coming soon
….got together with my old mate 'Bus Pass' to make a vid for the 1 minute 41 second ditty 'Land of Lies and Pies' that I recorded down at Transmission, Brighton a couple of weeks ago – thanks to Ali for the usual superb service. I get a little bit political here but not too serious however I just couldn't resist poking a bit of fun at the politicos and their cronies – it's an upbeat bit of ska and I call it 'skatire' with a bit of 'skarcasm' thrown in for good measure – as my good mate journo Stevieo said 'not too subtle but very catchy!!' so keep watching for further announcements - should be up in a few days. Long live UK reggae!!
Love and harmonies….
Wilcko back in the studio on Tuesday week….
Ahoyhoy, going back in the studio in Brighton on Tuesday to do two things; another bit of UK reggae – a free download called 'nice work if you can get it' which will be available from the site and a short track called 'lies and pies' which will accompany a short film to go on youtube.
Also keep an ear out on the local beeb, hoping to get some tracks played on the 'undiscovered' airings hence the badges on the homepage, joined SoundCloud – like it 
Ahoyhoy; more music and some books!!
Greetings in this post Christmas, pre New Year time….I have not been hibernating, I have spent the last 3 weeks finishing off a couple of writing projects; the first is a novel called 'Twelve Bars, Four Stations, One Track' and it's a Rock 'n' Roll Roller Coaster and the second is a story that I have been telling kids in schools for decades and have finally finished the typed up version, it's called 'The Three Questions'. Just got to get them published now….think I will do it online.
Now that those are finished I can get back to the music, a new song 'Nice Work If You Can Get It' is going to be done soon and available from the site, it's the usual UK reggae stylee and I love it.
Happy New Year
wilcko on Last.fm
You can now hear six tracks from my album 'nice work if you can get it' on last.fm, alongside other UK reggae greats like Madness, The Specials and UB40, Wilcko will be airing his own stylee of UK reggae so check out a really great radio station and tune into Wilcko.
Recording more UK reggae in January
Yours truly can always be relied upon to do things in a round about way – new single track 'nice work if you can get it' will be recorded in January. It's a great piece of contemporary UK reggae got a great steppa backbeat and full of catchy hooks and it's going to be a free download so watch this space. Meanwhile the album of the same name is still available off the site.