I & I: The Natural Mystics

A celebration of Bob Marley and the Wailers
with Colin Grant

Sat 8 Oct, 4pm, £5
The Old Market

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Earlier this year Andrea Levy chose Bob Marley’s Redemption Song as one of her Desert Island Discs. Now,
Colin Grant, author of I & I: The Natural Mystics, rides the rollercoaster history of this reggae superstar and his fellow Wailers. Over one dramatic decade Jamaican R&B crooners Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley swapped their sharp two-tone 60s suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to become the Wailers − one of the world’s most influential bands. Colin Grant – cultural historian and author – explores the Wailers’ Rastafarianism, their music, their fluctuating fortunes, and the politics and ideologies that provoked their split. Through a mix of reportage and revelatory history, he examines their quest to become not just extraordinary musicians, but also natural mystics.

‘In Grant’s hands, life in Trench Town in the 1960s is energetic and theatrical, rich in comedy and tragic irony.’ The Guardian