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APACHE INDIAN CALLS FOR A TRUCE BETWEEN BIRMINGHAM GANGS!

July 20th, 2014 | Add a Comment

  The 47-year-old singe hopes the Burger Bar Boys and Johnson Crew can bring deadly inner city violence to an end. By Roz Laws— Apache Indian at The Drum, launching the Simmer Down Festival in Handsworth Park. Reggae star Apache Indian wants Birmingham’s biggest gangs to agree a truce – and to declare it at today’s Simmer Down festival in the city’s Handsworth Park. The 47-year-old singer, whose hits include Boom Shack-A-Lak and Arranged Marriage, hopes the Burger Bar Boys and Johnson Crew can bring deadly inner city violence to an end. And he believes that the festival, staged annually to unite the community, is the ideal place to start bridging the divide. “I want the festival to bring people together,” explained the star whose real name is Steve Kapur, a former pupil of Handsworth Wood Boys’ School, and … Read entire article »

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HISTORY MAKING CONCERT IN BIRMINGHAM JULY 20!

June 26th, 2014 | Add a Comment

Reggae Icons To Make Musical History Steel Pulse, Apache Indian and Musical Youth to share a stage for the first time in Birmingham Written by Poppy Brady— SMILES: (From left) Apache Indian, Selwyn Brown, Mukhtar Dar, Amlak Tafari and Sharon Palmer MUSICAL HISTORY is being made and played in Birmingham next month when legends from three respected reggae institutions will share a stage together for the first time at the Simmer Down Festival 2014. Internationally acclaimed reggae icons Steel Pulse will play alongside Apache Indian and members of Musical Youth at the family festival in Handsworth Park, which is expected to attract at least 15,000 people from several generations. It’s a spectacular home coming for these award-winning artists who have toured the world many times over the decades, but say their hearts always belong to Handsworth where … Read entire article »

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