I’m Froggy from St. Pauls, born in Bristol in Clifton, grew up in St Pauls, all my life. Moved with all different people different music, and the free parties and all that. It was wicked yeah man when it comes to the weekend Thursdays the Dug Out after the Dug Out, the free parties different parties going, house parties hanging out with all the boys, have a good time. And now it’s slowly changing. The people I remember is really Grant Special K and all the different little crews. And now they’re all famous, all them are famous look, they took off in the music scene and everything, adverts different things. Even some young ones took over the bigger ones who was round for ages so that’s the music I used to have a good laugh.

The ones I really remember, Gloucester, Wild bunch, sweaty hall and the music was kickin’. I had a wicked time there and the rest of the events free parties use to be put on and all that for a good laugh, people used to have a good time. By Monday morning we was the biggest talk round at free parties who went to the free parties and we used to say yeah man it was wicked. Now everyone stays in his or her house thinking wish could go back to the same time but you cant, you know that. Bristol is like, real buzzy like everyone gets on like brothers and sisters. Really it was wicked on the weekend, weekdays would chill out everybody use to go back to work do their things. When Thursday come our weekend starts we would be out.

Some people use to take there things, you know what I mean, have a little smoke, and have a drink. Everyone use to meet at the dug out it will be, If you walk in the dug out it will be alright, walk about the carpet after a couple of minutes you start sticking to it, so you know it’s the dug out. In the corner come down the steps people use to meet me at the bottom of the steps people that knew me. People had there little corner of the dug out where they hang out see that’s what I can remember little things like that. Chippy a man, door man Dave really, lots of little things. Was just house parties really, Dug Out was the main spot going out, then after the little house parties. Massive Attack, Wild bunch some times was really putting shows on like Ray and a lot of people else, like in um Cinderella’s that’s where put some on Cinderella’s. You got Cinderella some times that’s on Park Street. And on the festival, use to put it on the festival on Argyle Street, as put it on till next morning till 12 o’clock the afternoon a lot of people still here, they put a limit on me till 2 o’clock now.

The best time was when I had a rave on Argyle Street and it was right on nearly 800 people on the street and the police didn’t know what to do and they had to let it go ahead and they said we aint stopping it, let it go ahead and that’s the best time, having over the police. All the local Dj’s then, Size, Flora, Daisy, all the local people are big now they come to build there name on my set and they say that, its them who I build up, all these big names and they all big now playing in clubs. That’s what I like about the 80’s. Its all change, its like the younger generation now wants to listen to this American stuff, rap! And everything yeah. We did have rap and we still had a little culture yeah, along music. Really nice style American stuff. All the young black kids, the reggae slowly killing, they wanna go to this rap all the young black peoples growing up listening to this rap music, American style. The reggae slowly dieing, some ways it is heart breaking some ways that’s the way life goes it changes it can always change and come back around. I think it will go back to the old stuff, when everybody had enough of this mad stuff its really going crazy. So really I think somebody will say yeah lets go back to the old stuff, really that’s, more slower more mellow. This stuff was real manic gotta move your head real fast and everyone goes back to relax stuff really. It can always change so lets see what happens, that’s what happened my time, it might do, we don’t know.