SoundSystem…Notting Hill…rig in the back of a truck…music unites…soca, calypso, disco, soul, ragga, race, colour, culture, in celebration people cross barriers, form communities, come together in the streets…create new cultures, new alliances…when the Clash played with Culture and took punk into reggae…in our minds we went with them…White Man in Hammersmith Palais was an anthem…hanging out in squats in Ladbroke Grove was an early education…crazy hippies, beautiful wasted girls…Gene October from Chelsea who had actually played with Sid Vicious man…lust for life took us over…driving from Somerset six of us laid flat on a mattress in the back of a pick up smoking horizontal spliffs on the motorway…through rush hour London sat up in bed in the back taking in the sights of the capital…naive country kids hit the big city…