Riddim & Roar

Before dancehall had a boy band, it had T.O.K. Four choirboys from Campion College in Kingston who traded harmonies for riddims and spent the 2000s making records that still fill a floor on the first bar. Footprints. Gal You Ah Lead. She’s Hot. Guardian Angel. Eagles Cry, the one that took Prince apart and rebuilt him over a Jamaican bassline. The New York Times called them the world’s greatest dancehall-reggae boy band, and for most of a decade nobody argued.

Then, in 2015, they stopped.

Alex, Bay-C, Craigy T and Flexx found their way back to the same stage in 2021 and have not left it since, touring now as Tribe of Kings. Switzerland. France. The Netherlands. Japan. Panama.

On Saturday 19 December, they bring it to Lugogo Cricket Oval.

Twenty thousand people under an open Kampala sky, a catalogue built for exactly this, and four men who have had a decade to think about how they want to play it. Come early. These are songs best heard from somewhere you can move.

Bring your riddim. Bring your roar.