Kenny Knots is far from a household name, even in specialist reggae circles, but was a regular one on the sound system scene in the UK in general, and Hackney in particular.

I have a fairly good idea he was part of the scene centred around the Frontline in Sandringham Road, Dalston, in the Eighties, though this tune did not get a release until it was put out on 10″ vinyl in 2006.

I was delighted to find Kenny gets a prominent mention in Joe Thomas’s excellent novel Red Menace, a sequel to the brilliant White Riot – both of them set in and around Hackney and Stoke Newington (and, in the case of the latter, Tottenham’s Broadwater Farm Estate) in the late 1970s and mid-1980s respectively.