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Carroll Thompson: Simply, hopelessly in love...

Profile and Interview by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 9 January 1982

A post-Christmas Carroll by PENNY REEL ...

Super Cat: Puss In Boops

Interview by Penny Reel, Music Week, 14 January 1989

Penny Reel prowls Miller’s Terrace with Super Cat ...

Mellow down the Mix

Memoir by Penny Reel, Black Echoes, 13 January 1996

Penny Reel at the pool table meets a man from creation. ...

Johnny Clarke: Where are the songs of Spring?

Profile by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 28 February 1976

Ay, where are they? PENNY REEL looks at the erratic career of JOHNNY CLARKE, the star should have been. ...

Barrington Levy: The Mellow Canary

Interview by Penny Reel, NME, 16 February 1985

Here comes Barrington Levy... Penny Reel listens to the sense and sensibility, trials and tribulations of a man on the verge of international stardom. ...

Toots & The Maytals: Toots Hibbert: The Man Who Would Be God

Profile and Interview by Penny Reel, NME, 21 February 1976

Rasta revelations courtesy of FREDERICK "TOOTS" HIBBERT of Toots and The Maytals, who'd rather incarnate here and now than talk about old times with PENNY ...

15, 16, 17, Dennis Brown, Revelation, Cool Notes, The, Heptones, The, Pat Kelly, Louisa Mark, Brown Sugar, Roland & Carolyn Catlin, Cassandra, T.T. Ross, Tamlins, The: Lover's Rock Rools OK

Overview by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 27 January 1979

Say hello to the schoolgirl revolution and the shortest cut to cleaning up in UK reggae. And ya thought reggae was all about guns, ganga, ...

Dennis Brown: When Two Systems Clashed at Club Four Aces: A snapshot of London reggae culture in the early '70s

Book Excerpt by Penny Reel, Deep Down With Dennis Brown, 9 February 2002

Penny Reel was the pre-eminent reggae writer of reggae's '70s heyday, contributing regularly to NME, Black Echoes and other publications. His Deep Down With Dennis ...

Alton Ellis: Alton and Hortense Ellis: Alton and Hortense Ellis

Review by Penny Reel, Select, January 1991

THE COMMANDING voice of Alton Ellis has been a constant feature in popular Jamaican music for over a quarter of a century and his classic ...

Johnny Clarke: Don't Stay Out Late (Penguin)

Review by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 21 January 1978

THIS IS the second album from Johnny Clarke since the sudden termination of his Virgin contract, and it marks the general decline in standard and ...

Bo Diddley: University of East Anglia, Norwich

Live Review by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 27 February 1982

BO DIDDLEY, as we all know, spans a 27 year career permutating a single riff to a sole conclusion: he is Bo Diddley! ...

Israel Vibration: The Same Song (Top Ranking)

Review by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 13 January 1979

CURRENT CULT item on the local reggae scene, this debut album from the Israel Vibration trio augurs well for Jamaican music in 1979, with an ...

Keith Hudson: A Better Brand Of Dub

Review by Penny Reel, NME, 14 January 1978

YOU MAY recall reading, a couple of years ago, an NME recommendation of Keith Hudson's Pick A Dub LP, on the now sadly defunct Atra ...

The Equators: 100 Club, London

Live Review by Penny Reel, NME, 28 January 1978

DURING RECENT months we have been witness to increasing media interest in the indigenous UK reggae scene, especially as focussed upon Matumbi, Black Slate, Steel ...

Adam & The Ants: Adam's Xmas Antomime

Live Review by Penny Reel, NME, 2 January 1982

Adam & The Ants: Theatre Royal, London ...

Gladiators, The: The Gladiators: Commonwealth Institute, London

Live Review by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 22 January 1983

THE INSTITUTE repays a visit. A central space enclosing stage and with surrounding access on tiered levels subdivided into small areas pertinent to the respective ...

Ruby Turner: Jewel In The Crown

Profile and Interview by Penny Reel, NME, 8 February 1986

IT MIGHT be late to break nationally but in this man's town at least Ruby Turner's beefy update of 'If You're Ready (Come Go With ...

Dillinger: Central London Polytechnic, London

Live Review by Penny Reel, NME, 25 February 1978

ON THIS opening night of his first full-length tour of the UK college circuit, Lester Bullocks better-known as Dillinger maintained an impressive, large and volubly ...

Frankie Paul: Ripe Mango (Blacker Dread)

Review by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 11 January 1986

OF THE GLUT of fine new singers to have emerged from the Jamaican dancehall sound during the past few years, Frankie Paul is probably the ...

Bloodfire Posse, The: The Bloodfire Posse: Are You Ready? (Synergy)

Review by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 18 January 1986

POSSE POSES ...