Tonight, 9pm, Phonograph; tomorrow, 10pm, Backstage Live
At last year's Clockenflap music festival, a reggae legend got a kick from a young lad who came to shake his hand.
'I really felt honoured to play at that event,' Clive Chin says. 'It's the first time a kid walked up to me and he held out his hand and he thanked me and said, 'Mr Chin, I really liked your set'.
'I thought, 'Oh God, a kid!' That really made my day.'
The kids, it seems, are ever-more important to 50-something reggae veteran Chin (right), who as a producer worked with Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Alton Ellis, and the Skatalites, among others.
Chin is on an educational mission to keep the spirit of the music he lives and breathes alive, and to spread the reggae love to China. To help him achieve that, he's doing a special Q&A session at Phonograph tonight followed by a DJ performance tomorrow night.
'It's very important, because China is now opening up and I feel that there's a need for the Chinese people to know about the music and where it came from, how it got started, the elements behind it,' Chin says of his trip to our shores. 'So I'm really not just playing the music, I'm bringing a different dimension. It's best for them to know it first-hand, not coming from a third-party source.'
