9:00pm WA time (11:00pm AEST), its time to relax and wind down with General Justice and Mumma Trees’ Dancehall, Jamaican, Reggae special Saltwater DJ set.

Mumma Trees is Perth’s Dancehall DJ Queen, keeping Jamaican music alive and growing in Western Australia, supporting female DJs all the while..

General justice is a daddy to 6 beautiful daughters, husband to a beautiful wife, a mad music fan, a Vespa rider, a Leeds United supporter and most importantly, a RASTAMAN.

Together they host The Bob Marley Outernational Festival, Australia’s longest running reggae music festival on Bob’s Birthday. Their radio show on community station RTRFM is also Australia’s longest running dedication to all things Eiree.

“General Justice, he’s the man. If he can’t do it, nobody can.”

It’s a ditty that’s punctuated Jamdown Vershun for years, spoken by the then-six-year-old daughter of its founder – Perth reggae veteran General Justice – who this year clocks up an extraordinary four decades presenting the radio show on RTRFM.

The milestone makes it the longest-running reggae show in the Southern Hemisphere, whose roots can be traced back to a chance meeting between Bob Marley and a 20-year-old General who had blagged his way backstage at a concert.

“I grew up in Chapeltown in Leeds with lots of West Indians. As a kid I really dug music like reggae, ska and rocksteady. But when I arrived in Perth in 1978 there was no reggae here at all,” he said.

“Four or so months later Bob Marley came to town and I couldn’t believe it. I bribed my way in past the groupies and got to meet him. I took him a present and while rolling it told him there was no reggae here.

“He said: ‘Boy, you should become a DJ and play music’. Then I got pushed back outside.”

It was kismet. He took Bob’s blessing and ran with it.

“I knew he was right. Perth is a very much do it yourself place. If you don’t do it yourself it doesn’t happen. So if I didn’t do it, where was I going to hear it?” he said.

Given reggae’s absence in the Australian charts, the General had to plead his case to score a slot on 6USV – Australia’s first reggae show on Perth’s first FM radio station.”
Read more at https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/general-justice-bob-marleys-blessing-gives-birth-to-longest-running-reggae-show-in-southern-hemisphere-rtrmfs-jamdown-vershun-ng-b881375572z

Starts at: 2020-05-17 23:00:00
Ends at: 2020-05-18 00:00:00

Location:
The Saltwater Music Festival
The Kimberley
Broome, WA, Australia