We are delighted and excited to announce that dub legend the Mad Professor will be performing live and direct at the Scott Arms Kingston on Saturday 23 August 2025. This will form part of the Ariwa record label's 45 years of Dubbing You Crazy Exclusive Dub Plates World Tour. Mad Professor will be joined by Sister Aisha and the Ariwa Showcase from 7pm right through to 1am.

Equally renowned for producing deep roots reggae, trance-inducing dub and bittersweet lover’s rock, the Mad Professor’s Ariwa Sound stable is a veritable institution of British Reggae.

We are now celebrating over 40 years of Ariwa ingenuity and those who have had the pleasure of spending time in Professor’s company know that he is a man of high intelligence and easy wit, committed to progressive social change as well as evolutionary music; he is also a gentleman in every sense of the word.

A producer, engineer and remixer who’s known to his mum as Neil Fraser, Mad Professor needs hardly any introduction to both reggae and dance music fans alike. He has collaborated with reggae artists Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Sly and Robbie, Pato Banton, Jah Shaka, Channel One Soundsystem and Horace Andy, as well as artists outside the realm of traditional reggae and dub, such as Massive Attack, The Orb, Sade, Gaudi, Grace Jones and Perry Farrell.

Fraser emigrated from Guyana to London at the age of 13 where he collected recording and mixing equipment, eventually opening his own four-track recording studio, Ariwa Sounds, in 1979 in the living room of his home in Thornton Heath.He began recording lovers rock bands and vocalists for his label and recorded his first album after moving the studio to a new location in Peckham in 1982.

Fraser's Dub Me Crazy series of albums won the support of John Peel, who regularly aired tracks from the albums throughout the 80s. The mid-1980s saw releases from Sandra Cross, Johnny Clarke, Peter Culture, Pato Banton, and Macka B.Fraser moved again, this time to South Norwood, where he set up what was the largest black-owned studio complex in the UK, recording lovers rock tracks by Cross, John McLean and Kofi, along with Jamaican artists including Bob Andy and Faybiene Miranda.

He teamed up with Lee 'Scratch' Perry for the first time in 1983 for the recording of the album Mystic Warrior (1989).

Sister Aisha is a soundman’s daughter and a true roots dawta. Born Pamela Ross on October 1962 in Wolverhampton, England, child of Jamaican parents, she debuted at the tender age of eight on her father’s Soundsystem. She’s trod the world singing her joyful songs and doing Jah Works. But no matter where she goes — be it Africa, Brazil, Europe, Australia, Scandinavia, Mexico, or Japan –she’s uplifted and inspired the ones who hear her sing. Her American debut came in March 2004 with Mad Professor when she blessed NYC with a special appearance. Her 1st albums, “High Priestess” and “True Roots” were produced by Professor on his Ariwa label, her last two, “Zions Daughter” and “Raise Your Voice” were produced by Twinkle Brother Norman Grant. All are roots classics.

When ORB sampled “Creator” on the hit “Blue Room” , and Ministry of Sound sampled it again on “Roll To The Floor” , Aisha reached an even wider audience.

Jah Shaka, the respected UK Soundman, continually played a dub mixes of “Creator” in session, thus introducing everyone to Aisha’s magical & angelic voice, singing one of the deepest and most heartikal of roots tunes.

Mad Professor has created 12 instalments of the Dub Me Crazy series since 1980 and his world tour takes in London, Milton Keynes, Croatia, Spain and, of course, Kingston in Dorset!

This will be an exclusive, intimate event limited to just 200 people. Tickets are on sale via Eventbrite for £25 with a very limited number of Early Bird tickets available for £20. This will sell out so book early to avoid disappointment.

Mad Professor and The Ariwa Showcase @ The Scott Arms