
16th Summer Jam 2001 in Köln (06.07.-08.07.2001)
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YUSH, it was crowded, it was the first time since the very beginning of the Summerjam Festival
that the cash desks had to be closed. On Saturday evening more than 30.000 people
were on the festival island. About 25.000 sold tickets (plus a huge amount of employes,
vendors and guests) is the biggest audience that has ever been to a Reggae event in Europe.
But Summerjam posse kept calm, having party, fun, smoking, drinking,
no hussle, just relax and dance. It was absolutely wicked to see
this lovely crowd every year at this festival.
On the other side it was an incredible chaos on Summerjam 2001: Too many people on the island, too many people on the
campground, not enough space on the campground due to very high level of water in the lake,
parking places still too far away from the
camping and the area, heavy rainfall during Friday night and all day long on Sunday.
Summerjam was a happy festival, well organised even for this huge number of attendants, of course, it wasn't perfect and people
will find enough things to complain about but: It worked out, the festival took place without any big problems, the
lineup was (nearly) complete and scheduled times (on the mainstage) were kept.
On friday the kickoff on the mainstage was done by Germanys I-Shen Rockers, first time on Summerjam. Due to Mr Vegas' late arrival
the schedule had to be changed what lead to some confusion. Even after Third World was
finished Mr. Vegas was still not there and Anthony B was announced. The confusion was complete after the break when all
of a sudden Vegas appeared instead of the announced Anthony B. Anyway, both Vegas and Anthony did great shows.
Meanwhile on the tent stage surprisingly good Roots shows took place: The upcoming Nazarenes and the
"almost forgotten" Prezident Brown (together with Germanys Patrice) showed that there is not only new Dancehall coming!
The late show in the tent was done by Hypnotix, outside heavy heavy rainfall, inside a packed tent and a hot Dub-Show.


Saturday was Germany day: Five bands from de-land celebrated the new upcoming "homemade" sound:
Starting with the long time Reggae-stars Dr. Ring Ding and the Senior Allstars, playing original dancehall tunes
with Roots and Ska elements! Big Up to the great entertainer Ring Ding!
Next on stage Berlins newcomer band Seeed, great show, great sound, the new German dancehall crew! Patrice was the
afternoon show was the likkle gials, sweet and cheering ;-) before Gentleman
for the third year in a row presented his version of Jamaican Dancehall.
With Jan Delay the successfull journey through Germanys new scene was closed before the three
big Jamaican acts came on stage: Black Uhuru perfectly dubbed by the crazy
Sly and Robbie, the Morgan Heritage family and finaly the dancehall masters
Cocoa T and Sizzla (great shows although they could get much more
sympathy if they wouldn't advocate discriminating against homosexuals...)
Meanwhile in the tents the crowd was rocking! Both the live tent with a Hip Hop oriented program and the Soundsystem
tent with Soundquake, PowPow and the magicians of Blood and Fire were packed!
Sunday was rainday. It rained cats and dogs during the whole afternoon ...
Summerjam - for the first time on the second weekend of July (formarly the Chiemsee date ...) -
drowned, but amazingly still the crowd was grooving. On the main-stage
great Roots Reggae by Sixth Revelation, Misty in Roots and Dawn "No No No" Penn,
as well as Frankie Paul and Everton "Blend Dem" Blender was presented, meanwhile in the
tent the real roots of the Reggae were played: classical Ska and Rocksteady Rhythms
by UK's Intensified , Court Jester's Crew from Tübingen and Laurel Aitken, later
the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari brought the other Roots: Traditional Nighabinghi
drumming - a perfect finish for such a heavy weekend.
Meanwhile on the mainstage both Burning Spear and Culture didn't really
get the crowd back to party, the weather was simply to bad.
So, what is the summary of Summerjam 2001?
Europe's Reggae posse once again met to have a huge friendly party.
The shows on all stages were just one part of the festival.
The festival island itself with all the shops, especially the many record dealers,
was always grooving and moving.
Review by Peter Beckhaus with inputs by Martina Markwart (thanks for the photos!) and Anne Budnik!
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- 09.07.2001: Summerjam radio: next two Tuesday Nights (10.07. and 17.07.) from midnight on 1live-radio is going to broadcast summerjam specials (one hour each), check einslive.de for more info
- 09.07.2001: 25.000 sold tickets at Summerjam 2001! The biggest European Reggae event ever! Total number of visitors including the massive area outside was 40.000-50.000 people! Watch out for the reggaenode-review to come!
- 05.07.2001: Gentleman new on Saturday afternoon, times changed slightly, check PDF-Running order (time-planner2001) and the HTML-RunningOrder
- 03.07.2001: PDF-Running order: Download the last version of the summerjam2001 time-planner in Acrobat pdf-format (just 84kb)!
- 03.07.2001: Countdown! The running order now is completed for sunday, Dawn Penn moves to the main stage, no replacement artist for Luciano could be booked, check the new Running Order which should be very close to the final runing order
- 02.07.2001: Weatherreport: wetter.de announces 70% rain-probabilty and cold temperatures, but donnerwetter.de says 23° and just cloudy...... Be prepared!
- 02.07.2001: Finally Luciano now is really not coming, there were minimal chances until friday night, Luciano split up with his band. No new act announced so far.
- 26.06.2001: Reasons: Lucky Dube cancelled due to flight and visa problems, see luckydube.net, Luciano not yet cancelled for Summerjam, chances are!
- 25.06.2001: New rumours of cancellation: LMS not coming and Lucianos dates in the Netherlands and Belgium this week are cancelled, no info yet for the Summerjam week...
- 21.06.2001: Two weeks to go to the festival and again a major act had to cancel his appearance (and all other European shows): Lucky Dube! New Running Order shows Third World new on the list on Friday and Culture moving to sunday evening!
- 12.06.2001: New lineup for Friday: Culture is new! Saturdays WhiteStage Programme completed! See the Running Order!
- 10.06.2001: We have included the time-shedule to the Running Order! Furthermore we now provide a PRINTER-FRIENDLY time-planner in PDF (81kB, you need Acrobat-Reader to see the file, download it for free at adobe.com)!
- 08.06.2001: Wyclef Jean cancelled!
- 05.06.2001: Official Summerjam Website in new design online now (summerjam.de), all information in German only, so reggaenode.de still is your one and only international Summerjam platform!
- 23.05.2001: The Summerjam Magazine is out now and can be found in the German ticket shops!
- 03.05.2001: small updates of the Running Order.
- 11.04.2001: Capleton's European Tour is cancelled, including the Summerjam - appearance,
New on the list: Cocoa T and Mr. Vegas (!), see the new Running Order!
- 07.04.2001: Wyclef Jean will play a special Reggae concert on Friday night! The
official Summerjam 2001 poster can be seen here
- 02.04.2001: Running order for the tent stages added.
- 20.03.2001: Here we go! The first rough Running Order!!!!!
Organiser have announced to present an All-Day-All-Night Soundsystem tent presenting German Soundsystems!
- 22.01.2001: The new list of artists: Sizzla, Capleton, Sly and Robbie, Black Uhuru, Morgan Heritage, Beres Hammond Patrice, Seeed, Red Rat, Skatalites, Everton Blender, Frankie Paul, Freddie Mc Gregor, Lucky Dube, Misty in Roots, Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, Burning Spear and more
- 04.12.2000: First artists confirmed: Sly and Robbie, Morgan Heritage, Everton Blender, Beres Hammond, Lucky Dube, Misty in Roots
Currently not confirmed are: Sizzla, Cocoa T, Red Rat, Bushman, and Barrington Levy
- October 2000: The Next Summerjam will be 06.07.2001 - 08.07.2001 again in Cologne, watch out for more news!
The following list of acts is the rough running order that happenend on summerjam 2001.
The PDF Version shows the last announced time schedule as of 4th July 2001: PDF-Version
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Friday 6.7.2001
Main Stage |
Yellow Tent |
Green Tent |
White Tent |
I-Shen Rockers (14:00)
Dreadzone (15:20)
Third World (17:00)
Mr. Vegas (18:30)
Anthony B (20:15)
Guru's Jazzmatazz and guests (22:15)
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Prezident Brown & Panache Culture (21:00)
Nazarenes (22:45)
Hypnotix (00:45)
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Skill Battery Soundsystem
(formerly Blessed Love Sound)
(18:00)
Adrian Sherwood &
On-U-Soundsystem
(22:00)
Skill Battery Soundsystem
(00:00)
|
Ganja Riddim Crew
Jambo Soundsystem
Rightous Movement
Deebuss
South Connection New Corner
Lucky Punch feat. Mc Malek
Fred and Barney Sound
Massive Joey & Untouchable Sound feat Jah Secco
South Connection Classics
(please check the tent for time shedule)
Info on all German Soundsystems at reggaenode.de/soundsys
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Saturday 7.7.2001
Main Stage |
Yellow Tent |
Green Tent |
White Tent |
Dr. Ring Ding and the Senior Allstars (12:20)
Seeed (13:40)
Patrice (15:00)
Gentleman & KRS (16:20)
Jan Delay and the Sam Ragga Band (17:30)
Black Uhuru & Sly and Robbie (19:00)
Morgan Heritage (21:00)
Cocoa T / Sizzla (22:45)
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Levi Roots, Johnny Clarke, Prince Alla and the Dub Asante Band (18:00)
Natty Flo, Tolga & the Backyard Crew (20:30)
Afu-Ra (23:30)
D-Flame & the K.P. Crew (01:00)
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Soundquake Soundsystem (16:00)
Pow Pow Movement (20:00)
Blood And Fire Soundsystem featuring U Brown, Dennis Alcapone, Ranking Joe, Spikey Tee presented by Steve Barrow and Dom Sotgiu (23:00)
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General Levy & Badadub
Beez Sound
Soul Jah Sista
Love Vibration
Ragganoya
Zion Sounds
Studio One Session
Culture Rock
(please check the tent for time shedule)
Info on all German Soundsystems at reggaenode.de/soundsys
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Sunday 8.7.2001
Main Stage |
Yellow Tent |
Green Tent |
White Tent |
Sixth Revelation (12:30)
Misty in Roots (14:00)
Dawn Penn & Junction Band featuring Delroy Williams (15.35)
Frankie Paul / Everton Blender (17.15)
Burning Spear and the Burning Band (19:10)
Culture (21:00)
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Intensified (15:30)
Court Jester's Crew (17:00)
Laurel Aitken (18:45)
The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari (20:45)
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Soul Jazz Soundsystem (15:00)
Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem (18:30)
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TALENT STAGE!
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Info Status as of 8th July 2001, all Information given without any guarantee! Reggaenode.de is not responsible for the lineup, please contact the organisers at contour-music.de for any inquiries!
Parallel programm during the whole festival:
- Circus ChangHigh (Denmark)
- Childrens Playground (supervised)
- Bazar
- (Ital) Food and Drinks
- Service: Infodesk, Meeting Point, Luggageservice etc.
- Cinema: Reggaecinema during the festival
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