Biography

Missile Sound was established in Ipswich Suffolk Uk (1986) built on the foundation of Jamaican sound system culture.

With the migration of Jamaicans to the Uk in the late 50’s & 60’s the tradition of ‘Sound Systems’ was also exported. During the 70’s & 80’s every area of London, every City & Town with a West Indian population had their own crop of sounds with a team of a mainly man behind it, Selectors, MC’s, Engineers, Box Crew, Van Driver all were part of the team.

In Ipswich, there’s a large Caribbean community with a history of sound system reggae culture and in the early 80’s we use to go down to our local youth club ‘Murray Side’ on Nacton Road in the Nacton area of Ipswich where we use to practice chatting our lyrics and playing music as a hobby.

1984 was a huge turning point in the Uk with England’s number one reggae sound at the time ‘Saxon’ releasing their live recorded album ‘Coughing Up Fire’ which inspired a next generation of youths to start following sound system culture.

Sound system culture became a big national movement, it was just like football, where the fans supported and followed their team.

Missile Sound was officially announced in ‘1986’ with Governor coming up with the name ‘Missile Sound’ we quickly built a powerful sound system and started to organize and promote events in & around Ipswich. Once we were establish we started to play all over the Uk building a strong Uk reggae fan based.

They say variety is the spice of life, and in the 90’s we started to promote different genres of music which brought us into the commercial market.