PROFILE: Young Culture uplifts listeners and is making waves around the world
Photo credit: Dan Cohen.
Daily Reggae caught up with Richie Blake and Stevie Young from the amazing UK-based reggae band, Young Culture to learn about the band’s new EP, touring with icons like UB40, and the band’s passion creating and performing music.
It’s so great to connect with you. We are absolutely loving your new single, “All My Days”. It has such an incredible groove and I love your band’s sound! How did this song come together and what does it mean to you?
Richie Blake: Stevie and John put together the foundations of the song, and then my writing process - which is usually listening to an arrangement for a long time before laying lyrics down - the chorus just sang out to me, came about pretty quickly.
Like the EP the writing of ‘All My Days’ has been slightly different to before, in that we all came up with our parts separately, over some time.
The first verse is about telling people to wise up, while the second verse describes who I am as a Rasta with praise to His Imperial Majesty.
This song means a great deal to me. Since 2013, the deeper and deeper I’ve got into Rastafarianism. So the tune reflects my thoughts and the message I want to send - not just for now but all my life. I have to believe in what I’m saying, or the song wouldn’t be written.
Stevie Young: In terms of writing, originally we followed the same formula where I think of a chord pattern and drum beat and thinking of a bassline. But on the day we went in with uptempo and major keys.
