Dreadzone

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Dreadzone are a British band whose music is an eclectic fusion of dub, reggae, techno, trance, and folk. Dreadzone have so far produced five studio albums and one live album.

Dreadzone formed in 1993 when ex-Big Audio Dynamite drummer Greg Roberts teamed up with Tim Bran, who had previously worked as a musician and sound engineer for Julian Cope. The name Dreadzone was suggested to Greg and Tim by Don Letts.

Tim and Greg were soon joined by bassist Leo Williams and keyboardist Dan Donovan, also formerly of Big Audio Dynamite. The band signed to Creation Records in 1993 and released their first album 360°. The following year the band signed to Virgin Records and released their second studio album Second Light. In the meantime, Dreadzone had become a favourite festival act and in June that year played the Dance West at Glastonbury Festival.

In January 1996, Dreadzone had their first - and so far only - UK Top 40 hit with Little Britain. The song sampled a line from the 1968 cult British film if... - "Britain today is a powerhouse of ideas, experiments, imagination."

John Peel championed Dreadzone on BBC Radio 1, and cited Second Light as one of his favourite albums of all time. Tracks from Second Light also dominated Peel's Festive Fifty in 1995, and Dreadzone recorded six Peel Sessions between 1993 and 2001.

Between 1998 and 2001 the Dreadzone Soundsystem hosted the popular Dubweiser club night at Notting Hill Arts Club.

On 26th October 2006 it was announced on the Dreadzone forums that Dreadzone guitarist Steve Roberts, the brother of Greg Roberts had died. 

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