"Actor: Big Youth"

• Rockers | Blu Ray | (15/06/2009) from £20.53   |  Saving you £5.72 (29.68%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A riotous burst of energy and colour almost documentary in style Rockers is a cameo-packed gutsy thriller of the dread-locked ganja-smoking drummer Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace's attempts to succeed in the cut throat Jamaican music biz which provides much insight amusement and education. The film captures reggae at its musical apex with a vibrant and magnificent reggae soundtrack now digitally re-mastered from the original 35mm film made in 1978.

• Rockers | DVD | (01/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Writer-director Theodoros Bafaloukos responded to Jamaica's siren call all the way over in Greece and came to the island to make this 1977 movie about a band of Rasta men/Robin Hoods getting their own back at the expense of those perennial bloodsuckers, the "uptown top rankings", as men of money and position are called in Jamaica. The reggae star-studded cast is undoubtedly the movie's most rewarding feature, though some fans have objected to the demeaning sight of the incomparable late singer Jacob Miller threatening a friend with a knife over a purloined chicken leg or the equally great singer Gregory Isaacs exacting chump change for unlocking a tourist's rental car. However, these and other great reggae figures are also seen here in full and glorious performance at their peak. In fact, this film provides our only extended visual record of Miller's kinetic performance style and one of the best pieces of footage on Isaacs. Although Rockers doesn't approach the multi-layered complexity of The Harder They Come and it does betray a little superiority now and then to its characters, there are plenty of laughs as well as insights into life at the time for Jamaica's growing Rastafarian movement. Drummer Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace makes an unlikely though quintessentially Jamaican leading man as he moves between wooing the rich man's virginal daughter and making pit stops at the shack he shares with his wife and children. His band of accomplices is priceless, and the scene in which each struts in his own "stylee" to Peter Tosh's "Stepping Razor" is alone worth the price. --Elena Oumano

• Various Artists - Vintage Reggae Bash: Brooklyn 1983 | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £11.15   |  Saving you £0.84 (7.53%)   |  RRP £11.99

  This DVD consists of footage from an incredible Reggae festival held at the historical Empire Roller Skating Center in Brooklyn, New York, circa 1983. It includes sets from legendary artists such as Big Youth, Leroy Sibbles, Ken Botthe, Delroy Wilson, Tinga Stewart, Roman Stewart, the Blues Busters (Lloyd Campbell and Philip James) and Max Romeo. The 30,000-squarefoot venue, a go-to spot for skate-world renegades in the early '70's, was a de facto community center where teenagers came after school and where families spent the weekend. It was the perfect place to host a historically important music event such as this.