As Rodigan gets his well earned MBE for services to broadcasting I thought I’d run this little interview that I did for a website I was working on for Kiss a few years back. David Rodigan is an industry legend, period. For the last 30 years he’s spread good, good reggae and dancehall to the masses, and since 1990 he’s done so on Kiss. Here he talks dancefloor democracy, the history of Kiss, Perry Mason and why it’s all about the guy in Hornchurch. How did you get into music in the first place? It was the 1960s, Ready Stay Go was the hit TV show, there was early ska music and I was a young mod. I heard Prince Buster’s ‘Ten Commandments’ and ‘Al Capone’, two iconic recordings at that time, and I got hooked. What turned me on to that music was the rhythmic pressure and this crazy beat that was the wrong way round. It was so infectious. Describe your style… I will play anything from the hottest dubplate to something from the early 1960s – I believe you should play across the board and entertain most of the people. What’s the buzz of being a DJ? [...]