But while my fellow carousers in The Green Monkey Inn are predominantly expats and American tourists here for the craic, most of the islanders the descendants of the slaves and, to a lesser extent, the Irish settlers are heading for a sports field a few miles away, in Salem. Here, the good ladies of Montserrat are unpacking their cool boxes and setting up their stalls for the Slave Feast. The PA pumps out ear-splitting contemporary R B and, bizarrely, the principal dress code seems to be green and orange tartan.
Thats our national dress, says Margaret Wilson, who runs nearby Olveston House where I am staying. Does she mean its an ancient Caribbean weave? Oh no. There was a competition to design it a few years ago
Margaret suggests a bowl of Goat Water. A cross between Irish stew and oxtail soup, Goat Water is Montserrats national dish . As were looking for somewhere to eat it, we spot a man with a long silver ponytail. Its Pete Haycock, formerly of the Climax Blues Band.
Pete and his band were part of the music phenomenon that made Montserrat famous. In the late Seventies and Eighties, some of the worlds greatest artists Paul McCartney, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, The Police came to record at Sir George Martins state-of-the-art Air Studios.
Its not far from where were chatting and later Margaret drives me up to see it. Abandoned after Hurricane Hugo devasted the island in 1989, its an empty shell now. We pick our way over the rubble and push open the front door. The once beautiful wood floors are rotting and every surface is covered with a thick layer of volcanic ash. The studio floor is strewn with papers, empty boxes and reels of recording tape. Outside, near the empty pool, theres a stone commemorating the first band to record at Air Studios: the Climax Blues Band and theres Petes name scratched onto the stone.
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