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13 June 2008updated 27 Sep 2015 5:20am

Interview: Jah Wobble

Clean and sober for 22 years, Wobble's life bears an uncanny resemblance to one of his classic dub t

By Tom Quinn

Sitting across the table from Jah Wobble, it’s rather hard to believe this mild-mannered, conservatively dressed gentleman is the world-famous dub musician that once ran with the Sex Pistols and is rumoured – he insists unfoundedly – to have set his former drummer on fire.

Truth be told, with a white button-down and a nondescript pair of jeans, he looks like someone who should be picking the kiddies up from school, not laying down tooth-rattling bass lines as part of his latest dub track.

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