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The Red Stripes were a London based comedy-reggae duo who performed reggae versions of White Stripes songs and White Stirpes-styled versions of reggae classics. Billing themselves as ‘Jamaica’s greatest punky-reggae tribute to The White Stripes’ the group purported to be two emigrees on a mission from Jah to spread peace and love through reggafied garage rock. They were championed by peripheral members of The Clash and The Sex Pistols alongside media outlets including SPIN magazine, NME, The John Peel Show, BBC6, MOJO, The Face, The Guardian and others. They were signed by Universal Music UK’s digital division, shot a video in an African mudhut village, were part of the Rock Against Racism movement, and met The Wailers in a medieval fortress in Serbia at a festival both groups were performing at. After two years of shows (including such things as Rasta-Aid where they donated money to The Jamaican High Commission to help cannabis farmers who’s crops had been wiped out in a hurricane), the band’s members Greg Jarvis and Guri Hummelsund decided they had to retire the project as it was taking focus away from their more serious musical endeavours leading the experimental orchestral group The Flowers Of Hell and garage-rock outfit The Priscillas.
