Story: Douglas Johnson
Local musician – and sometime Messenger reporter – Rob Smith has launched a new EP, with the prospect of a full album later in the year.
The 5-track EP, entitled The Donation, is a positive and uplifting take on Rob's discovery about his early life in children's homes and the lives of his ancestors captured as slaves.
Rob's favourite track is Self Harmer, he says,
“because of its meaningful lyrical construction that will relate to so many people suffering silently. For me, becoming a self-harmer relates to so many negative things we do either to ourselves or to others, with an end result that is the same.”
The EP was produced by Pitsmoor’s Jody Wildgoose, who had recently worked with Reverend and the Makers. Self Harmer has since been re-engineered in a reggae version by Errol Brown, formerly Bob Marley's sound engineer.
The Donation is available to download at