The small concert hall La Coupole in Biel became in 1975 one of the first (and one of the last) self-managed centers of alternative culture in Switzerland. Installed under the dome of a former gasworks, it gives the impression of being immersed into a heavy industry installation of the USSR. 

Since then, this concert hall has become one of the centers of reggae and hip-hop subcultures in Switzerland. For the Burning Spear ⁽¹⁾ concert in January 1981, which tour bus seemed as big as the hall, we - about a hundred spectators, myself included - queued for an hour in the cold to eventually get inside the hall. Rumors say that the band has not only been paid in cash but also in Swiss made weed. There was no stage light, which, to my shame, led me to take flash pictures.

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⁽¹⁾ Winston Rodney took the stage name of Burning Spear in memory of the nickname of Jomo Kenyatta, leader of the struggle for Kenyan independence, then for 13 years authoritarian and controversial president of Kenya until his death in 1978.