Last Reel Hero

The members of Last Reel Hero all came up listening to punk and plenty of Jamaican music as youths and fledgling musicians. After years of playing individually in different punk, ska, and hardcore bands, that love for the crossover of cultures and musical styles that seemed so steeped in a synthesis of cultural mythologies came together and in 2017 the band Last Reel Hero emerged. The name came from the 1972 film The Harder They Come starring reggae legend Jimmy Cliff as Ivanhoe Martel whose friend takes him to see the 1966 spaghetti western classic Django and at a harrowing scene in the film, Ivanhoe's friend Jose exclaims, "the hero can't dead 'til the last reel."