Stereo MC’s will make the A38 Ship dance
Stereo MC’s are one of the best known British hip hop, electronic bands, and they have a hit song called Connected that will have been in the ears of anyone who was young in the early 90s. Stereo Mc's will be back to Budapest on 4 November at the A38 Ship to take you back in time and make you dance to their hits.
Stereo MC’s are probably the first band that comes to mind, with the song Connected, which is no wonder, as the 1992 single made the international Top 20. The album of the same title reached number 2 in the UK Albums Chart and the band took home the Brit Awards for Best Band and Best Album in 1994.
The band's founders, Rob and Nick, were childhood friends and neighbours, and formed Stereo Mc's in the mid-eighties. Their inspiration was their shared love of early hip hop, funk and electronic music. Their debut album 33-45-78 was released in 1989, followed by tours with De La Soul, Living Colour and A Certain Ratio. The duo then flew to New York to record their second album, Supernatural, which featured hits such as Elevate My Mind and Lost In Music, which became a club hit in both the UK and America. And their tour with Happy Mondays cemented their success. They have also remixed for Madonna, U2, David Holmes, Latifah, Terranova and The Jungle Brothers.
In 2015, they started their own label, Connected, with Terranova, to not only release their own music, but also to support house, techno and other electronic music artists as a label. In 2025, the band started touring the US and made a memorable appearance on Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show, before heading to Europe in the autumn. They will be arriving on the A38
Ship on 4 November. Tickets go on sale on 28 March at 10am at www.livenation.hu and www.funcode.hu.
The Stereo Mcs are back with a brand new album and live show:
Daily Operation is proud to represent the Stereo Mcs live shows in Europe.
The legendary Stereo Mcs will perform their classic breakthrough album “Connected” in its entirety for the very first time and showcase songs from their forthcoming Collected Album CD box released on Universal Rec worldwide, which includes all albums, remixes, unreleased and new songs.
With one of the best live dance music shows on the planet, the mighty Stereo Mcs have been leaving their mark on the landscape of Pop and Dance Music for over 20 years.
Often labeled as one of the UK’s most iconic bands they have toured with U2, Peter Gabriel, Happy Mondays, Lenny Kravitz and many more.
An enormous commercial success, the band took the '90s and 2000's by storm with their brand of Dance and Hip Hop that helped change the face of the music scene in Europe. The Stereo Mcs have released 9 studio albums, 1 compilation album, had several top hits such as Connected, Elevate my mind, Step It Up, Ground Level, Creation, Lost in Music, Deep down and dirty, won awards, sold out world tours and sold in excess millions of albums worldwide.
The line-up of the new Stereo Mcs show for the 2014 tour is: Rob Birch vocals, Nick Hallam electronics, Owen If – drums and Cath Coffey + Aina Westlye background vocals.
The Stereos are exceptions to every rule – the rap band rock fans could dig, the dance act it was cool for indie fans to groove to, sought-after as remixers, producers or collaborators by everyone from the U2 to Madonna (Frozen and Music). In addition they helped to bring artists like Finley Quaye and Jurassic 5 to worldwide attention by releasing their music on their Natural Response label.
STEREO MCS VIDEOS:
www.mtv.co.uk/stereo-mcs/videos/connected (Connected)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw8j7f95x3k (Step it up live)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk1oIbpADqk (Deep down + dirty)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tslVys1gpI (creation)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3jHPjNcOhE (Boy)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=93x3j1pjBJk (Black Gold)
www.nme.com/musicvideos/stereo-mcs-on-33/236923 (on 33)
www.mtv.co.uk/stereo-mcs/videos/lost-in-music (lost in music)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVC25rhBGVQ (elevate my mind)
www.muzu.tv/stereo-mcs/running-music-video/237337/ (running)
A 10 disc CD and DVD celebration of the UK’s most innovative act will be released globally on October 27th 2014.
“We still love it, that’s why we’re still doing it. I think we’ve got our best music to come, I really love the three new tracks here, and we feel energised. We’re constantly searching for something new.”
Nick Hallam, 2014.
“You have to commit yourself to it and the love you get out of it is the reward, and that’s what you look back on. Anything else you get from it materialistically will come and go; fame will come and go; people will come and go – but the love you have for writing and performing will always stay in you.”
Rob Birch, 2014.
The Stereo MC’s were the first British group to take hip-hop to stadiums. They have remained resolutely true to themselves and have produced some of the most stunning, inventive music to emanate from the UK in the past three decades.
Relocating to London in the mid 80s, Nottingham-born childhood friends Nick Hallam and Rob Birch soon started making music together that owed little to the glam and punk rock musical tastes of their youth. Heavily influenced by hip-hop and what would become known as urban music, the duo painstakingly taught themselves how to loop beats (initially on an old music centre complete with a cassette deck). Soon learning to sample, the pair (with long-term fellow traveller Owen If on drums, and later, Cath Coffey on vocals) got a deal with the fabled Island Records. Within a handful of years, they had a No. 2 UK album with Connected and were playing as U2’s guests on the Zooropa tour, high on the bill at Glastonbury and winning two Brit Awards in one evening. They have gone on to produce four further high quality albums and are in much demand as a live attraction.
This handsome 9 CDs + 1 DVD set brings together more or less everything recorded by the group to date, plus three brand new tracks. Here fans can enjoy their first tentative steps on 1989’s 33 45 78, their breakthrough album Supernatural, the 1992 Brit-Award winning Connected, its long-awaited follow up, Deep Down & Dirty from 2001, together with the albums Paradise, Double Bubble and Emperors’ Nightingale from the past decade. The live-in-concert Connected video is included the package to sample to unstoppable force that the Stereo MCs are live, alongside all of their promotional videos. To add to this, we have collected 2 disc’s worth of rare and unheard tracks and remixes, and importantly three brand new tracks, ‘Good Feeling,’ ‘Dance Tonight’ and ‘Autumn Leaves’ recorded in the group’s Brixton studio earlier this year.
The lavish package contains a brand new 32 page book featuring unseen images, memorabilia and an interview with Nick Hallam and Rob Birch telling their story in their own words. After all that the band have achieved it’s time to stay tuned, because in the words of the band “We’ve got our best music to come.”
Also available as a digital set
