Latest Scarrs Podcast Episodes

014: Richard Thomas

Neighbourhood Radio - June 07, 2017 00:00 - 2 hours
Richard Thomas has over seen the rise and rise of his client Kane Robinson, better known as Kano, for more than a decade. He take us through their journey from the release of the seminal album 'Home Sweet Home' all the way through to Kano's latest offering, the Mercury & BRIT Award nomin...

013: Alex Hoffman

Neighbourhood Radio - May 24, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour
Alex Hoffman is the Global Executive Producer and Head of Music at Vice Media. He launched the UK arm of online video platform Noisey in 2011, prior to which he spent nine years at MTV, pioneering one of the most ground breaking music shows of the decade in 'Gonzo with Zane Lowe’. Listen...

012: Colin Batsa

Neighbourhood Radio - May 10, 2017 00:00 - 22 minutes
Colin Batsa has 13 strong years in the music industry under his belt establishing himself as one of urban musics trusted, major key players. Label owner, artist manager and Island Records A&R Consultant, Batsa talks in depth about how he got his foot through the door in the music busines...

011: Hattie Collins

Neighbourhood Radio - April 12, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour
Hattie Collins is a journalist and pioneer in her field, she has documented some of the most pivotal moments in Grime music and played a huge role from the genre's foundations right through to where it is today. Her career sees her tell the stories of artists, movements and happenings in...

009: Fraser T Smith

Neighbourhood Radio - March 16, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour
Grammy Award winning Fraser T Smith is a certified heavyweight in the music production world, having worked with an incredibly diverse range of talent from Kano to Adele and Britney Spears to Stormzy. Most recently being at the helm production wise of the latter's breakout debut album 'G...

008: Darcus Beese OBE

Neighbourhood Radio - March 01, 2017 01:03 - 1 hour
President of Island Records Darcus Beese OBE joins us for a very rare in depth conversation about his journey and the amazing things he has achieved along the way. He discusses growing up in Fulham, going from tea boy to president at Island Records, briefly losing his job at the company,...

007: J2K

Neighbourhood Radio - March 01, 2017 00:53 - 1 hour
J2K has lived through the golden era of grime, created a buzz from his early mixtapes 'Heat In The Streets' and had success as a member of legendary Grime crew Roll Deep but where things really took off was his creation and investment into the internationally successful brand Crep Protec...

006: Riki Bleu

Neighbourhood Radio - March 01, 2017 00:38 - 1 hour
Riki Bleu, esteemed music manager and publisher, takes us through his journey from program director at Channel AKA (formerly Channel U) to discovering Labrinth and Emeli Sande. We also discuss his role managing and guiding the careers of Naughty Boy and Krept & Konan, plus his relationsh...

005: Glyn Aikins

Neighbourhood Radio - March 01, 2017 00:25 - 1 hour
When you talk about A&R's in the UK Music scene, you have to mention Glyn Aikins, A&R Director at Virgin Records. From singing Craig David, Daniel Bedingfield and So Solid in the early days, right through to Emeli Sande, Lethal B and Krept & Konan - Glyn takes us through ascent up the ra...

004: Mr Shabz

Neighbourhood Radio - February 28, 2017 23:59 - 1 hour
Mr Shabz has established himself as one of the major keys in the Urban music scene. Starting out as a producer and founding member of So Solid Crew, he talks us through the rise and fall of group, plus managing K-Koke, and his work and on going relationship with Jay Z's RocNation.

003: Dumi Oburota

Neighbourhood Radio - February 28, 2017 23:48 - 1 hour
Manager of Tinie Tempah and CEO of Disturbing London joined us to discuss his journey; the rise and rise of Tinie Tempah, the obstacles he's faced, the idea behind Disturbing London and linking up with a series of high end brands and collaboartors. 

002: Posty

Neighbourhood Radio - February 28, 2017 23:37 - 49 seconds
Our second episode see us talk to Posty: Co-Founder of GRM Daily, CEO of Rated Awards, and host of popular online talk show NFTR. We discuss building GRM from the ground up, the idea behind NFTR, his brief managerial stint and the need for the Rated Awards.

001: Alec Boateng a.k.a Twin B

Neighbourhood Radio - February 28, 2017 23:20 - 1 hour
In our first episode we talk to Alec Boateng aka Twin B: A&R Director at Atlantic Records, and presenter on BBC Radio 1Xtra. We discuss his long running radio show, plus his work behind the scenes with Wretch 32, Jess Glyn, Rita Ora and WSTRN to name a few.