Firin' Squad

Firin’ Squad started out in London’s underground club scene over a decade ago. Today they are one of the UK’s leading DJ outfits and they’re at the forefront of the urban music takeover.

Their club schedule is heavy, and they continue to play the biggest nights all over the UK and overseas – recent international gigs have included Dubai, New York, Russia, Ukraine, MTV Block Parties in Lithuania, and through Summer 2007 they returned to Ayia Napa with their weekly residency, for the fourth year running.

There have been the chart-topping albums – Firin’ Squad have compiled and mixed seven releases to date. These collections of urban music have all proved to be very successful, with the four releases in The Very Best Of Pure R&B series alone having combined sales of over one million CD’s.

Firin’ Squad Unsigned Podcast is a series of monthly audio programmes designed to spotlight the finest unsigned and independent talent on the UK’s urban music scene. The project, which was launched in August 2007, fully embraces the digital music revolution.

The podcasts are free to download from the iTunes Store and with each half hour show the guys roll out a selection of the hottest tracks from various artists and also feature studio guests, with an exclusive live performance and interview. Artists who have appeared in the series so far, have included Roll Deep, beatbox extraordinaire Faith SFX and MOBO 2007 award winners N-Dubz, to name but a few.

The series not only has the support of all the artists on the urban scene, but now also has the highest accolade from the radio industry. In April 2007 the boys won Gold at the prestigious Sony Radio Academy Awards, in a brand new category - Internet Programme Award. [ [http://www.radioawards.org/winners/?category=The_Internet_Programme_Award&year=2007 Sony Radio Academy Award Winners 2007] ]

Since January 2007, the guys have been providing in-flight entertainment for the UK’s second largest airline, BMI. You can catch them in the mix, on the Urban Show on all long haul flights - so if you’re off on your hols, make sure you check it out! [ [http://www.bmivoyager.com/audio/ BMI Voyager Audio Listings] ]

In August 2007, the trio were signed up by Choice FM, the UK’s number one radio station for Hip Hop and R&B. 18 months after having left Kiss 100, where they had held down a weekly show for 7 years, the guys returned to the airwaves. You can now hear them on Saturday afternoons between 3pm and 6pm, presenting a show with the energy that they are famous for, playing a broad mixture of urban music and as always, championing the new sounds. [ [http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storyCode=1032457&sectioncode=1 Music Week - Choice FM announces new schedule ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.firinsquad.co.uk firinsquad.co.uk]
* [http://www.myspace.com/thefirinsquad myspace.com/thefirinsquad]
* [http://www.firinsquadunsigned.com firinsquadunsigned.com]
* [http://www.youtube.com/firinsquad youtube.com/firinsquad]
* [http://www.choicefm.com/firinsquad choicefm.com/firinsquad]