POD Presents Mr.Scruff 29-01-10

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Everyone?s favourite DJ and tea merchant MR SCRUFF is back in Dublin
on Friday 29th January 2010.



The Mancunian wonder keeps it unreal with one of his famous 5 hour
sets in Tripod?s main room, serving up a melting pot of jazz, soul,
hip hop, funk, disco, deep house, reggae, dubstep, afrobeat, latin,
and plenty of goodies that don?t fit into any category.



POD presents

MR SCRUFF

Keep It Unreal - 5 hour set





Friday January 29th

Tripod - Harcourt St - Dublin 2.

Doors - 10pm



Tickets €20 (inc. booking fee) available from Ticketmaster, City
Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets. www.ticketmaster.ie
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www.mrscruff.com

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Biog

A lot of things have happened since a young Andy Carthy started
answering to the name Mr Scruff - making a name for himself under the
shadow of Manchester's mid 90s club scene. Not only has he released
three critically acclaimed albums, selling over half a million records
worldwide, with countless tours and club events he has cemented his
now legendary DJ status. This is a DJ that can sell out the 1600
capacity London KoKo armed only with his records, some turntables and
a few spare packets of teabags.

More than that, Scruff has established himself as a general guarantor
of quirkiness and quality so that when his range of speciality teas
were launched they became the 5th best selling grocery product in the
long and illustrious history of Selfridge?s Food Hall (see
www.makeusabrew.com for more tea shenanigans). His ?CUP? tea shop in
Manchester packs in the punters and the now legendary travelling tea
stall is a firm favourite at Scruff gigs & festivals all over the UK.
Meanwhile, his wobbly potato people adorn t-shirts, brollies and even
people?s bodies.

Scruff's first 12", "Hocus Pocus" was released on the small
Manchester-based label, Robs Records. Subsequent singles and his first
album, Mr. Scruff followed, released on Robs Records subsidiary,
Pleasure Records. After a brief spell working with Mark Rae, he moved
to the larger Ninja Tune label, and subsequently released the albums
Keep It Unreal and Trouser Jazz.

His most notable hit, "Get a Move On", is built around "Bird's Lament
(In Memory of Charlie Parker)" by Moondog, and has been used in
several commercials ranging from Lincoln and Volvo automobiles to
France Télécom and GEICO insurance. The song also samples Shifty
Henry's "Hyping Woman Blues" and led to a renewal of interest in
Henry's compositions.

In 2004, Mr Scruff released Keep It Solid Steel Volume 1, the first of
what is intended to be a series of several DJ-mixed compilation CDs
for Ninja Tune's Solid Steel series of artist mixes. These mixes are
designed to recreate the eclectic genres one would expect to hear at a
Mr. Scruff club night. In November 2006, Ninja Tune confirmed that the
8th Solid Steel record would be mixed by J Rocc and the 9th would be
Volume 2 from Mr. Scruff. Other Solid Steel mixes have been released
by fellow Ninja Tune artists including The Herbaliser, Hexstatic, DJ
Food and Amon Tobin.

Scruff has a wide array of remixes to his name, and has also produced
tracks for others ? notably "Echo of Quiet and Green" for
sometime-collaborator Niko for her 2004 album Life on Earth. Niko
returned the favour, appearing on the track "Come Alive" from the
Trouser Jazz album. Having performed regularly at The Big Chill
Festival in Eastnor Castle deer park, Ledbury, Herefordshire, Scruff
was asked in 2006 to select the tracks for the compilation album, Big
Chill Classics. July 2008 saw the release of Southport Weekender
Volume 7, a double album released in the Southport Weekender series,
recorded in a purpose-built holiday village in Southport, Merseyside.
The first disc was mixed by German nu jazz DJs Jazzanova, and the
second was mixed by Mr. Scruff. Scruff's contribution is a mix of soul
music.

In 2008, a new independent record label, Ninja Tuna, was founded, a
collaboration between Scruff and the Ninja Tune label. Mr. Scruff's
most recent singles and the album Ninja Tuna were all released on the
new label. A US-only release of the album on mp3 came with 10
additional tracks from the Ninja Tuna recording sessions, under the
title Bonus Bait. A CD version of this supplementary album was
released in the UK in February 2009.

Mr. Scruff's album and single cover art, music videos, merchandise and
his official website are noted for their whimsical cartoonish look;
the cartoons are drawn by Scruff himself, in what he calls "potato
style". The images and animations are also projected onto large
screens during his gigs. Scruff also drew cartoons for music magazines
such as Jockey Slut in the 1990s.

bildo

oh yay! This is a week after my birthday! Excellent. Look forward the tea tent