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At 29 years of age Jon Bailey aka MC Wrec is regarded as one of Britains most exciting young artists and music entrepreneurs. Known as one of the hardest workers on the circuit, this versatile young grafter has shot to fame in recent years after becoming the front man to the multi award winning live act London Elektricity and his work with accliamed eclectic acts The Nextmen, Stanton Warriors and Timo Maas.
The Surrey born vocalist who spent time growing up in Berlin, London, Southampton and Brighton, discovered his love for music at a very young age. Listing Michael Jackson, Cypress Hill, Nirvana, Jay-Z, Alex Reece, LSK and Roots Manuva as influences, he first graced the mic in 1995 at a warehouse party in South Croydon and came up through the traditional ranks of Londons sound-system and pirate radio culture. He earnt his stripes chatting over early breakbeats, jungle, house, garage, hip hop and reggae music, before relocating to Southampton in 1998, where he gained a marketing degree, promoted shows, founded the Distortion Crew and his former hip hop group The Pickpockets and became Addict Clothing's Music PR manager.
It was during this time, Wrec began cutting his teeth working and touring with the likes of DJ Red, Rodney P and DJ First Rate, spreading his wings both nationally and internationally on the mic. From 2003 - Dec 2005 (when the band stopped touring), Wrec fronted the mighty London Elektricity live band, recording two live LP's and DVD's, featuring on the 2005 studio album, rocking shows from Auckland to Istanbul and picking up BBC 1Xtra and Knowledge Magazine awards with the band for 'Best live Act'.
Now Brighton based, Wrec is resident MC to prestigious records labels including Hospital, Critical and Fat City, plus infamous nights including Fabric Live, Heaven, Hospitality and Friends & Family in London plus further residencies in Shanghai, Berlin and Brighton. Now a regular live host and collaborator to top dance acts The Nextmen, Stanton Warriors and the legendary Timo Maas, he's toured across Europe, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Middle East, Brazil, Japan and China - working and touring with the likes of Snoop Dogg, Kanye West, Cypress Hill, Basement Jaxx, Soul II Soul, The Prodigy, Pharoah Monch, Calvin Harris, Cassius, ICE T, Beastie Boys, Black Eyed Peas, The Streets, Scratch Perverts and DJ Yoda to name only a few.
Superb performances at the likes of Glastonbury, Good Vibrations (Australia), Jade Jaggers Jezabel @ Pacha Ibiza, Big Chill, Shepherds Bush Empire, Brixton Academy, Global Gathering, Radio 1 and The Jazz Cafe, have secured his place as one of the world's most versatile and entertaining MCs. Whether he's working with Goldie or High Contrast, Qool DJ Marv or DJ A-Trak, he's sure to rock the show.
With releases on labels including Hospital, Fat City, Temhogen and Mums The Word plus countless mixtape appearances, he featured on London Elektricity 'Power Ballads' LP (2005) and Martin Brews single 'Drop The Beat' (2005). He also released his debut solo track 'The Great British Moan' on Mums The Word Records, proving to be a big hit online with over 70,000 listens on his myspace page, not to mention rotation on Radio 1, 1xtra and Kiss FM.
In addition to the above, he also runs a couple of companies with business partner Marc Shienman. Firstly Mums The Word Management , looking after the Part Time Heroes (Wah Wah), The Nextmen (Universal), Zarif (RCA), Bridgette Amofah (Oi Va Voi), Ray Gelato plus New Zealand's number 1 best-selling dance act Shapehifter (Truetone).
To work alongside the management company Jon and Marc also launched their own label in 2006 Mums The Word Records Ltd. The labels debut release in Oct 2006 was Part Time Heroes 'Realise EP' which gained global critical accailm, support & radio play from the likes of Gilles Peterson, Zane Lowe, Ras Kwame, Patrick Forge, Mr Scruff, Benji B and many more.
Wrec also ran all of Addict Clothings worldwide music press, product placement, endorsements from 2001-2007, and regularly worked with the likes of DJ Cash Money, Fat Freddys Drop, James Zabiela, LSK, Skitz and more. Indeed Jon was recently invited to host the Adicolor Collection press conference for Adidas in Berlin, interviewing style, illustration and design icons including Cey Adams of Def Jam Records, Raymond Choy of Toy2R, Vice Magazine and Italian label Emilio Pucci.
He has also been invited to lecture on the music industry in Bulgaria, Germany, Slovenia, at various UK University's and recently hosted the MTV Media Awards after-party in London and the MTV party at The Cannes Film Festival 2006; plus regually hosting radio shows on KISS FM.
Difficult to pigeonhole, exciting to listen to, and with fingers in several tasty pies... you cant knock his drive or take his eyes off the prize.
'The UK's finest multi genre MC" Jam Music, Sydney Australia
"A rare example of how it possible to find fame in more than one musical genre, MC Wrec has been representing hip hop and drum and bass in equal measures for the last decade, with the list of artists he's appeared alongside reading like a who's who of underground music. This is one Wrec - that does not get nervous" Knowledge Magazine
TIMO MAAS and MC WREC @ Tank, Sydney
LONDON ELEKTRICITY and MC WREC @ Good Vibes, Perth
INFO: jon@mumsthewordmusic.com
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LINE UP: Macka B (uk), Zion Train (uk), Ward 21 & Tifa (jam), Ziggi & Renaissance Band (nl), Million Stylez (swe), La Jam (fr), Big Famili (mq), United Flavour (cz/int), Wassigan (jam), Hypnotix (cz), MC Jamalski (usa), Looptroop (swe), AMO (sk), Moja Rec (sk), H16 (sk) ....
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