About this Event

Circles and Broken Minds present BAD COMPANY UK. Past, present and future dnb! We are proud to welcome BAD COMPANY UK to Birmingham for the first time in years and give Birmingham a leg of their worldwide tour. Having reunited and launched with huge sellout shows in London, Bristol, New York, Las Vegas, Tokyo and all the massive festivals across the world, this is your chance to see them up close and personal in the intimate Hare and Hounds Space. Bad company are without doubt leaders and pioneers of dnb, launching huge singles, albums, and the careers of DJ Fresh, D:Bridge, Vegas and Maldini.



The group is known in the drum and bass industry for their 12' single, 'The Nine' / 'The Bridge' (BCR001). Bad Company went on to produce three albums and various singles which were acclaimed with similar success, most notably 'Book Of The Bad' (2000), a compilation album of their three Book Of The Bad vinyl EPs, featuring 'Miami Flashback', 'Planet Dust' (originally released on Prototype Recordings) and 'Mind Games'.



The name Bad Company has been in disuse since about 2005, but the artists still work in the scene. Fresh had left Bad Company to pursue several solo projects under different record labels, such as Breakbeat Kaos, Ram Records, V Recordings, and Valve. D-Bridge kept producing alone as well, and started his own record label. Maldini continued to cooperate with Vegas, recording under the name 'Bad Company UK', a change which was needed because of a legal battle with the band formed in the 1970s with the same name. Their main label is Bad Taste Recordings. In 2010 the two producers formed the trio Blokhe4d along with Swiss producer Uman. Maldini and Vegas also created the Unique Artists record label, with the participation of a variety of producers from the scene.

The group had a fan forum on their website, which later became Dogs On Acid.[citation needed] In 2008, readers of Knowledge Magazine voted 'The Nine' as the number 1 drum and bass track of all time.[5] On 8 February 2016, UKF officially announced that the group was reuniting along with the new material being released that month. They released the single Equilibrium on 25 February 2016. In September 2016, they released a remix of The Prodigy's The Day Is My Enemy which was also uploaded onto UKF's YouTube page. The remix was nominated for the Drum & Bass Arena Awards in the category Best Remix.[6] The single Nomad followed in November.



Support from DJ Reaction, DJ X and PHASE 2