Published in Sunday People, New Sunday Times
19 July 2009
A cut above
Surecut Kids is a two-piece deejay act that hails from the Gold Coast in Australia. They recently rocked the house when they performed for the first time in Malaysia at Laundry Bar.
Comprising Boozy B (Benjamin Honey) and Junior Kid (Mike Perry), the act uses four turntables and a MPC (a type of drum machine) to layer songs, scratch and create live remixes at the fly.
What sets them apart from other acts is that they play different genres – from party hip-hop, funk, reggae, rock, nu-breaks, R&B, and swing to the odd 80s hits.
The two are not afraid to make fun of themselves, and would often don gorilla suits and draw fake moustaches on their face to hype the party up. It’s pretty cool, check their MySpace out.
They met in high school when they were in the same surfing class.
“We weren’t really good friends in school. I didn’t used to like Benjamin at first,” says Perry with a grin.
“But after school, we became really good friends,” adds Honey. “We got ourselves some turntables and started throwing parties for our friends on weekends. And before we knew it, we were playing club gigs and for big festivals.”
At the beginning, the duo also used to rock the mics with rhymes, thus coming up with the initial group name, ShureCut Kids.
“Well, we basically came up with the name because we were cutting two records together and used to make rhymes on our Shure microphones. Both of them add up, and you get Surecut Kids,” says Honey.
Oh, and they dropped the ‘h’ and added the Kids to make it sound cooler.
Surecut Kids has performed with international artistes including M.I.A, Justice, Chemical Brothers, Donovan Frankenrieter and Vanilla Ice. Yes, Vanilla Ice.
“Oh yeah. That was weird. We were initially pretty excited about it, as we expected some cool retro music. But Vanilla Ice has become some serious hardcore metal band now,” says Perry.
“We were watching from backstage and Ice was screaming into the microphone backed by some crazy-loud drums and guitars. It was deafening,” recalls Honey.
The two will play anywhere. “It doesn’t really matter for us, as long as the crowd is awesome and jives along to our music.”
Surecut Kids is cutting its own tracks in addition to spinning popular hits. “We hope to put out a record soon enough. We just want to become bigger and badder at what we do.”
19 July 2009
A cut above
Surecut Kids is a two-piece deejay act that hails from the Gold Coast in Australia. They recently rocked the house when they performed for the first time in Malaysia at Laundry Bar.
Comprising Boozy B (Benjamin Honey) and Junior Kid (Mike Perry), the act uses four turntables and a MPC (a type of drum machine) to layer songs, scratch and create live remixes at the fly.
What sets them apart from other acts is that they play different genres – from party hip-hop, funk, reggae, rock, nu-breaks, R&B, and swing to the odd 80s hits.
The two are not afraid to make fun of themselves, and would often don gorilla suits and draw fake moustaches on their face to hype the party up. It’s pretty cool, check their MySpace out.
They met in high school when they were in the same surfing class.
“We weren’t really good friends in school. I didn’t used to like Benjamin at first,” says Perry with a grin.
“But after school, we became really good friends,” adds Honey. “We got ourselves some turntables and started throwing parties for our friends on weekends. And before we knew it, we were playing club gigs and for big festivals.”
At the beginning, the duo also used to rock the mics with rhymes, thus coming up with the initial group name, ShureCut Kids.
“Well, we basically came up with the name because we were cutting two records together and used to make rhymes on our Shure microphones. Both of them add up, and you get Surecut Kids,” says Honey.
Oh, and they dropped the ‘h’ and added the Kids to make it sound cooler.
Surecut Kids has performed with international artistes including M.I.A, Justice, Chemical Brothers, Donovan Frankenrieter and Vanilla Ice. Yes, Vanilla Ice.
“Oh yeah. That was weird. We were initially pretty excited about it, as we expected some cool retro music. But Vanilla Ice has become some serious hardcore metal band now,” says Perry.
“We were watching from backstage and Ice was screaming into the microphone backed by some crazy-loud drums and guitars. It was deafening,” recalls Honey.
The two will play anywhere. “It doesn’t really matter for us, as long as the crowd is awesome and jives along to our music.”
Surecut Kids is cutting its own tracks in addition to spinning popular hits. “We hope to put out a record soon enough. We just want to become bigger and badder at what we do.”
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