

Grindah pipes up: “They’re actually the kind of people that probably listen to podcasts. Which isn’t surprising when you look at the state of them.” The government have shown once again that they don’t give a shit about music and culture. Lockdown has left Beats “fuming about the lack of nightlife.

“If not, then eventually it’ll become a museum. Now, they are back with six more episodes.ĭoes Grindah miss the old days of Kurupt FM, I ask, as I am de-bagged and ushered into the studio? “I’ve told Steves to leave everything just in case I want to come back and do a set,” he says. Here, the boys take on the pressing issues of the day, such as technology, relationships and the supernatural, while keeping the MCing to a minimum.

“Getting back in the studio was like stepping into a pair of comfy shoes, but like sick ones that never get old – like TNs or 110s,” says Beats. Gladly, 2019 saw them return with the Kurupt FM Podkast. In 2018, Grindah moved to Essex for family reasons and Kurupt shut up shop. Brentford, in south-west London, is famous for many things: Brentford FC, the Fountain leisure centre, that neon Lucozade sign eastbound on the M4, and est London’s biggest, best, most famous chaotic pirate radio station: Kurupt 108.9 FM.īroadcasting from a housing estate somewhere near McDonald’s, Grindah, Beats and DJ Steves (Steve Stamp) have been pumping early 00s UK garage and drum’n’bass into Brentford, Feltham, north-east Hounslow and the edges of White City since 2005.
