Wideboys
Platinum selling producers The Wideboys are Eddie Craig and Jim Sullivan and have been working together since 1996.
Eddie (pictured left) as well as engineering in the studio, songwriting and DJ'ing is a 2nd degree blackbelt martial artist with ZDL martial arts academy and is registered with the british martial arts association . Eddie ran a record shop called VIP Vinyl in Chichester (this is how Wideboys met) and has been DJ' ing for 14 years.
Jim (pictured right) has been running a full time professional recording studio since 1993 and is responsible for chart successes such as 'Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Power of Love' Revamp reaching No.6 and the follow up 'Two Tribes' which hit the number 15 slot along with a stream of remixes including N-Trance - Set You Free (got to No.4 in the nationals), Kyle Minogue, Geri Halliwell, Mario Piccotto, Utah Saints to name but a few. Jim has also recorded under different guises such as Kontakt, Vinylgroover & The Red Hed & Pier Francesco.
Currently the Wideboys are managed by Matt Waterhouse from MWR / Hyperactive and in 2007 have been working on big projects with DEF JAM USA for Rhianna's album and have signed a big single deal with AATW for the track " Bomb the Secret" .The boys have also mixed the album Maximum Bass 2007 for MINISTRY OF SOUND which was the highest new entry in the charts and went straight into the top 5 position.The boys have been working hard on a string of new remixes and projects for major labels. The Wideboys believe pigeon holes are for pigeons and have written tracks in almost every genre from house , garage electro , 4x4 , 2 step ,rock , hardcore , hiphop, drum & bass, ambient ,breaks and have written between them over 4000 tracks under various guises..
The Wideboys won Best Newcomer at the 2000 U.K. Garage awards beating stiff competition and pipping Wookie and Heartless Crew to the post and were presented the award by Mel B (scary spice) and Spoony.
The Wideboys reached the Top5 Charts and UK double platinum status with there original track and album entitled "Thinking it Over" which launched Liberty X's career and went on to sell over 1,000,000 copies and is still selling world wide .The boys performed on Top of the Pops and appeared on countless other shows including the Big Breakfast , T4 , Liquid News and Pop world with there Club smash "Sambuca" which reached no.15 in the charts. They also appeared at No.1 in the Uk top 40 charts on the bside of Allsaints-Black Coffee and Liberty X's-Just a little as well as numerous other top 20 chart toppers including tracks and remixes for Sony Japan in Japanese!!!!
The Wideboys have djed across the world and on radio stations such as BBC Radio 1 including holding international residencies for Garage heaven / Garage nation at venues such as Eden Ibiza .They have played almost every major club in the Uk including Ministry of Sound, Niche, Zanzibar, GateCrasher ,Bagleys, Ez's 4by4, Amadeus,Escape Swansea, TIme & Envy, Ikon Diva's, etc and regularly play at festivals and clubs abroad including highlights at the Zurich Street Parade Switzerland 1,000,000 people plus and this year the Stopplemarkt festival Germany 750,000 people.Currently they hold residencies at The MudClub , Bognor Regis - Vibe, Sheffield - Naughty but Niche-various, also this Summer catch them in AiyaNapa/ Malia and various holiday destinations!
Still in the studio everyday of the week the boys constantly strife for fresh and interesting takes on the music business and they do it because they love what they do!!!! The Wideboys "Doing it for the Love" www.garagejams.co.uk
Collaborations Wideboys appears on...
- Wideboys & Clare Evers (1 tracks)
- Wideboys & Kenny Thomas (3 tracks)
- Wideboys and Rusty (19 tracks)
- Wideboys and Vula (18 tracks)
- MJ Cole Vs Wideboys feat Vula (7 tracks)
- Wideboys & Lady Raggafire Feat. MC JLC (1 tracks)
- Wideboys & MC JLC (1 tracks)
- Wideboys & Sarah Saville (11 tracks)
- Wideboys & Erol Reid (9 tracks)
- Wideboys feat Lady Ragga Fire (1 tracks)
- Wideboys and JLC (8 tracks)
- Wideboys and Erol Reid and Dennis G (4 tracks)
- Wideboys & Dennis G (8 tracks)