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UKG Rewind with Craig David

Episode 1

Duration: 57 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 2Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 2

The story of Craig David & UK Garage’s rise to chart domination at the turn of the new millennium.

Craig David plays back to back UK Garage classics, rewinding us to the height of UK Garage’s chart domination at the turn of the century. He charts the rise of the UK Garage genre from an underground club scene in the 1990s to a chart dominating pop movement. Plus Craig tells the story of his parallel musical journey, from playing Southampton nightclubs on school nights, to recording ‘Re-Rewind’, performing on Top of the Pops and becoming a fully fledged pop star.

Craig also meets up with veteran Garage producer Sunship to find out how his remixes catapulted the likes of Sweet Female Attitude, Mis-Teeq, Victoria Beckham and Craig David himself.

Episode 1 covers music from Crystal Waters, Shanks and Bigfoot, Roy Davis Jr and of course Artful Dodger.
Craig explains how he got into the Southampton music scene and began recording tracks with Artful Dodger. Plus find out how his chart battle with Cliff Richard went down, and what Craig did on millennium eve! Show less

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