Tonight's the night.
Groove Diggerz, 'Money For Good Times' Album Launch

Reading, Warwick Arms, Exclusive Album Launch night, w/ Live performances and DJ sets from -
Rob Savage, Lindy Layton, Princess Jewels, Ronnie Black.
£Free!
You can rock up tonight or phone the Warwick Arms in advance on 01189 574281 to take advantage of the Curry and 'Money For Good Times' album deal for just £10.
We cannot wait, come down for a boogie!!

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Rob, tell me about the members of Groove Diggerz?

Well there's me on the Music and Production side of things, with a bit of help from Reuben Pearce, but he had a baby a while back and with another one on the way he's stepped out of the game for a while, but I'm sure he'll be back sooner or later. Then there's Ronnie Black, one of my oldest friends and soon to be best man at my wedding!!!  He sometimes runs the mic at DJ gigs and stuff, he's done a few other bits and bobs as well including recording with the Dub Pistols.

Then there's Princess Jewels (My favourite singer in the world...) She has her own band 'Jewels and the Jaccuzzis’ which is a ska, reggae, rock style band who currently have a residency at the Pitcher and Piano in Reading, they're doing really well.

Newest recruit AKA-Fella (Jay Duggan) used to be a garage MC in and around London, we met on New Years Eve and haven't stopped writing since!!!

Then there's a lot of guest singers I'm working with like Lindy Layton (Beats International), Sophie Barker (Zero 7) and MC Manic (Freefall Collective)
 

How did you meet Lindy Layton?

I had a management deal with Cut La Roc and he put us in touch, I'm so pleased to have had the chance to work with her, she's a star, and very lovely with it!
 

Having five singers including yourself on the album give you a great spektrum of sound. Did you have trouble getting it all to work together?

That was the beauty with this album, we normally work with one singer at a time so say Ronnie would come to the studio and do this little bit, then Jewels the next day, then Jay etc etc, then I will chop it all up and make it work at the right time in the right place.

Any unusual sound or intruments used in the recording of any particular track?

Not really unusual, lots of live guitar, live bass and drum tracks, the rhodes (which is my favourite instrument just incase you hadn't noticed!!!) loads of strings, then the rest programmed really, 

Are you going to make a music video?

It would be nice to see Lindy in the flesh again. That's the plan. We're currently looking for someone to work with us on all the tracks as it's great to have videos these days with things like youtube and facebook, it really gives your tunes an edge I think.

What’s next on the agenda of Groove Diggerz and Breakin Even?

Groove Diggerz are gonna have a bit of time out on the production side of things, maybe do a few remixes and DJ gigs, but for Breakin Even it's Go Go Go, we've just split the label into 3, so lots of different stuff coming your way soon.

I see there are some new offshoot labels have cropped up. Tell me about them.

The 1st is the original Breakin Even Records which is now called B.E.Breaks, which will carry on where Breakin Even Records left off, so it will release pure dancefloor music, mainly Breakbeat, Electro, Techno. Then there's the new label B.E.Deep which is already on its 4th release and features artists like GrandSon and Vital Substance, this label will release anything so long as it's deep, so anything ranging from downtempo chill out to deep house to deep drum and bass, anything that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand to attention.

Describe your musical style?

It ranges through a massive spectrum of different styles to be honest, we try and make each track different so we don't get pigeon holed into just one genre, we have so many influences in the 'Diggerz' and I think that rubs off on the tracks