So Solid Crew Archives

Features

Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Megaman, So Solid Crew

1: What total number of seconds do you get if you add up the number of times So Solid Crew say '21 Seconds' in...

Gary Ryan - 23rd April 2020

Features

‘Top Boy’ star Ashley Walters: “I want to be a walking inspiration”

From So Solid Crew chart-topper to acclaimed leading man – how one lad from Peckham became a creative force

Amon Warmann - 19th March 2020

Features

Daniel Kaluuya: “My life’s mad, I can’t even process it”

The 'Queen & Slim' star on coping with fame, his love of So Solid Crew and forcing Hollywood to check its privilege

Paul Bradshaw - 6th February 2020

Features

Top Boy’s Ashley Walters revives rap career under So Solid Crew name Asher D: ‘I still have something to give’

These days Ashley Walters is best known as the star of Drake's fave TV show Top Boy, but this wasn't his first claim to...

Kyann-Sian Williams - 7th January 2020

Blogs

25 essential UK garage anthems

24 Hour Experience, ‘Together’ When? 1994 Who? Originally consisting of Grant Nelson and Simon Firmin, garage and house collective 24 Hour Experience’s name is something...

Fred Garratt-Stanley - 16th September 2019

Music News

Police issue new appeal for man wanted over So Solid Crew gig murder 13 years ago

Marcus Hall, 18, was stabbed outside one of the garage collective's shows in 2001 in Luton

Leonie Cooper - 25th June 2014

Music News

So Solid Crew’s Romeo re-records ’21 Seconds’ for car insurance firm

MC defends new rendition of the garage classic as "raising awareness with young boy racers about how important and easy it is to get insured"

Al Horner - 20th September 2013

Lovebox Festival

MC Harvey launches foul-mouthed Twitter rant after So Solid Crew are dropped from Lovebox

The UK garage collective were reportedly axed from the festival at another artist's request

Nick Levine - 18th July 2013

Live Reviews

So Solid Crew

So Solid Crew, you might say, got a bad rap. Bursting out of Battersea, south London, in 2001 with a host of brilliantly raw...

Lucy Jones - 8th April 2013

Music News

So Solid Crew announce long-awaited return with London live date

'21 Seconds' act last released music in 2006

David Renshaw - 14th January 2013

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