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THE GREAT
BRITISH
MOAN
BRITISH PEOPLE ARE RENOWNED EVERY-
WHERE FOR THEIR LOVE OF A GOOD MOAN.
IF IT’S ‘THE YOUTH OF TODAY’ OR EVEN
THE WEATHER, THERE’S NOTHING WE LIKE
MORE THAN THE CHANCE TO TAKE OUT OUR
FRUSTRATIONS WITH THE WORLD BUT FOR
MC WREC (AKA JON), THINGS COULDN’T BE
ROSIER RIGHT NOW.
He is the impresario of his own management following various collaborations with the likes songwriters Zarif and Bridgette Amofah, not to
company - boasting the likes of The Nextmen of London Elektricity and Rodney P. Two years mention MC Rage’s new indie/rock band Inner
and The Part Time Heroes on its books, plays on and those plans have been shelved as his City Dwellers.
out every week with some of the biggest names management career takes shape.
in music and even has time for his own recording “They’re going to be fucking massive,” he en-
career. What comes as a surprise is that Wrec’s “Originally I had it in my mind that I was going to thuses. “In A&R terms they’re Rage Against the
latest offering is entitled ‘The Great British do an album but since then my whole business Machine with a British twist. I started managing
Moan’, a track that pays tribute to the 27-year- has really taken off so I’ve been left with no time the Part Time Heroes a couple of years ago then
old’s tendency to see the glass half-empty. to get in the studio,” he admits. “Making an album I met up with Marc, who used to work at Sony
is a long process and you have to be really com- but wanted to do his own thing. It’s a nice little
“Anyone who knows me will tell you that I’m a mitted to do it properly and be totally focussed family now because we’ve got five amazing acts
moaner,” he tells Kmag. “I just wanted to do a on it. But I get my kicks from managing other to work with and we couldn’t handle any more to
track that is really British and reflects my person- people’s careers now so that’s taken a back seat. be honest.”
ality. At the time it was done, everyone as going It’s an uphill struggle to make it and break it as
on about shooting this person and that person an MC and I love doing it but you have to think With so much going on, it’s perhaps no surprise
and trying to be hard, but I’m just a skinny white about the future. I don’t want to be 55 and still that his plans for an album have been shelved:
fucker from east Surrey so there was nothing on the microphone and I’ve always run my own “I’ve got a few drum & bass tracks lined up and
in it for me. I wanted to make a grimy track that little companies and over the past year and a I’ve recorded a few other tracks that I’ve made
doesn’t take itself too seriously but it’s all done half things have really taken off.” but it’s not been top of my list recently. If you
tongue-in-cheek anyway.” look to see who’s really made it as an MC in
Since linking up with business partner Marc the UK then there’s only three people who have
When we last spoke, Jon (who spent time in Sheinman in 2005, Wrec’s company Mum’s gone massive: Mike Skinner, Dizzee Rascal and
Berlin, Southampton and across the pond in The Word Management has acquired some real Roots Manuva. There’s no pension plan in being
New England during his formative years) was in status within the broader music scene, with a an MC and I’ve always admired the management
the midst of planning for his debut solo album roster that also includes artists such as singer/ side of things. I’m still making albums but it’s just
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