The garage collective are the product of BBC mockumentary sitcom People Just Do Nothing, which followed the crew of pirate radio station Kurupt FM and its operation out of a tower block flat in Brentford, West London. Headed up by the overbearing MC Grindah and his naive best friend DJ Beats, the cohort also included DJs Steves and Decoy, and their inept manager ‘Chabuddy G’. People Just Do Nothing won accolades for Best Comedy at both the BAFTAs and Royal Television Awards, and yielded a full-length movie in People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan.

The lead cast, who also created the series, wrote and produced several authentic UK garage tracks for the show, including songs ‘Get out the Way’ and ‘Heart Monitor Riddem’. In 2015, they burst onto the scene as fully-fledged musical performers with their Sixty Minutes Live set on MistaJam’s BBC Radio 1 Xtra broadcast, and started to perform live in clubs and warehouses. Kurupt FM have played international shows and appeared at Reading & Leeds, Boardmasters and Glastonbury Festival, as well as playing a massive headliner at London’s Printworks venue. In 2021, they released their debut album ‘The Greatest Hits (Part 1)’ as a companion to the movie Big In Japan, featuring artists like General Levy and Craig David.

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In May, the group posted a comedy skit, announcing in character that MC Grindah had returned to making music and production had begun on new EP ‘Grindah Decided We’re Doing Music Again’ – or ‘GDWDMA’ for short. After collaborating with drum n bass duo Sigma and others on the track ‘Legendary Status’ in April, Kurupt FM have released two singles due to appear on ‘GDWDMA’, ‘Feelings’ and ‘Tek Time’. Last week, they released new single ‘Reload’, which sees them link up again with Australian DJ Young Franco, who they worked with on ‘Feelings’.

The 2026 UK tour in support of ‘GDWDMA’ was announced this morning on the band’s social media, with a message that read ‘GRINDAHS DECIDED WER DOIN A UK TOUR’. The four-date run across England hits Bristol, Manchester and Birmingham before ending in a big finale at the Roundhouse in London. Tickets for the GDWDMA UK Tour go on pre-sale (with access here) on Wednesday July 29 at 10am, while general sale begins on Friday July 31 – check the full dates on the poster below. Before that, they’re supporting their friend Craig David at New World 2026, taking place at Chelmsford’s Central Park on August 30.

The garage crew’s new tune was first dropped on MistaJam’s show on BBC Radio 1 on 25^th October, by the lead characters of the show and Grindah and Decoy and will be available to buy and stream this Friday 27^th October. Listen to the song here.

This world premiere of the track is anticipating their awaited release of a new, hour long mix-tape named ‘The Lost Tape’, set to be released on November 17th. It is said in the press release that this lost tape has been discovered after “the legendary set that was broadcast live on Kurupt FM 108.9 and was recorded onto cassette tape by an anonymous listener, was lost in a backpack in deepest Brentford”. It has had a refurbishment to bring it up to scratch, being remixed and re-vamped to create the ultimate garage mix-tape.

People Just Do Nothing is a British ‘mockumentary’ series, appearing on BBC Three, following a pirate radio show based in West London under the name of ‘Kurupt FM’, and was first broadcast back in 2014. The show was created by the cast themselves, and follows the lives of garage and drum and bass fanatics from Brentford, trying to get their music heard.

Kurupt FM is made up of MC Grindah (Allan Mustafa), DJ Beats (Hugo Chegwin), DJ Steves (Steve Stamp), Decoy (Daniel Sylvester Wood) and their manager, Chabuddy G (Asim Chaudhry).

The inspiration for the BAFTA award winning show is said to be inspired from the UK Television series ‘The Office’, as it has that loose documentary style of being interviewed, and also following the character’s personal lives, which the boys used to watch when they would all hang out together back in the day. The four main actors were friends for years before they began making the show and were part of an actual real pirate station named Kurupt FM, where they all would dabble in MC’ing and DJ’ing. This is where the idea came from and once they started writing material and creating characters around a ‘fake garage crew’ to make comedy out of the situation they were in, they released YouTube videos portraying their ideas under the name ‘Wasteman TV’, it got noticed by producer Joe Petrie, and thus the TV series was born.

The four main actors minus their manager came together to form the musical act that tours, appears on radio, and now releasing music under a label all in character as ‘Kurupt FM’. After the rise of the genre grime last year and this year, its no surprise Kurupt landed a major recording deal with XL Recordings, home to big names like Adele and Radiohead.

You can watch People Just Do Nothing on BBC Three IPlayer now.

Tickets to see Kurupt FM can be bought here.

Premiered on Mistajam’s BBC Radio 1Xtra show, the track also features the veteran Grime MC Big Narstie. The two hit it off after meeting at Kurupt FM’s #60MinutesLive takeover of 1Xtra, and collabed for Craig David’s first song in years – a classic UK Garage tune with Big Narstie bringing some nostalgic grime bars. You can check the song out below:

Craig David is, of course, a legend in UK Garage, and his return has seen a warm welcome, as Mistajam pointed out before premiering the tune “There’s UK music pre-Craig David and UK music post-Craig David.” Following My Intuition will be his sixth studio album, and first in six years, following 2010’s Signed Sealed Delivered.

Craig David’s return this year has seen him play Bestival and perform his 2000 classic ‘Fill Me In’ with Major Lazer at their London gig last month. He also performed ‘Fill Me In’ over Jack Ü’s ‘Where Are Ü Now’ during Kurupt FM’s #60MinutesLive takeover. You can watch him at #60MinutesLive, including the moment he met Big Narstie, below: