06 Jan 2012

Youngman
Who Knows?

Digital Soundboy/Polydor

WE SAY

Youngman (aka Simon Smith) is picking up serious steam with massive specialist support at Radio 1, Capital and Rinse FM plus playlists at Kiss FM, 1Xtra and a Radio 1 INMWT addition this week. Who Knows?, produced by Skream is also Nick Grimshaw's Record Of The Week on his daytime takeover show following it being Zane Lowe's 'Next Hype', MistaJam's 'Jam Hot' and Annie Mac's 'Special Delivery'. He has been labelled by Radio 1's Annie Mac as the 'future of pop' and his in-progress debut album includes production credits from Skream, Breakage and Sam Frank. Who Knows? follows two previous singles on Shy FX's Digital Soundboy imprint and looks set to break into the mainstream. He's currently on tour with Benga, which will be followed by his debut solo UK tour this Feb, with April set to see Youngman support Example on his UK arena tour.

London Gig: January 20, Fabric EC1



CONTACTS

Management: Jon Bailey & Marc Sheinman, SEG 
Record Label: Digital Soundboy Recordings 
Online: Charlotte Sweeney, Your Army 
Press: Morad Khokar, Universal
Radio: Christian Nockall, Your Army

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