The Shady 80s

The story of a choir boy, a refugee, a geek, a rude boy and a painfully ginger Prestonian. The Shady 80s first formed as a four piece in 2014 through mutual friends and, despite a palette of influences wider than Biggie's bed, a mutual respect for all things hip-hop. They started meeting up in peoples living rooms to farm their knowledge and realise how they could work together, but quickly upgraded to begging venues around Fallowfield to lend a stage after hours to decide what they were capable of. It was a lot apparently... but there was still something missing. It wasn’t long, however, before the need for more was filled by Zlatan Pasalic, pushing the musical boundaries to well beyond the horizon. Enter their debut EP Merchants of Menace and a sell-out EP launch. They have since fashioned their own Shady 80s sized hole in the fast-evolving live Hip-Hop scene in Manchester and can be found busting a gut on stage, bringing audiences to a sweat with their fast paced, groovy goodness. The Shady 80s are a band who, along with a great sense of humour and a penchant for all things ‘muso’, prioritise entertainment above all else. They will make you dance, and if you don’t dance, they will make you smile. Regardless, you will be shouting "Shady 80s Baby!" Blending sweet tones and rhythms, subverting genres and blowing open pigeon holes, that is the manifesto of The Shady 80s. Their campaign is picking up many followers and garnering much favour from the gods of Hip-Hop. Blessed be the ones who head bop!