ABOUT US

308 are singer/songwriter brothers from South London who have developed their own style of music they call R&P - a mix of RnB and Pop.

 Deore and Shay officially formed 308 in March 2008 and have collaborated with artists such as Kele Le Roc, Sadie Ama , Richie Dan and Darren Martyn.  The collaborations were well received.  ‘Don’t Confess’ with Kele Le Roc was featured as one of the top tracks on a compilation album for Ditto Music.  ‘G.O.D’, an urban gospel track with Richie Dan, was played by Dave P of Choice FM on his ‘Positive Inspiration Show’ and a track called ‘Without You’ was aired by DJ Cameo of BBC 1xtra on his ‘Pirate Sessions’. They also collaborated with NGU Music Group in Germany on a track called ‘808’.

 They have supported Mutya Buena as one of the winners of the BT Broadband Unsigned Talent Competition; opened for multi-platinum selling RnB superstar, Mario in Nottingham; and supported some of the top UK Urban artists such as Attacca Pessante, Chipmunk, Omar, Sway and Tinie Tempah. 

Their debut single, ‘Gots to Go’ was chosen by Ras Kwame of BBC1xtra to feature on his ‘Homegrown Podcast’ which showcases the best in UK urban talent.  Chris Welch (Kerrang) described them as “Very melodic ….. Marvellous stuff..”  Croydon Music wrote, “Gots to Go pleased their female following judging by the screams being heard throughout  the number.”

 They kicked off 2009 with their second single, ‘Sweat’, which was played on Blackbaby Radio (Grammy Award winning producer, Bryan Michael Cox's radio station) in Atlanta, and beat stiff competition to hold the station's coveted 'Song Battle' title (for the hottest new record) for 3 weeks in a row.  The video has had over 180,000 hits on You Tube. 

 As well as supporting other artists they have performed at various clubs such as Ministry of Sound, London;  Talk Talk, Southend;  Liquid, Peterborough; Liquid, Maidstone; Liquid, Portsmouth; and Amadeus in Rochester.They also performed at one of London’s biggest Melas in Barking which was covered by BBC Asia and Croydon Fashion Festival in its main shopping centre.  They were also invited to perform at Croydon’s ‘Pride of Croydon’ concert at Fairfield Halls.

They have appeared on GMTV and sang Sean Kingston’s “Beautiful Girls” acapella to millions of morning viewers.  They have also appeared on Jay Jay TV which is transmitted on the Hotbird Satellite covering a wide range of countries including Germany, Switzerland and Italy.

 As well as TV, they have done numerous radio interviews up and down the UK including Community Radio Stations and BBC local radio including Sue Marchant of BBC Cambridge and CL Smooth of BBC Three Counties Radio.

 2010 started with a ‘bang’ when they were invited to perform live at London’s New Year’s Day Parade.  More than half a million spectators crammed the streets of London to watch the fantastic spectacle that started at The Ritz, Piccadilly Circus and finished at  Parliament Square, Westminster.  They sang their new single ‘Song 4 Love’ for 2010 at least 10 times as the procession made its way along the 2 mile route.  The event was covered by BBC, CNN, Fox News, Sky and CBS and 3 hours of live satellite was beamed around the world.

In June 2010 they started to work with Steve Osborne of Steve Osborne Media/PR and embarked on a radio interview tour to promote their second 2010 single ‘Superhero’.   The ‘Dynamic Duo’ released their third single, ‘All On You’ in November 2010 and performed both singles at the Croydon Christmas Light switch on when they were mobbed by adoring fans afterwards.

In December 2010 they signed a publishing deal with Tabitha Music Ltd and released their Christmas single, ‘Love This Christmas’ which was really well received and had a lot of airplay in both the UK and USA over Christmas and New Year.

They have already started to record tracks for their forthcoming album which they hope to release in Summer 2011 so watch this space!!