Brimham Rocks comprises of producer/dj 42 Blues, rhymer/beatmaker Sam Hep and rhymer/multi-instrumentalist Page Pullout. All three grew up in and around Halifax, West Yorkshire. Hep and Blues had known each other since their mid-teens, when they tore up spots such as the Multi, North Bridge and the Library as part of the Fax Massive/SHC. They had often seen a young Page Pullout around town, bonged out of his tiny mind, but only really got to know him around 99/2000. Rumour has it that Page was initially so intimidated by Sam Hep's uniqe intelligence and charizma, that he had to part company with marijuana as it was putting him on massive 'noia.
After releasing a couple of rugged mixtapes around 2001/2002 under the alias Detriment, 42 Blues got himself an MPC and a less generic rap name. Having already recorded some terrible, terrible music with Blues, Sam Hep decided to get himself a hype man to make himself look less shit. He convinced Page, already an accomplished musician, to throw away all his talent and start rhyming by showing him how many girls Slug from Atmosphere got to lie down with just by rapping emotionally. Now living in Leeds, the three of them began working on rough tracks under the name Procrastinators and played a handful of shows around Leeds, Halifax and Bradford.
Around this time they also recorded a track with Young Max of the Dirty Diggers. Back then Max was eager to learn and so, out of the goodness of their hearts, Page and Sam Hep schooled him in both writing and delivery. Young Max then used this priceless knowledge to secure Dirty Diggers a record contract. However, Max had recycled most of his (not to mention Brimham's) lyrics and used them on The Diggers top 10 smash For The Haters. To ensure that this dirty secret never came out, the Dirty Digger paid all the song's royalties and most of his six figure Zebra Traffic advance to Brimham Rocks. The track remains unheard to this day.
Sick and tired of various promoters inability to spell 'Procrastinators', they decided to change their name to something even more confusing and harder to spell, Brimham Rocks. Under this name they collaborated with Bradford's finest and the UK's best kept secret Gimp-Roc aka Dr Crobe, and produced the songs available for you to DOWNLOAD FOR FREE on this website. Having been a frequent fixture at Halifax's Depth Cuts and Bradford's Breadbins, the trio are currently on an unofficial hiatus. Sam Hep is concentrating on solo projects and further collaborations with Young Max. 42 Blues finds it increasingly hard to make time to produce music since he became an A&R at DefJam UK. Meanwhile Page Pullout has channelled his energies into the neo-folk combo Fourteen Corners, as this has been a far more successful route to getting young girls to love him.
They last recorded together around 12 months ago creating a track that was arguably 42 Blues and Page Pullout's finest moment. However, Sam Hep thought he sounded rubbish on it, and cried like a little child throwing a tantrum in a supermarket until 42 Blues promised never to play it to anyone. The three remain close friends and may yet produce more music together in the future. In the meantime, enjoy the tunes here. If you are nice to us, we might make some more.
