BN Crew

The BN Crew (originally The Buttnuggets) are a rap/comedy band started in 1997 in North Dublin.

The groups founding members were Dr. Edgewild, Dr. Leo and the Psychologist Ceb.

Their first album 'Smells like white spirits' (later retitled 'Tippin' the cow') was recorded in the space of 14 hours in Ceb's parents house in Glasnevin, Dublin. This was a 90 minute psychedelic mind melter with influences from hip-hop and punk. The equipment used was primitive cd players, tape decks and an earphone taped to a pen as a microphone.

Although the album was almost entirely instrumental (with the exception of 'Wypin') the Buttnuggets would later become a hip-hop band during the thriving years of the Dublin hip hop scene. Their first album was described by many as being "unlistenable".

Following extremely poor (non existent) sales and continued substance abuse issues by Ceb the Nuggets took a break until the year 2000 when they made a spectacular comeback under the new name 'BN Crew'.

2000 saw the return of the newly reformed BN Crew with what some say is still their greatest track, 'Babykill'. Babykill also introduced one of the new additions to the Crew, Luke. He was part of a massive new posse the BN Crew had amassed who became known as the BN Crew All Stars for some reason.

In the year following Babykill Dr. Leo and the Psychologist Ceb spent much of the time hanging out in the Sushi Recording studios waiting for house parties to start so they could present their new material. A highlight of this era was the debut of "The Rapists" at Iano Mincers house party, this is also the only known time where females actually danced to a BN Crew song.

Following the chick dancing incident productivity dwindled somewhat although the Crew still managed to produce a second album "Where Did It All Go Wrong". This offering was almost all hip-hop with an extremely raw sound. The album featured a host of hidden talent within the crew including Aido, Double B, The Muinteoir, Meanologue, Hambone and Muttonhead. The album is credited as killing most of their music careers.

Sales of this were also extremely poor as Ceb only made 20 copies and literally couldn't give them away, in his own words he used most of them to "fix a wobbly chair".

In early 2006 work began on the follow up album "Clockwork Idiots", Dr. Edgewild and Ceb laid down three tracks in one session, this was followed by more recording sessions finally re-uniting Ceb & Dr. Leo on 'Ballsack Itchin'. Currently the album remains uncompleted with 15 tracks recorded, many of which are just Ceb having the buzz and spitting out old school jibber jabber over self produced beats.

Currently there are 5 recorded yet not uploaded tracks that should finalize "Clockwork Idiots", the later sound is a relatively sample free home grown electronic affair with the same old lyrics thrown over it.

BN Crew are a band who often seem obsolete and forgotten but sporadically churn a track or two out and every decade or so have enough material to splice an album together, this is unlikely to change.