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OVERVIEW Messiah J & The Expert are an mc/producer tag team from Ireland. They were born three days apart in February 1981 in two hospitals to four parents in one Dublin. Both were heavily interested in music from an early age and they spent their childhood and teenage years collecting football stickers, records and heroes. They met at a Scratch Perverts instore in late 1999 and started to hang out. Influenced by the early nineties golden era of Hip Hop, they saw in each other a similar understanding and ethic and went about writing songs. After three or four years learning their trade in a three piece group called Creative Controle, with whom they released two Eps (Bloodrush and Check The Vision), they formed Messiah J & The Expert. They released their debut album, 'What's Confusing You?' in 2003 on Volta sounds which was received very warmly and sold out of its first pressing. They were happy and played many, many gigs and had much, much fun. The influence list grew too. When MJEX finished touring and promoting album number one, they drew breath and went about trying to become better songwriters. Messiah J moved house. Now living a stonesthrow from each other, lots of writing was done. They assembled a series of demos which resulted in a Lamacq session on the BBC in May 2005. They reeled in G Bone on guitar and The Twiddler on bass and became pretty damn tight live. 2006 saw the birth of Inaudible Records, a record label set up by MJEX and their manager, General Knowledge. The first release is a limited edition 12" single 'When The Bull Gores The Matador' (feat C Rayz Walz of Def Jux). 2003 - Release of 'First Place' single - Release of 'What's Confusing You?' album - Messiah J & The Expert were nominated for the Best Dance Act at the 2003 Meteor Music Awards 2004 - Messiah J & The Expert win the Best Dance Act award in the 2004 Hot Press Reader's Poll 2006 - Release of 'When The Bull Gores The Matador' single [31 March] - Release of 'Something Out Of Nothing' [29 September] - Release of 'Now This I Have To Hear' album 2007 - 'Now This I Have To Hear' is nominated for the Choice Music Award [10 January] - Release of '... And Another Thing' album [09 February] - Release of 'Place Your Bets' single [16 February] - Release of 'All The Other Girls' single [01 June] - Release of 'Superfamous Supertune' single to members of the MJEX Mailing List [26 October] 2008 - Release of 'From The Word Go' album [17 October] 2009 - 'From The Word Go' is nominated for the Choice Music Prize [January] - Release of 'Turn The Magic On' single [21 February] - Release of 'Amnesia Comes Easily / Geography' double A-Side single [17 July] - Release of 'Acting The Maggot' single. This was an exclusive issue of 200 which was released through the Richter Collective Singles Club @ The Twisted Pepper [27 November]