Blackout Crew

The Blackout Crew, aka The Bards of Oldham, are a donk/rap group consisting of six rap artists - Cover, Allison, Heaton, Davis, Kabbani and Chadwick - from Halliwell, Bolton, Greater Manchester.

Their 2009 album peaked at No. 42 in the UK. Their album contained three singles: "Bbbounce", "Put a Donk on It", and "Dialled".

The lines "You know what you wanna do with that, right? You wanna put a bangin' donk on it" was frequently been used in the opening of the BBC Radio 2/BBC Radio 6 Music programme Radcliffe & Maconie, being generally favoured by Mark Radcliffe. Blackout Crew worked with electronic group Metronomy to provide a B-side remix for their 2008 single "A Thing for Me".

In 2023, Jax Jones released a new song Won’t Forget You with D.O.D and Ina Wroldsen, with a new version featuring Kurtis Chadwick aka MC Viper, Jordan Cover, aka MC Cover, and Luke Purcell aka MC Lukey P from the newly reformed Blackout Crew, which as of the 12th of November 2023 sits at number 28 in the UK top 40 singles charts.

Members
Anthony Sabanskis (Producer)
 * Jordan Cover (MC Cover)
 * Kevin Allison (MC Dowie)
 * Kurtis Chadwick (MC Viper)
 * Tony Heaton (MC Raver)
 * Rob Davis (MC Rapid)
 * Zak Kabbani (MC Zak K)
 * Alan Titchmarsh (MC Ground Force)

The Blackout Crew's tracks were produced by Tony Sabanskis.