Uncle Buck is the creation of Alex James and Seb James, two students who met at the Harrow campus of Westminster University and started DJing together in a modest suburban house at the unfashionable end of the Metropolitan Line.
In the absence of a decent campus club-night they set up FONO, an instantly successful indie and electro party where they patented an experimental style of no-holds-barred mixing: throwing in homemade glitches, samples and bootlegs alongside anything from Mr Ozio to Rage Against the Machine. Before it became the norm. Zane Lowe quoted them as "Spearheading the recent serge in Indie/Dance and Crossover"
Soon Uncle Buck found themselves playing support slots for Radio 1's Zane Lowe, who invited them along for the 2006 Home Taping Tour with (amongst others) Simian Mobile Disco, The Futureheads, Sway, The Nextmen and Klaxons. After becoming a permanent fixture to the tour, that year they also played the summer season in Ibiza as part of the Ibiza Rocks campaign, and, for about a week before the Arctic Monkeys arrived, became the youngest DJs ever to play at Manumission. Since then they returned several times to the White Isle to play at Pete Tongs Friday at Pacha and Judge Jules legendary night Judgement Sundays.
In the last few months they have played under or been billed beside, Justice, 2ManyDJs, Mylo, The Scratch Perverts, The Filthy Dukes, Mark Ronson, Kavinsky, SebastiAn, DJ Medhi and slots at the Snowbombing Festival in Austria alongside Digitalism, James Lavelle, Annie Mac and Uffie. They also created a dance-fuelled frenzy at 2007's Glastonbury, with Erol Alkan, Kissy Sell Out and Caged Baby in the East Dance Tent, they hosted the Strongbow arena at Global Gathering and supported Ferry Corsten and Shapeshifters at Wakestock and made regular appearances at London's famous Together @ Turnmills party.
