UKG Pioneer Shy Cookie Celebrates Ten Years of The House & Garage Orchestra

Shy Cookie swung by to share insights on his The House & Garage Orchestra project amid its ten-year anniversary. The UK garage scene is thriving worldwide right now, but one artist who’s been there from the beginning is Shy Cookie. The London-based veteran has been shaping the genre for over three decades. In recent years, he’s been reinventing UKG live through his The House & Garage Orchestra project, amplifying the energy of UKG with a 15-piece orchestra and live vocalists and MCs. In celebration of the project’s ten-year anniversary, Shy Cookie announced a supporting headlining tour slated to touch-down in eight UK cities between February and May 2027. On September 4, he also released the project’s first original studio orchestral mix: “Take Care” with American R&B singer Syleena Johnson, a transatlantic collaboration seamlessly blending the rich soulfulness of R&B with the magnetic energy of UKG. ‘Take Care’ marks a return to the original vision for The House & Garage Orchestra: combining live musicians with my own studio production to create original music that captures the uplifting spirit, soul and energy of the genre… It honors the roots of UK Garage whi...