Barry Can’t Swim and Sammy Virji turn an Alexandra Palace B2B into a studio collaboration

Barry Can’t Swim and Sammy Virji have released new single ‘I Could Be Madonna’.

A fun, frothy party-starter, the track is a UK garage homage that brings the two producers together in the studio. They go back a while: the Scottish producer popped up at Virji’s Alexandra Palace show in April, where the pair surprised fans with a back-to-back DJ set.

The single follows a busy summer for Barry Can’t Swim, who walked KidSuper’s SS27 runway in Miami, was named Scotland’s “World Cup Champion” for a Scotland v Brazil match, and hosted a surprise block party in Brooklyn. He also recently released ‘Dance Dance Dance’, a French touch homage that prompted remixes from Cassius and Sebastian Konrad.

‘I Could Be Madonna’ is out now.

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