Ill Behaviour (2010)
"Ill Behaviour" is the Danny Byrd single, voiced by I-Kay, that reached No. 36 on the UK Singles Chart as the second single from his second studio album Rave Digger, after BBC Radio 1 promoted it to the station's A-list.
- UK Singles peak No. 36
- UK Dance peak No. 7
- Radio 1 A-list from 8 September 2010
"Ill Behaviour" is a drum and bass single by Danny Byrd, the English DJ and record producer from Bath (born 4 May 1979) who has released through Hospital Records since 1999.
The track carries a featured vocal by I-Kay, arrived as the second single from the album Rave Digger, and peaked at No. 36 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 7 on the UK Dance Chart, according to the Wikipedia articles on Ill Behaviour and Danny Byrd (checked 2 September 2026). This page follows the single end to end: the voice on it, the release dates, the radio campaign and its place on the album.
Who sings on Ill Behaviour, and where the words come from
The singer on Ill Behaviour is I-Kay, a singer-songwriter from Bristol who has worked on several Danny Byrd releases, according to the Wikipedia article on Ill Behaviour. The same article records that the song's lyrics are based on "One For The Trouble" by A.D.O.R. That lineage is stated here as a fact and nothing more: this reference reproduces no line from either song, because it quotes no lyrics from any recording.
A featured voice over a Byrd production was already a proven shape by 2010. "Red Mist" (feat. IK) reached No. 147 on the UK Singles Chart in 2009, and "Red Mist VIP" reached No. 1 on the UK Dance Chart in the week ending 25 July 2009, then travelled onto Hospital's compilation Sick Music, into the film Dead Man Running and into the games Midnight Club LA and DJ Hero. Ill Behaviour repeated that shape with a new vocalist and carried it 111 places higher up the Singles Chart than Red Mist had managed.
When Ill Behaviour was released and how it charted
Ill Behaviour was released on 26 September 2010 as a digital download and on 27 September 2010 as a 12 inch single, per the Wikipedia article on Ill Behaviour. Its chart record sits in 5 dated facts:
| Ill Behaviour fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Digital release | 26 September 2010 |
| 12 inch release | 27 September 2010 |
| UK Singles Chart peak | No. 36 |
| UK Dance Chart peak | No. 7 |
| BBC Radio 1 A-list promotion | 8 September 2010 |
No. 36 stands as the strongest UK Singles placing of Byrd's Rave Digger period. "Sweet Harmony", his remake of the Liquid track, had reached No. 64 on 7 February 2010 as his first Singles Chart entry, "We Can Have It All" reached No. 144 in 2010, and "Tonight" (feat. Netsky) reached No. 91 in 2011. On the UK Dance Chart, Ill Behaviour's No. 7 sat between Sweet Harmony's No. 6 and Tonight's No. 11.
How BBC Radio 1 carried Ill Behaviour up the playlist
BBC Radio 1 promoted Ill Behaviour to the station's A-list on 8 September 2010, a full 18 days before the digital release, with support from 3 named presenters: MistaJam, Annie Mac and Sara Cox, according to the Wikipedia article on Ill Behaviour. Daytime national radio is a rare position for a drum and bass single, and the A-list placement is the operative reason a Hospital Records 12 inch crossed into the top 40 of the main Singles Chart.
Radio 1 backing was not new in Byrd's story, only new at this scale. In 2000, the station's drum and bass specialist Fabio championed Byrd's remix of London Elektricity's "Wishing Well", per the Wikipedia article on Danny Byrd, a decade before the daytime playlist picked up Ill Behaviour. The remix side of that story runs through The remixes.
Where Ill Behaviour sits on Rave Digger
On Rave Digger, Ill Behaviour is the second single. Rave Digger is Danny Byrd's second studio album, released through Hospital Records on 10 October 2010 digitally and 11 October 2010 physically, and it reached No. 68 on the UK Albums Chart, according to the Wikipedia article on Rave Digger. The count matters and trips people up: Medical History, released 5 March 2007, is a compilation of the early singles, not a studio album, so the studio sequence runs Supersized (26 May 2008, no UK Albums Chart entry) and then Rave Digger as studio album number 2.
The single did its job for the campaign. Ill Behaviour entered the Singles Chart at the end of September 2010, exactly 2 weeks before the album's 10 October digital release, with the A-list promotion running through the gap. The album's full track-by-track story, alongside Supersized, Golden Ticket (24 June 2013, No. 181) and Atomic Funk (7 September 2018), belongs to The albums.
What Hospital Records is, the label behind Ill Behaviour
Hospital Records, the label that released Ill Behaviour, is a British independent record label based in East London, started in 1996 by Tony Colman and Chris Goss and primarily releasing drum and bass, per the Wikipedia article on Hospital Records. Its artists have included Netsky, Camo & Krooked, Logistics, Nu:Tone, Metrik, Fred V & Grafix, High Contrast and S.P.Y. Byrd was one of the first artists to sign to the label, in 1999, and his first Hospital singles were "Do It Again" and "Changes". A search for the label's name often lands among unrelated results about paperwork, but in Danny Byrd's world Hospital Records means exactly one thing: the imprint that carried every release named on this page.
The genre frame completes the picture. Drum and bass is a UK-born electronic dance music genre from the early 1990s, built on fast breakbeats at typically 165 to 185 beats per minute with heavy bass and sub-bass lines, per the Wikipedia article on drum and bass. Ill Behaviour is that genre operating at national playlist level, and the wider style, its jungle roots and its liquid branch are mapped on Drum and bass.