Spag Heddy comes back to Kansas City after ten years, this time in a 300-cap room

The Dutch-born dubstep producer's This Is Spag tour reaches Aura on Saturday, April 3, 2027. His last Kansas City show was at Encore at The Uptown in April 2017.

The last time Spag Heddy played Kansas City, he was on the bill at Encore at The Uptown Theater on April 6, 2017. His next Kansas City night falls three days short of ten years later, and the room is a lot smaller.

Spag Heddy plays Aura on Saturday, April 3, 2027, at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $31.24 through TicketWeb, where the date is billed as the This Is Spag Tour. The show was announced Oct. 27. Aura holds about 300, so a producer who has opened for some of bass music's biggest names will be playing to a room where the back wall is never far from the front.

Spag Heddy is Mischa Reining, a Dutch-born producer and DJ based in Barcelona. He started releasing dubstep around 2011, and the name started as a joke: he told EDM Identity that his friend was MC Roni, he was Spag Heddy, and it stuck. The joke became a career once SKisM, who runs Never Say Die, noticed him. His six-track *Oh My!* EP on that label gave him an audience well beyond Europe, and he has been one of the label's regular names since.

The years between Kansas City dates were busy. He landed on the remix EP for The Chainsmokers' "Don't Let Me Down" in 2016 and put out music on Borgore's Buygore label. His agency notes he has toured the U.S. with Zomboy and Flux Pavilion, worked as direct support for Excision and Zeds Dead, and headlined his own tours. He has also released on Monstercat.

What has changed most is the sound and the name on the poster. His agency says he now works under a sharper alias, SPAG, with a heavier, harder approach: "Where Spag Heddy embraced color and playfulness, SPAG is deliberate, heavy, and uncompromising." The "This Is Spag" tour title is that shift put on a ticket. Fans who remember the bouncy, cartoonish drops of the Never Say Die years should expect something louder and darker, and a 300-person room is the right size to feel it in your chest.

Where Spag Heddy embraced color and playfulness, SPAG is deliberate, heavy, and uncompromising.

For Kansas City's bass crowd, the appeal is closeness. A decade ago he was one name on a bigger night at the Uptown. In April he will be the only reason anyone is in the building, with the booth close enough to see his hands on the decks. A 9:30 start on a Saturday means a late night, and the floor is small enough that it will be full.

If you were at Encore in 2017, this is the rematch. If you weren't, it is a chance to catch a producer in the middle of reinventing himself, in a room built for exactly that.

Sources: Spag Heddy — MB Artists (mbartists.co.uk); Featured Interview: Spag Heddy — EDM Identity (edmidentity.com); Spag Heddy — Monstercat (monstercat.com); Spag Heddy biography — Last.fm (last.fm); Spag Heddy at Aura — JamBase (jambase.com); This Is Spag Tour at Aura KC — TicketWeb (ticketmaster.evyy.net)