History

2 Happy Mondays' fans, a group of percussion mad Ghanaians and some house records. The Kinky Afro nights started as a charity fundraiser in '99 with disorganized bedlam as over 10 enthusiastic drummers were joined by 3 didgeridoo players and a fucking bagpipe player. The crowd loved it. Another was commissioned along with a few posters and mumblings about microphones for the percussion. A few months down the line we found ourselves doing it again on a hot summer Wednesday night, this time the casually penned 'Kinky Afro' moniker reverberating more confidently in our ears. No microphones, mixing desks, or our ever useful Dougal to tweak the sound. Yet again it was raw drums and decks.

Eventually the creaking, often cumbersome machine which makes up Kinky Afro became slightly better oiled and we managed to land on the utopian shores of the, apparently blissful, Friday night slot at the Sub Club after the brutal fire of Jamacia street forced the Sub Club's spiritual home to shut for what was to be over three years.

Cue Planet Peach - a substitute venue which was to do us proud for the next 18 months - the pressure was on as people began talking about a night that relatively few people had been to, but whose name had begun to circulate with canonical regularity.

However after a year and a half of capacity crowds down at the substitute venue, Planet Peach had been financially fed and watered by our ever faithful crowd the management kicked out all Subbie nights and redecorated turning the venue into an incredibly plush waste of time (unless you like cheap R'n'B)

This was a dark time for the 'Fro sound-system, with no other club ready to relinquish all their Friday nights for Sub Club events we were forced produced a series of one-off guerrilla events at marginalized venues in Glasgow and its surrounding areas. Outdoor parties and boat parties were backed up by a Christmas party at the Riverside and our second explosive birthday party at Adlib.

Since then we have been quiet on the gig front as Kinky Afro, residents Matthew Bennett and Robin Murray teamed up with local broadcast maestros Radio Magnetic.com to put together the Glasnost nights showcasing international guests and local legends. However as ever our luck with clubs didn't hold and the powers that be decided to turn Alaska into a gay club and promptly kicked out all the promoters. Before this happened however we had the respected company of guests such as Amalgamations of Sound, Thomas Fehlmann and dun techno god father Thomas Brinkmann.

Since this cheeky little venture came to an end in October 2002 the Kinky Afro collective have been taking time in the break to develop our sound and introduce samplers, drum machines and other boxes of techno trickery to our line up so our blend of fucked up, funky tunes and live percussive breaks are even more slick and juicy to your ears.