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Doors @ 7pm Show @ 8pm Full Bar Free On-site Parking All Ages PURCHASE TICKETS Fin Greenall is an enthusiast. Rather more so than you might expect, in fact, from someone with more than ten albums under their belt. This is someone who's lived a life-and-a-half of hard graft and hard gigging in electronic, acoustic and even pop music already - that enthusiasm bubbles like someone half his age discovering the buzz of musical and cultural engagement for the first time. Fin, currently a Berlin resident, was born in Cornwall but found himself growing up in 80’s Bristol, in the midst of it’s famous cultural explosion. "It was an epic place to grow up," Fin says. "The Rare Groove revival, the outdoor rave scene, pirate radio - you'd see Massive Attack driving around, you'd see Tricky in the clubs, you'd have your mind blown by a DJ playing 'LFO' one moment then by seeing Horace Andy... I was skateboarding too, I was right IN it, and we were so, so proud to be from this place with its own thing”. After signing while at college to legendary rave label Kickin’ Records and discovering that Electronic music wasn’t some kind of magical dark art – in fact it was achievable with no experience and a student loan – he was introduced to the concept of London, the concept of DJ’ing for real, and the record label Ninja Tune Records that he signed to in 1996. Mid 90s London was a "thrilling place to be", the music industry was on the up, and he grabbed opportunity with both hands. He worked major label publicity jobs by day, and DJed, went clubbing and hung with the Ninja Tune crew by night. "I just automatically got drawn to what they were doing," he says, "because they were the one advancing what it could be: not just two decks but three, four, with multiple DJs at once, VJs, projections, art, international gigs in Rome, Budapest, Paris, Montreal and Berlin as well as residencies at the now infamous “Blue Note” club in Hoxton. It was just incredibly exciting." Records followed,…

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