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Electrikal Sound System welcome back Benny L to Edinburgh!  Benny is up there with Serum and Voltage as one of this year’s most distinctive bassline sculptors. Obscenely on-point and sonically mature beyond his years, his basslines don’t bang but groan and moan under heavy production pressure. Rolling like old oak furniture being charged across floorboards by a herd of elephants, wheezing like the last puffs being squeezed out of a giant titanium robot, they’re not of this world and remind us of that iced-out, weirdo feeling only drum & bass can conjure.  Line Up: Main Room (Drum & Bass / Jungle) Benny L, Electrikal Sound, Master Of Bassline B2B Traf, Phinnegan. FACEBOOK // TICKETS

11-piece Afrobeat-inspired rock-funk-psych juggernaut from Manchester, Agbeko play live with support from the mighty Samedia Shebeen DJs.  Agbeko were born out of admiration for the enduring music of 1970s West Africa and have spent the past three years honing a singular, contemporary sound built upon its teachings. An onslaught of horns, guitars, percussion and gutsy vocals, the eleven-strong outfit deliver powerful songs packed with riffs, groove and lyrical prowess to move gig-goers, festival throngs and afro-funk aficionados alike.  Named one of Band on the Wall’s ‘ones to watch in 2019’ and with a growing arsenal of tunes, and radioplay, Agbeko are fast gaining a reputation for inducing anthemic singalongs and mass dance-offs to stages throughout Europe and beyond. Fans of Fela Kuti & Africa 70, Hailu Mergia & The Walias Band, Antibalas, Budos Band, Ibibio Sound Machine and The Souljazz Orchestra, take note!  ‘Manchester’s finest – and most persuasive – advert for quixotic musical adventure’
​Manchester Evening News. ‘Go and see them if you can for one of the best gigs of your life’
Now Then Magazine.  ‘I got so lost in the sound that I actually fell over…It was completely out of hand’ Sample Sound Music 

Mumbo Jumbo mixes it up a whole heap.  Resident DJs Trendy Wendy, Steve Austin and Eva Crystaltips play everything from disco, funk and soul to electro and house: Saturday night party music all night long.  But Mumbo is very much a LIVE dance party: Mari Pots n Pans gets busy on the live percussion and fellow new recruits Erb & Ting (alias Al Roberts and Groove Armada’s MC MAD) also get jamming on guitar & vox. FACEBOOK AND upstairs it’s the LUCKY 7 SKA N REGGAE CLUB, with Tall Paul (The GoGo) and friends playing vintage ska, early reggae, calypso, 2-Tone, & Jamaican Sounds!  FACEBOOK Two clubs for the price of one?! You bet!

Scotland’s dedicated weekly drum n bass night.  DRUM & BASS,
JUNGLE, BASSLINE, GRIME, BASS, GARAGE. Multi-genre guests in Room 2.  DRINK DEALS: £1 shots, £1.50 tequila, £2 spirit mixers (rum, vodka, gin), £2.50 Red Stripe (500ml can).  FACEBOOK

The circus is back in town!  After a couple of months in winter camp Poetry Circus and Voicex are back at the Bongo Club on 27th March with the phenomenal Post Punk Cabaret – a thrillingly electrifying mix of spoken word, physical theatre and music.  We have Spoken Word from Poetry Circus regulars: Victoria McNulty, Rana Marathon, AR Crow, Scott Redmond, Suky Goodfellow and Max Scratchmann.  Physical theatre from the incredible Andromada Mystic.  And – making their joint debut on the Poetry Circus stage – we have music from Alive and Brel and Voicex.

Scotland’s dedicated weekly drum n bass night.  DRUM & BASS,
JUNGLE, BASSLINE, GRIME, BASS, GARAGE. Multi-genre guests in Room 2.  DRINK DEALS: £1 shots, £1.50 tequila, £2 spirit mixers (rum, vodka, gin), £2.50 Red Stripe (500ml can).  FACEBOOK

Headset features Skillis and friends playing garage, techno, house and bass downstairs, with old school hip hop upstairs.

Past guests:
Hodge, Kowton, Peverelist, DVS1, Slam, Beneath, Paleman, Mosca, Cera Khin, Wen, Parris, Facta, K-Lone, Laksa, Piezo, Cooly G, Sticky, El-B, Groove Chronicles, Roska, Scott Garcia, Champion, Murder He Wrote, DJ MA1, Chris Farrell, Bake, Danielle, Daisy Moon, Mother, DJ Crud, Greenman, Ribeka, Redstone Press, Partial, Hi & Saberhägen, Telfort, Percy Main

Music of many colours since 2010.   Strictly party vibes.

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Scotland’s dedicated weekly drum n bass night.  DRUM & BASS,
JUNGLE, BASSLINE, GRIME, BASS, GARAGE. Multi-genre guests in Room 2.  DRINK DEALS: £1 shots, £1.50 tequila, £2 spirit mixers (rum, vodka, gin), £2.50 Red Stripe (500ml can).  FACEBOOK

Yes, Disco Makossa is back in the area to bring you night of dancefloor ready African funk, disco, boogie, house and a little drop of acid: hot and spicy. And they’re stoked to be at the Bongo over two rooms!

Tropical vibes!

Originally established way back in 1987 (!), Messenger, the original roots advertiser, consistently programmes the heights of conscious reggae music, dub-wise and otherwise!  Upstairs: Sound System Legacies explores the legacy of dub / reggae / roots music and sound system culture on more contemporary club / dance music styles such as dubstep, jungle, d n b, garage etc, featuring DJ Skillis plus guests…  Look out for some of the mighty Messenger Sound System in here as well!  2 Floors of music – Don’t miss!  Powered by Messenger Sound System.  FACEBOOK

Scotland’s dedicated weekly drum n bass night.  DRUM & BASS,
JUNGLE, BASSLINE, GRIME, BASS, GARAGE. Multi-genre guests in Room 2.  DRINK DEALS: £1 shots, £1.50 tequila, £2 spirit mixers (rum, vodka, gin), £2.50 Red Stripe (500ml can).  FACEBOOK