![]() ![]() After they killed him they put her, a 50 year old woman, in jail for five years followed by five years of house arrest.Īt that point in time, my mother and her siblings were just, they had no choice. My grandmother was in interrogation in the next room and this happened, she remembers that going down. The worst of apartheid started happening and my grandmother was arrested by the police for collaborating with her lodger, who was then thrown from the 10th floor of the police building in Johannesburg and died. She was brought up in South Africa until she was 14 to Indian and Malay parents. I would go to HMV and spend all of my money on vinyl and she’d be like, “You were out buying records again?” I would be like, does this seem familiar to you? So I got away with buying records then. Her food money, her money to actually buy groceries. Well, my mom was also heavily into music and it came in useful when I was a teenager because she told an anecdote about how she used to spend a lot of her money on records. They weren’t necessarily dancing all the time.” I was like, “Oh! That kind of DJ. I was like, “How did you play this in the club?” He was, like, “Well, you have to remember in the 1970s, people were smoking a lot of weed. He used to play the 19-minute album cut of “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” by Isaac Hayes, which is just an organ drone with a heartbeat kick drum underneath it and then it kicks in at like 16 minutes. What kind of music were you playing?” And even then not really understanding some of the tracks that he tried to put us onto. When we were younger, me and my sister would just roll our eyes and be like, “Yeah, of course you’re a DJ. It took a few years to get to that point. Seeing my dad in that kind of environment I was like, “Ah, OK.” It was real. Unless, or Larry Levan would probably kneecap you before he actually let you do that, but it was an option. Paradise Garage, all the records were behind and anyone could pick them out and DJ. It’s kind of cool because his record collection is behind him, or maybe it’s the nightclub record collection which was the old thing. Not a massively famous one, but I’ve seen pictures of him and it looks like the peak of Italo with the kind of crazy DJ booth with the lights around it. I can see where you’re potentially trying to get me to go. Could you tell us about the people you grew up with? ![]() Your family’s got very strong musical and political stories. ![]() You mention that your mother and your father - even if you feel out of place in a place, the people that are around you are the most important to you. He says that growing up in Queens - he was talking about Queens in New York - he said, “Growing up in Queens was great, because it was the perfect place to leave.” And that’s kind of how I feel about Peterborough. There’s a quote by Robert Mapplethorpe, the photographer. I was growing up mixed race in a town that didn’t really - like white people full-stop, and was further confused by mixed race people. That was important to me because my mother’s Indian, my father is English. There wasn’t much music, there wasn’t much culture, there definitely wasn’t a real sense of multiculturalism or of alternative culture. I’m from Peterborough in the east of England, and it’s a small town. I might have had a good answer to that once upon a time. But it’s going to be harder than I thought. It’s not helping today, because I really thought I would be able to come in here talk about lucidly about things. Can I just preface one thing by saying that I was a little bit nervous about this, so I went out and got drunk last night. What do the words “where are you from” mean to you? But before we do, I would like to start with a difficult question. Thanks for warming up earlier with some records. So please help me welcome Adam Bainbridge, aka Kindness. But also tells stories about himself and all the people that he works worth. On the couch next to me is somebody who writes, records, and performs music. ![]()
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