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. It was set up by Ros Madden as an experiment of the Association of Humanistic Psychology in 1981, who passed it on to the capable hands of Richard Sutcliffe aka DJ Monkey Pilot and Mary Sutcliffe four years later. Ros Madden died on 20 October 2011 in

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. Monkey Pilot plays a wide range of music in the club, primarily world music/

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fusions, but also many other genres. Whirl-Y-Gig also appears at

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s, featuring both live bands and DJ sessions. Whirl-y-Gig has hosted stages at the first Phoenix festival, seven years at WOMAD in Reading, Guilfest, Beautiful Days, Canterbury Fayre, the Whitby Musicport Festival and at the first Sunrise Celebration. They also run their own record label called Whirl-Y-Music and have organised their own festival, the Whirl-Y-Fayre, which first took place in August 2013, and has taken place every summer since. Whirl-Y-Gig's have featured artists such as

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, Astralasia,

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and

Kamel Nitrate Kamel Nitrate are a British band that creates musical fusion. The members fuse together many genres, most notably world, trip hop, jazz and drum and bass. They are backed by the Whirl-Y-Gig. Andy Kershaw has hailed the group as "the future in ...

. Whirl-Y-Gig celebrated its 21st anniversary in 2002, at which point it was one of the longest-running club nights in the United Kingdom. Whirl-y-Gig were still active and as popular as ever at the start of 2020.

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