Now entering its 15th year, the Beirut Groove Collective is a collective of vinyl DJs, crate diggers, music obsessives and artists. Founded in 2009, the BGC throws one of the SWANA region’s most popular underground clubnights, the BGC All-Nighter, running monthly and weekly, consistently for over a decade in Beirut, and in London for the last 3 years. The clubnight has an international reputation for its distinctive sound and attracts some of the world's leading DJs, turntabalists, crate diggers and record collectors. 

At their parties, the BGC plays obscure and underground clubbing records from the ‘60s-‘80s from the Middle East, Africa and around the world, an eclectic mix of Lebanese ‘60s Garage and Beat, Bellydance Psych, Arabic Disco, Latin Tarab, Armenian estradayin, Ethiopian and Sudanese Jazz, Rare Soul and Funk, Psychedelia and much much more.

The New York Times included the BGC clubnights in their list of the "Top 15" parties around the world, and they've been featured everywhere from The Guardian and Monocle Magazine to ARTE, the London Evening standard, the BBC, Time Out London and Vice Magazine.

Starting as an underground funk and soul party in the living room of community space Zico House in Beirut, the party soon evolved into its present day strictly-vinyl format, expanding musically to showcase some of the pioneering records and diverse music scenes that came out of Beirut – a cosmopolitan hub for music – and the wider region in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Over the years, the collective has helped shape Lebanon’s alternative clubbing culture, throwing regular parties in basement clubs, abandoned beachside villas and warehouse spaces in the forgotten fringes of Beirut. The collective's DJs have made guest appearances at festivals, clubs and community spaces around the world, and host regular radio shows on stations including NTS, Do!! You!!! and Radio Alhara.

Line up :

Ernesto Chahoud
Natalie Shooter
& Guests TBA

Date: Friday 2 August 2024, 10pm-3.30am

Venue: KED BEIRUT