The Kitchen

The Kitchen began around 2003 as a side project to both Amanda MacKinnon’s and Ryan Seagrist’s main outfits, Bis and the punk group Discount. Initial recordings were completed in the duo’s home studio where Amanda lived while Ryan flew back and forth from his native Florida. The demise of Discount saw Ryan come to live in Glasgow, Scotland full-time and gave the Kitchen a realistic future. Inspired by the European electronic scene and Punk/New Wave such as ESG, X-ray Spex and Sleater-Kinney, the Kitchen fall somewhere between both forms of music. The modern trend of recycling sounds from the past has moved MacKinnon and Seagrist to try and create a new type that combines both the beats of Electro with the immediacy and ethics of punk to form something different by today’s standards.

The Kitchen began around 2003 as a side project to both Amanda MacKinnon’s and Ryan Seagrist’s main outfits, Bis and the punk group Discount. Initial recordings were completed in the duo’s home studio where Amanda lived while Ryan flew back and forth from his native Florida. The demise of Discount saw Ryan come to live in Glasgow, Scotland full-time and gave the Kitchen a realistic future. Inspired by the European electronic scene and Punk/New Wave such as ESG, X-ray Spex and Sleater-Kinney, the Kitchen fall somewhere between both forms of music. The modern trend of recycling sounds from the past has moved MacKinnon and Seagrist to try and create a new type that combines both the beats of Electro with the immediacy and ethics of punk to form something different by today’s standards.