CQAF presents A Certain Ratio.

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English post-punk originals A Certain Ratio return to the Black Box, bringing their unmistakable collision of funk, dub, electronics and dance-floor grit. Still restless, still unclassifiable, ACR deliver groove-heavy industrial realness with a sharp, modern edge.

The show celebrates the release of ACR:BOX, marking 40 years since their debut — the Martin Hannett-produced All Night Party, which also happened to be Factory Records’ very first single. A landmark moment, then and now.

Emerging from the late-’70s post-punk explosion, A Certain Ratio never followed the rules — and never sounded like anyone else. Their forward-thinking punk-funk experiments helped shape the future, leaving fingerprints on artists from LCD Soundsystem and Happy Mondays to Franz Ferdinand, ESG and Factory Floor.

Across a genre-defying catalogue — spanning releases on Factory, A&M, and Robs Records — ACR fused avant-funk, jazz, tape loops, electronics and raw post-punk attitude into something entirely their own. Music that moved the body, challenged the mind, and looked impossibly cool doing it.

Four decades on, the sound still hits hard. The groove still cuts deep. And A Certain Ratio still refuse to stand still.

This event is 18+