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Thank you Minneapolis StarTribune for all the support throughout the years! Our annual holiday benefit for The Food Group has been a Big Gig nine years running:

https://www.startribune.com/search/?query=Kinda%20Kinky

A few of our favorite shout outs: 

2013 Minneapolis Star Tribune Critics Poll Winner
BEST LOCAL LIVE ACTS top ten list

“The best cover band in town”
- Tom Surowicz, Minneapolis StarTribune 12-12-2013

“The best tribute band in town, Kinda Kinky.”
- Chris Riemenschneider, Minneapolis StarTribune 08-01-2013

Friday, 12/23/2011
Minneapolis StarTribune, The Big Gigs* for the week of 12/23:
“The Twin Cities’ hottest new tribute band, Kinda Kinky is pulling out all the stops for this week’s “A Very Kinky Kristmas and Happy HanuKKah and Kinky Kwanzaa” extravaganza. They’ve invited special guests galore, including Curtiss A, Dave Russ, David Beckey, Julian West, Gini Dodds, Kiki Lane, Stephanie Winter and Rebecca Scott-West – everybody but Chrissie Hynde and Paul Weller, though they’ll be represented via the Kinks klassics that they kovered. Father Christmas requests you bring a canned good for the Second Harvest food shelf folks – you’ll get $2 off the cover charge. (8 p.m. Fri., Minneapolis Eagles Club, $5.)“ Tom Surowicz
* Our holiday show has made the Big Gigs list 7 years in a row starting with this one!

Sunday, 11/6/2011
Minneapolis StarTribune, The Five Spot:
“If you can’t make it to Tuesday’s Ray Davies concert, you can get a regular Kinks fix in the Twin Cities: The new tribute band Kinda Kinky. Their performance
last weekend at Brit’s Pub hit all the standards with extra oomph (“Lola,” “You Really Got Me”) and dug into gritty, rowdy nuggets (“Long Tall Shorty,” “Sitting on My Sofa”), showed elegance on “Come Dancing” and peaked with the lesser-known ‘80s gem, “Better Things.”

Friday, 10/7/2011
Minneapolis StarTribune, The Big Gigs for the week of 10/7:
“You don’t have to be a Kinks devotee to get a big kick out of hard-working new band Kinda Kinky – fronted by Twin Cities bar stars Dave Randall and Keith Patterson – but part of the joy is in hearing how deep and timeless the Kinks katalog kan be. (10 p.m. Fri., 331 Club, no cover.)” - Tom Surowicz

“Kinda Kinky delivers the raw harmony and beat craziness of the Davies brothers and beyond. Great band to free your mind and ass to.” - Jim Walsh
(Minnpost.com; Author, The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History.