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In 1995 Kenny Anderson, then lead singer/songwriter for the Scottish bands Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra and Khartoum Heroes, launched his own label Fence with his own solo project King Creosote. Demoralised and with a healthy cynicism of all things music related, KC set out to make home recorded music in as stress-free an environment as possible. in short, the heels were dug in, and northeast Fife would become home to Fence.

With a few CD-R titles released through local shops, and with brothers Een (Pip Dylan) and Gordon (Lone Pigeon) forming the beginnings of a Fence Collective, by summer 2000 Fence had taken over the running of a St.Andrews CD shop, had an extensive website up and running, and were packing out the local pubs once a fortnight. Collective member James Yorkston made sure that the Fence music came to the attention of labels like Bad Jazz and Domino, and the legendary Fence gatherings were soon on the move.

Independent stores such as Rough Trade in London, Avalanche in Edinburgh, Monorail in Glasgow, and Norman Records in Leeds were all pushing the Fence Collective CDR titles when in 2003 Domino helped launch King Creosote's first album proper "Kenny and Beth's Musakal Boatrides", which made no. 5 in Rough Trade's top 100 albums of that year.

Having supported James Yorkston and other Domino acts in the UK for much of 2004, KC has just completed his first headline shows in England. KC is also a part-time player with Magnetophone, U.N.P.O.C. and Adem.

In 2005 Domino/Fence released KC's "Rocket D.I.Y." prior to the recording of the KC/Earlies project "KC Rules OK" for Names/679.

What a smartarse!