THE first Huntleys + Palmers Audio Club party took place at the University of Glasgow’s Hetherington Research Club venue on December 8 2007. The then-emerging French edits specialist Pilooski guested, and promoter Andrew Thomson – who had no plans to put on a second party – was pleasantly surprised as 100 people came through the door, filling the tiny venue to the gunnels. Fast forward a decade to this Friday and an admirable bit of myth-making from the same promoter will take place as Glasgow’s final Huntleys + Palmers Audio Club party goes down a short walk from the Research Club, in the rather grander environs of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery. The globetrotting Catalan/Swedish DJ and production pair Talaboman are the guests, and a four-figure sell-out crowd is expected.

In the 10 years since that evening at the Research Club, Thomson has started another regular night (Highlife, along with Brian D’Souza, aka Auntie Flo) and three record labels (H+P, Highlife and Belters), and hosted UK debut shows and released debut records by a torrent of great local and international artists including Auntie Flo, SOPHIE, Mehmet Aslan, Alejandro Paz, Mamacita, Oni Ayhun, Helena Hauff, Lena Willikens, Veronica Vasicka, Golden Teacher, rRoxymore and Wolf Müller. He has DJed at top-level venues and festivals around Europe, including Glastonbury, The Barbican, Fabric, Corsica Studios, Razzmatazz, Le Sucre, Berghain Kantine, Tradgarden, Salon des Amateurs and Badaboum, has a monthly residency on Rinse FM and forged a years-long relationship with the much-loved London venue Plastic People. So why bow out of the promoting game now?

“The decision is kind of tied into this event,” Thomson tells me, “as well as the other things we’ve done during the year with longtime friends of the night. As the year went on, and particularly after we managed to get the Talaboman show booked, it just felt more and more like it made sense to bring it all to a close instead of just doing more and more of the same sorts of parties. Confirming the Talaboman show was what really made me think to myself, ‘where would you go from here?’, and that’s really what clinched it.

“I’m now travelling a lot more to play DJ gigs,” he continues, “so regular promoting wouldn’t be as easy as it once was anyway. And I knew I wasn’t going to top this show, so I realised I was at a crossroads and had to decide whether to go bigger and go for the money or to continue doing small things. The first option really didn’t appeal, so stopping the H+P parties is part of pursuing the second one though my own DJing, our Highlife parties (which will continue as normal) and the three labels. I also really like that Kelvingrove is just around the corner from the Research Club – it makes it feel even more like the perfect closing of the circle.”

Thomson tells me September’s show from the French house artist Vitalic has been the only other similar event at Kelvingrove before this. In the wake of that show Thomson was able to conduct thorough due diligence on the famous old building’s suitability before making the call to hold H+P’s final fling there. “I talked to everyone I could about how the Vitalic night went and tried my best to dig up any bad things that people had to say about that night, but I couldn’t find anything but glowing reviews.

“Everyone I talked to loved the combination of the grandeur of the place and the novelty of seeing a favourite artist there.”

Thomson has marked the tenth anniversary with a series of parties through the year, the most memorable of which found H+P mainstays Lena Willikens and Vladimir Ivkovic playing a distinctly festive all-night b2b set at Glasgow’s Sub Club. On the releases side Pilooski was coaxed back to the fray, with the night’s first guest contributing a rare remix to Smagghe & Cross ft. Matthew Herbert In The Morning, the sixth record on the Belters label. The absolutely-final H+P party, meanwhile, will take place in London on December 8, ten years to the day after the first one.

The only question remaining, then, is whether this will turn out to be an “ending” in the style of LCD Soundsystem, the New York group who to much fanfare and weeping played their “final show” at Madison Square Garden in 2011, only to return with a new record and shows around the world a few short years later. Thomson laughs at the comparison: “I’ve really done everything I wanted to do with the H+P parties, so it would have to be something pretty different,” he says. “But on the other hand, the LCD reunion has been going pretty well, hasn’t it? So maybe their example shows to never say never”.

Electric Frog and H+Px10: Talaboman, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Friday, 9pm to 1am, £24