For one night, across seven rooms and 8 bewitching hours, the fantastical freakery that is Rumpus revels and roisters.
Jesters, and jokers, flesh-eating monsters and sparkly-gemmed vajazzlers all, will be dancing up a storm of glorious proportions with those riotous Creatures, Buffo’s Wake, Ushti Baba and Clan Dextine up in the Main Room.
Giving it to you hard and fast down on the ground floor are Forest of Fools and Lead Shot Hazard.
The Balkan Roast returns bursting with bands and bards from around the world. DJs deliver drop-dead divine beats, acrobats perform fantastic feats and feints of Circus and roving artists roam.
★☆Dress Code Suggestions★☆
Dancing Dunces, Scintillating Sapphires, Jaded jesters, Eclectic Emeralds, Vapid Village Idiots, Cute Cannibals, Jocular Jokers, Didactic Diamente Diadems, Gorgeous Ghouls, Raffish Rascally Rubies, Fluffy Fools.
Line up
❤️ Room 1 – Main Room
Buffo’s Wake
A twelve-legged beast hatched in the murky backwater of Brighton, UK. Armed with accordions, violins and a bucket full of gusto they waltz, tango, mosh and kolo their way into our hearts
Ushti Baba
Riotous Gypsy-Folk with hypnotic trans-European melodies and Jungle rhythms.
Clan Dextine –
Takes his audience on a journey through bass and time namely from swing to ska, blues to balkan, roots to rave and beyond.
Paradise Moist –
Living it up large and lively.
💛 Room 2 – Megabeat Monster Takeover by Tremor Sound
Father Funk
Undoubtedly the Father of 21st century bass driven funk. He has created such a recognisable brand, whether it’s his head banging energy, his unique party driven sound or his incredible moustache you know when the Father is behind the decks!
Rogue One b2b Stitch
Rogue One
Rogue one has been making waves in the drum and bass scene recently and has certainly made a name for himself across the country.
Stitch
Some of the heaviest and filthy tracks are laid down by the one they call Stitch. He’ll drop the bass so hard you’ll probably need stitches after he’s finished with you.
Tuxedo Junction
Swing… Shaken, not stirred. This cheeky duo are the crazy cocktail you get when you take jazz and inject it with an overly generous helping of bass.
Bear Twists feat Twitchee & Trafic MC
Bristol’s answer to Too Many T’s. Cheeky and energetic hip hop with intelligent fun lyrics and a level of production that will have you hooked from the start!
Aaron K
A Hot Cakes favourite, his style of breaks will have your booty shaking all night long!
✩Tremor Allstars✩
It wouldn’t be a Tremor takeover without the Allstars making an appearance. They’ll give any headline DJ a run for their money taking you on the most joyous of journeys through almost every realm in the world of bass.
Hosts:
Trafic MC
One of the hottest up and coming MCs of 2018. He’s hosted for the likes of Calyx & Teebee and Noisia so if you’re not skankin’ please continue walkin’!
Twitchee
If you’re a seagull lover then step aside as he’ll wibbidy all over your wotsit! A true killer on the mic and one of the most entertaining free-stylers Bristol has to offer.
Emcee Ellis D
Bring your extinguishers, this host is absolute fire on mic duties.
💚 Room 3 –
Forest of Fools
“Jump-up Folk“,
Lead Shot Hazard
Fast-paced, horn-driven punk
DJ Jamie Moon
Keeping your hips and lips twitching, the best dressed DJ in town!
DJ Bop Gun
Funk to the maximum groove.
NeoPink: NeoDroid
A pulsating African rhythm infused electronic dancescape. There may be DROiDs
🩵 Room 4 – Balkan Roast Room
Blues Mammoth
Music that’s a whole soul deep.
Unknown Era
Music for Misfits, the forgotten, the misunderstood.
Sambattalion
Winner of “the band most likely to withstand high winds†– heat your feet with high-energy samba.
Jorges Hot Club
Smokin’ hot gypsy jazz!
Balkan Beat Bar
What it says on the tin. All of the Balkan. All of the beats. No compromise.
💜 Room 5 – Courtyard
DJ The Alchemist returns with his charismatic cohorts to weave his magical musical spell and keep your toes tapping in our indoor outdoor space
💙 Room 6 – The Wonderland Cafe
Tea, cake, coffee and serenity. Pause the whirlwind of the dance-floor for musical moments of patience and perfect peace with these wondrous charitable Creatures
🩷 Room 7 – Cinerave
VJ Harper – Vibrant visuals to feast your eyes while the beats move your feets to feats of great dancing
