As an unreal antidote to the jaundiced January pallor, Rumpus is here!
To massacre the melancholy and furnish your February fix of tip-top, non-stop, animalistic amusement!
For 1 night, across 7 rooms and 8 phantasmagorical hours, Rumpus is back with bursting to the brim with live bands, DJs playing everything from turbo gypsy to Drum’n’Bass, art exhibitions, immersive theatre and walkabout performers.
Delve into a dazzling dream-scape of Dali-esque delights peopled with the inimitable inhabitants from the imagination of Roald Dahl.
It is with great excitement and no little trepidation that we lay before you this opulent opportunity for outlandish, hypnogogic and iconographic imaginings
Grab your gumption, take a long swig of marvellous medicine and prepare to perambulate through the fields of surreal.
What’s more, more is more!
Back from the past, with fresh and inky promise, those incredible indelible masters of the craft: The Rumpus pARTy Collective – a hit squad of artists, veterans of vignettes so dangerous that their pencils are legally classed as weapons.
(Psst! Looking for some Mumpus? Did you know Rumpus does free Mum Tickets? If you want to show your Mum* what it is you do on a Friday night, she can get in for free!)
*Dads count too.
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Wacky Willy Wonkas, Peachy Peoples, Marvellous Mr Foxes, Mummys and DaDas, Rambunctious Roly Poly Birds, Piquant Picassos, Orange-cheeked Oompa-Loompas, Apple-cheeked Magrittes, Feathered pranksters, Funky Frida Kahlos, Twits both Mr and Mrs, Constellations of Joan Miros, Terrifying Trunchbulls, Mystical Mugglewumps, and BFGs
Line up
❤️ Room 1 – Main Room
Cool Beans Collective! Off the rails tune selection from these rambunctious reprobates hunting down and delivering dance floor fillers and swung out bombs for set after infectiously pumping set!
DJ Arnivore
Rogue Siesta – Get nice and sweaty with both kinds of dance music: reggae and ska.
Loud Noises Brass Band – Does what it says on the tin, but with nobs on! Classy, brassy songsters.
Vibe Roulette – Two MCs Two DJs. Dance to Chance! Spin the wheel and ask yourself: are you feeling lucky, punk?
💛 Room 2 – Hosted By Wonderland
Wonderland – these radiant Rumpus regulars are taking up the baton for DJ shenanigans. The party is marvellously, magically, mad…and all for a good cause!
Watch this space as more line-up to be announced soon.
💚 Room 3
Jon Bongly – Feel the force of positive energy skillfully spinning anything with a swing. Happy music make feel nice.
Op Sa! – whirl and stomp with these fiery, tipsy gypsy Balkan beats bandsters.
Counting Coins – Get ready to skank, pogo, mosh, jig, polka and maybe even waltz. No enemies, no strangers – GET INVOLVED!
Heleness – tripping from blistering, punchy breakbeats, tribally techno, hypnotic tech house, sleazily grinding electro, to more mellow deep house and tropical Afro and Balearic beats.
NeoPink: NeoDroid – A performance DJ experience with live Djembe drumming over a pulsating African rhythm infused electronic dancescape. There may be DROiDs
🩵 Room 4 – Balkan Roast Room
Swamp stomp string band – bonanza of bouncing banjos and bass!
Happy Biegel Klezmer Orkester – guaranteed to make you laugh, dance, and cry, all at the same time.
The Rin Tins – are you ready for folk fuelled jazz jive boogie?
Spanner jazz punks – Anarcho-Gallic Extravagance – the troublesome offspring of a frenetic marriage between sleazy punk jazz and psychedelic performance art
DJ Eltham John – Playing and flailing some tipsy gypsy dirty dancehall messy mash-up and circus bezerkers.
💜 Room 5 – Courtyard
DJ The Alchemist and his wizard posse return to transform the Courtyard with their chilled out beats and bass.
💙 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
