Fools, jokers. jesters and japers – don your gowns and finest garb, your fetching finery and frockery, for Rumpus is upon us once again!
Whether you be lord or lady, king or queen, patron or peasant: we implore you to join us in the revelry to celebrate our 7th Birthday !
New bands for our always awesome live line-up!
Obnoxiously addictive Millie Manders will be punking it up fast and furious in the Main Room, contrasting superbly with Discount Orchestra‘s feet-twistingly visceral mania.
Meanwhile, down in Room 3 and take in the happy summer skank fest of Babilondon.
For a special birthday surprise, 2016 Sexual Freedom Awards “Danny Ash” be pulling an Action Man from a very unexpected place.
Instead of singing Happy Birthday, don of the decks, and international headliner Deekline will be bringing the celebrations with the finest beats, breaks ad bass, courtesy of our very good friends Hot Cakes.
So fetch out your furbiloes, match up your motley and make for the Metalworks for seven rooms of wonder and spectacle with live bands, DJs, circus acts, dancing and twisted fun beyond imagination.
★☆Dress Code Suggestions★☆
Matchless mummers, Fools in frocks, Harpies with Harlequin Habits, Pranksters in Pelisses, Damask-Draped Dunces, Silken Sillies, Quilted Quippers, Robed Roustabouts, Brocaded Buffoons, Apes in Adorned Apparel, Petticoated Prats, Rag-tagged and Wigged Wags.
Line up
❤️ Room 1 – Main Room
Discount Orchestra – feet-twistingly manic, visceral energy.
Millie Manders – Obnoxiously addictive, fierce, fast and furious.
Mista Trick – ecstatic, eclectic, electro-swing-your-pants
Len Hovis – devilish and delectable banging beats from this slack of all trades and master of fun!
💛 Room 2 – Hosted By Hotcakes
Hot Cakes return to Rumpus, throwing down a joyous blend of jungle, breakbeats and bass music, all wrapped up in a carnivalesque glow of rambunctious pure firepower.
Deekline – funky fresh beats from a bona fides underground icon.
Jurassik – Rumpus regular; Nice-ing up the dance floor for some bad-man booty-soothing and soul-shaking vibes.
Fish – finest, fruity rudeboy riddims.
Sherry S – devastating dancehall dextress: grime it up!
💚 Room 3
Babilondon – Happy summer skanking music..
Clan Dextine – journey through bass and time, from swing to ska, blues to balkan, roots to rave and beyond!
Charlie Chuckles – jump for joy and dance with delight
Brett Wilkinson – banging beats to keep the up the heat beyond dawn
🩵 Room 4 – Studio 53
Welcome, debauched Creatures, to this slice of 70s glamour projected through the acid-laced lens of the present day, daubed with decadence and riddled with raucous fun.
Funkier, goofier and more fabulous than Studio 54 and located just one floor below.
Back-2-Back DJs – Paul Hanford, Glitchard & Judy & Tommy Tuppence Disco, firing funk, soul and ghetto bass all night long.
Groove the night away in a flurry of glitter-ball gorgeousness to music of the era tastlessly twisted by our skilled music maestros.
Salvador Dali will, of course, be offering surrealist portraits to our raffish revellers whilst the miasmic maelstrom whirls around him.
💜 Room 5 – Courtyard
Once again, the busiest indoor outside space will be peopled with artists, face-painters and circus spectacularists! All overseen by the kindly eye of the legendary DJ The Alchemist and his talented crew.
💙 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