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We still have tickets available on the Door!  Come down early to get in, and get dressed up for a discount on the door price!

Venue address: 33 1/3 Commercial Rd, just round the corner from Aldgate East Tube. That's Commercial ROAD, not Commercial Street.

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Sick of the winter blues?  Tired of the cold and the rain? So are we!  In fact, we’re so sick of them that we’ve having Carnival early!

Join Rumpus as we dust ourselves off, pick ourselves up, and start the year’s partying in style.   We’re bringing you another filled-to-the-brim indoor festival’s worth of goodness, squeezed and crammed into one night.

We've got our usual mix of exceptional live music, featuring the master of Teacore Professor Elemental, Molotov Jukebox and Roadkill Cafe, more top shelf Djs than you could shake a stick at, and we're even bringing you the Calypso Stageshow.

Our friends from the Pandemonium Circus have been allowed out for the night, and they’ll be bringing you Jungle, Ragga and mash ups so grimey that you’ll want a scrubbing, as well as some proper twisted acts and performances.

Meno.tv are back again, mixing up the finest medicine for your eyes and pouring it straight from the cinema screen into your head.  Blondie’s curating another art exhibition, and for that touch of degenerate fin-de-siècle ambience, the Clapton Metropole will be on hand to provide you with the very choicest hand-made cocktails.

We’ve had ourselves some words with the venue, and they’ve built more toilets and there’ll be four bars running on the night, so no more queuing when you should be dancing.

We've got 200 fewer tickets this time, so they will sell out.  Hurry hurry!

Room 1 - Proper Dancing

Hosted by Professor Elemental, politely spitting the finest Chap-Hop & Teacore lyrics at your face

Molotov Jukebox – The masters of GypsStep
Calypso Inferno StageShow
Chris Tofu – The Electroswing Club Guru
Drusus Germanicus – Lord of Beats, Master of Bass
Dr Malaka – exuding electroswing out of one hand, oozing BalkanBeats out of the other

And of course, everyone's favourite, the Ball Pool!

Room 2 – Twisted Beats and Twisted Acts

Wander into the Pandemonium Circus' tropical grime den for a rave ragga mashup hoe down...
Sasquatch (Senseless Records) - dubstep /cumbia/kuduro interbass mash down
Sarantis (Senseless Records) - live dubstep grime PA from Leeds
My Bad Sister (Twisted Sisters)- live pa from the tropical gangstar twins,
DJ Tutti Frutti (Twisted Sisters) - Gypsy bassline techno straight out of Deptford
Bang Crosby (Pandemonium Circus) reverend of sleaze spins a ghetto gypsy bass drenched mash up
Trozminster (Kebele Sound) - afrobeatcumbiastepghettobass from Bristol

Room 3 – The Clapton Metropole Speakeasy

The Debauched, Debonair Degenerates from the Clapton Metrople will be serving up the finest handmade cocktails in the art gallery, along to a live soundtrack.

The Poet's Corner Trio - Cellos & Viola thundering down from the heavens
RoadKill Cafe –Ballads from Bastards
The Special Guests – Speed-folk and prog-baroque, in a gypsy-punk stylee

The Fickle Finger of Fate - Old-Time fortune tellers, telling Old-Time Fortunes

Hairy Poppins’ Pop Up Hair Salon - Transforming shaggy manes into styled cowlicks and unkempt whiskers into the tidiest of moustaches

Featuring art by:
Anne "Blondie" Bergard
Kate Lomax
Iain MacArthur
Simon Fowler
Gemma Fox

Room 4 – Vintage Visuals & Surreal Sights

The Rumpus Cinema rears its beautifully odd head again, thanks to our friends at Meno.tv

Room 5 - Chill Out

Sit down and let Human help you chase away those winter blues in our chill out room, with a mulled cider, a hot toddy and a selection of the finest tunes to soothe your soul.

Expansion Hall - Acoustic Duo
Monooka's Caravan - Transylvanian gypsy folk
Human - Nu-Folk-Pop

And DJ Sets by

Human
Rainbow Noir