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03/11/2026

Borders are strange things, that often get in the way. For some it wasn’t even the need to cross it but to tune in. Growing up in Hamilton, Ontario there seemed to be a classic rock frontier. It was only when Buffalo’s WBLK finally came into range that the R&B gold came through. Aaliyah, Missy Elliott and Timbaland rushing through a young Jessy Lanza’s ears, that went on to give them so much inspiration in the future.

However, music was already all over their house. Both parents musicians, her dad rented PA systems to local parties and had a basement full of synths and drum machines. Jessy studied jazz piano, but it was meeting Junior Boys’ Jeremy Greenspan that really got things moving.

After plenty of studio experiments came Kathy Lee, an oddball R&B tune built partly around a YouTube sample. Manage to make it’s way Kode9, then Hyperdub came calling and 2013’s Pull My Hair Back followed. Alongside tracks like 5785021, it was pop music, just served through a different lens.

Then came more experiments, from Second Chance with Caribou to You Never Show Your Love with Chicago footwork heads DJ Spinn and Taso. Alongside releases like It Means I Love You and VV Violence a trend started to form of productions catchy enough for the radio, but with enough oddities to keep the club heads interested.

Four albums deep and there’s been plenty more. From Lick in Heaven to the piano-house joy of Don’t Leave Me Now and Midnight Ontario. Quite a journey from picking up R&B on the car radio to becoming one of Hyperdub’s longest-standing artists. Ten records tracing the lot, and a reminder that pop music can get pretty weird when you give it a chance to.

Jessy joins us at The Cause for Public Assembly on Saturday 28th November, bringing a bit of that genre-bending business to our new multi-stage day-n-nighter.

Tickets available via RA

Jessy Lanza
Public Assembly

03/11/2026

Saturday night rolled in and what a night of full expression. Performers, artists and dancers lost in moments. A mad house really. Still sort of gathering our thoughts to be honest but for now don’t look away, don’t be scared… just enjoy the sights. Halloween at The Cause, there really isn’t anything quite like it.

Thank you x

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01/11/2026

The godfather 🤍

Without you so much of what we do and listen to would be so different. It was an honour to host you and to have heard Clear one last time. Thank you Juan, may you rest in peace.

30/10/2026

The witching hour is nearly here.

Tomorrow, The Cause goes full Halloween mode. Fairground rides, spooky business, big sounds and plenty of reasons to get dressed up. Costumes very much encouraged, so don’t let us down.

IMPORTANT: Your ticket entry time is EVERYTHING. You must have your ticket scanned by the time printed on it. Arrive early, allow time for the queue and don’t leave it until the last minute.

Read the final info above, get your costume sorted and get down early. The rides are waiting.

See you in the darkness.

28/10/2026

In the current climate of a lot of forced individualism and need for perceived perfection, acts like FAFF existing come as a breath of fresh air. A duo built on collaboration, stage expression of an apologetic diva and a sense of representing the community of creatives that surround them. A project based on friendship.

We forget that sometimes clubbing was born out of that. A need to connect. Friendships born on imperfect dancefloors that maybe go on to even make more imperfect music. That is FAFF. Made up primarily of Elliot and Orny alongside thier eccentric mic holder Kurtis. They are musicians at heart, with an obsession to be in the studio more than a booth which has lead them to now merge both worlds.

Their live show is still young but full of promise and above all it allows them to have fun. Three friends that get to work together. That get to be playful. That get to be imperfect… As Kurtis says there is no ‘magnum opus’, so there is no point stressing about meeting anyones standards. Just enjoy what you can do and what you have infront of you.

Catch FAFF bring their Live performance this Saturday to our Halloween show. The only place to be :)

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27/10/2026

When your taste sways between old Bukem gems and Chicago footwork, you’ve probably too many night on YT rabbit holes and SC mix comments. It’s either that or just an uncontrollable love for all things speedy. At first many say it’s a phase but Nectax’s love for 160 is clearly going no where, even as far as contributing to it instead. Spending the last decade getting increasingly nerdy about what you can do with a drum break.

Starting out in the more emotional corners of liquid DnB, his sound has since shifted towards 90s atmospheric jungle, footwork and experimental 160. Quite the journey, and one we’ve had a front-row seat to since he played the very first Cortex party over three years ago.

Ahead of his next appearance, he’s picked five of his own productions, from Voychek and Body Talk to his Tim Reaper link-up London Bridge, Soundboy Gambit and this year’s Haikyo. Alongside them, a mixed bag of influences. Bukem’s atmospheric classics, DJ Hank’s Chicago footwork and newer breakbeat experiments from Sun People, PEROXIIDE and Tim Reaper.

From his early Cortex set to that rather special debut b2b with DJ Flight in 2024, it’s been a pleasure watching his sound develop.

Nectax returns to The Cause with Cortex for another proper session of jungle and DnB on the 18th of December.

Tickets via RA.

nectax
Cortex

22/10/2026

Yes we know it is only October. Probably earlier than a John Lewis ad this year but Chrimbo comes but once a year, and we fully intend on making a right old mess of it.

A little naughty, a little nice and a whole lot of festive nonsense. CRACKER returns this December for our annual excuse to get dressed up, let loose and maybe get under the mistletoe.

Helping us stuff this year’s stocking are The Divine, Sue Veneers, Fèmmme Fraîche, U-Haul and Smashing Time. Five fine leaders of debauchery bringing drag cabaret, festive karaoke, office party antics, a rather risqué Santa’s Grotto plus plenty more unholy winter cheer. All alongside 12 hours of proper dance-off’s across the whole club.

The musical presents are still under wraps, with our full DJ lineup dropping soon. In the meantime, we’re down to the last round of £10 pre-sale tickets before we spill the beans.

Get in early, you filthy animals x

The Divine
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Fèmmme Fraîche
Uhaul D**e Rescue
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20/10/2026

A chunk of British dance music history has been made in questionable locations. Damp basements, bedrooms, closets, radio towers and, in El-B’s case, a shed at the bottom of the garden. Not quite Abbey Road, but who cares when you master an archive of chopped-up R&B vocals and a stockpile of rude basslines to lay the foundations of dubstep.

Pre shed was a young Lewis Beadle growing up in South London, surrounded by jazz, funk and soul. One day his saxophonist dad came home from a gig paid in studio equipment rather than cash. Handy timing for a teenager finding his own feet in music while jungle, hip-hop and the first waves of UK garage were all feeding into a sound that was getting steadily darker.

By the turn of the millennium, tracks like Digital with Juiceman, El-Brand and his remix of Zed Bias’ Neighbourhood were taking garage somewhere beyond the ch*****ne lifestyle. Same skippy swing, but the low end had started behaving rather differently.

Enter Ghost. A homemade studio where a crew of producers and MCs pumping out the now infamous Pac-Man-labelled records. The Club, Serious, Buck ‘n’ Bury, Express, Amazon. Sparse drums paired with haunted vocal snippets that dominate forums and dancefloors till this day. Nobody had quite agreed to call it dubstep yet, but the blueprint was there.

Garage splintered, the scene moved on and those Ghost records found their way into the bags of a new generation. Burial, Skream, Benga and the early FWD>> crowd were all listening. In 2009, The Roots of El-B pulled together those elusive cuts for anyone who’d missed them first time round. Moments from the past that still sounds like the future. Not bad for a few records made in a garden shed. Then later, Prophecy came through with Burial tying the story into a neat full circle.

This Halloween, El-B joins us at The Cause on Saturday 31st October.

El-B
Slippery Slopes
Cortex

18/10/2026

It’s 2014, aviators on, vest tan to match and you’re losing it in Ushuaïa as that signature one note hold from ‘Starblazer’ starts to float in. For some, that might be all they know of Deetron. The Swiss fella behind that euphoric house anthem. However there’s a fair bit more to Sam Geiser than a few thousand sunburnt ravers and a very successful piano riff.

Before the Balearic isle glory days was a young hip-hop head finding his feet in Switzerland’s early 90s rave scene. Spinning wax, discovering Detroit techno through the likes of Jeff Mills and eventually securing a residency at Zürich’s Trax. By the late 90s the productions were coming too, under various names. Procreation, Karakter and Starfighterz… different aliases for different strokes.

Then came the records that started getting his name into a few more bags. Miss Suave, The Afterlife with Paris The Black Fu and I Cling alongside Ovasoul7. A steady run of soulful but driving techno and house. Until 2011, when a little DJ tool he’d made for his own sets somehow became Starblazer. Released on Joris Voorn’s Rejected, it went absolutely everywhere. Ibiza, festival stages, terraces and the occasional afters where nobody particularly wanted to hear it was time to go home.

You wouldn’t blame him if he spent the next decade trying to remaking the same tune but instead Deetron kept digging. Photon brought the piano euphoria back with a little more bite, while Mars alongside fellow Swiss producer Ripperton under Roots Panorama helped launch his own Character imprint.

Fast forward a few decades from those first Swiss raves and the aliases are still going, Soulmate exploring deeper territory on Ilian Tape and more recent Deetron cuts like Runnin’ on Nu Groove keeping the house heads happy. Thirty-odd years behind the controls and clearly no particularly interested in picking one lane.

This Halloween, Deetron joins the Zenker Brothers for a special b2b at The Cause on Saturday 31st October.

Deetron

16/10/2026

Ten years of Haute Mess. A decade of expression. From creating space for queerness where there wan’t much, to now finding their feet amongst a large community of collectives in London. The crew that has seen out a lot of parties, gathered a few missing memories and christened our Workshop hall, now return to The Cause for this Halloween.

We caught up in the clouds with them, to run through the moments that mattered and all the beautiful mess that’s kept them going. A group effort that has held strong for many years and show no signs of cleaning up their act.

Landing back in the Workshop, this time they host the likes of Adiel, ISAbella, Hannah Holland and more on the 31st of October. Here’s to keeping it Haute and messy for many more years to come x

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