Idris Elba plays a one-night-only show at Bangkok’s Cloud 11 on September 26

You know Idris Elba from Luther, from The Wire, maybe from lending his voice to a cartoon animal or two. What you might not know is that he spends a serious chunk of the year behind the decks, and on Saturday September 26 he brings that side of himself to Cloud 11 Theatre.

The show is Sound International, a house night run by Asia-based music agency Collective Minds, and doors open from 7.45pm. Elba plays it billed simply as ‘IDRIS’, the name behind a CV that takes in Ibiza institutions Pacha, Pikes and Hï, plus slots at Glastonbury and Coachella. 

He doesn’t play alone, either. Sharing the booth are Wildealer and Elaheh, two of the artists pushing Bangkok’s house scene forward right now, and both turn up with their own version of the genre. If you’ve spent any late nights in the city’s clubs over the past couple of years, you’ve probably danced to one of them already. Sound International runs on an idea it calls ‘Never-ending House’, which means festival-grade sound stitched together with whatever the room happens to be dancing to.

House music grows fast in Thailand, moving out of a handful of clubs and onto bigger stages like this one. Putting two homegrown names on the same bill as a globe-trotting headliner shows how quickly things move.

Tickets are on sale now here, priced at B2,690.

Saturday September 26. 7.45pm. Cloud 11 Theatre.