The Cause

Organised by the people behind Percolate and Love International festival in Croatia, mid-September’s electronic music festival Waterworks is a final chance to squeeze every last drop of festival fun out of the summer. Initially due to expand from one day to two at its usual venue, Gunnersbury Park, the festival has been forced to rethink its set-up after delays securing planning permission for the west London park. But the show goes on! Instead it’ll be taking over east London venue The Cause for a marathon 36-hour edition that promises to be no less spectacular.  Waterworks Extended will take place across seven spaces around the industrial megaclub in the Docklands, with the same DJs playing across a mixture of indoor and outdoor rooms. The big names on the programme include Alex Kassian, babyschön, djrum, Midland and Sofia Kourtesis. That’s on top of B2Bs from Bradley Zero and Erol Alkan, Christian AB and Craig Richards, Raresh and Sonja Moonea, and OK Williams and Skee Mask, Call Super and Objekt, and Sully and Special Request.  You’ll struggle to find a festival line-up more packed with world-class selectors than this. We’d advise booking the Monday off work!

Nomadic party starters Cirque du Soul are back in town for the Halloweekend, and they’re throwing a massive Friday night shindig at Canning Town megaclub The Cause. Expect circus performers, haunted decor, food stalls, confetti canons, costume prizes and a genuinely terrifying house of horrors featuring ‘killer clowns, rabid bats and marauding zombies’. DJs will be spinning jackin’ house, breaks, techno and club bangers across four rooms until 5am, with tunes guaranteed to keep you going all night. Get on eBay and start putting together the perfect evil clown look stat. You might want to run away with the circus after this one...

There’s no rest for the wicked. Following an all-night Halloween takeover by Cirque du Soul on Friday night, the Cause will keep the spooks going with a Halloween Festival starting from midday on Saturday and lasting until 6am on Sunday. It’ll be a full venue event that ‘makes the most of every inch’ of the warehouse. And that’s about all we know of the festival so far. Keep your eyes peeled for what we expect to be a deadly lineup.