The Roundhouse has unveiled a brand new arts festival for 2025 featuring comic Jack Rooke, Lolly Adefope, and music performers Tom Odell, DJ Sherelle, and Self Esteem.
Taking place throughout April, Roundhouse 360 will include cabaret, club nights, music, theatre, art installations and the venue's famous poetry slam.
The month long festival wraps up several existing events in one - including spoken word festival The Last Word, and emerging artists showcase Roundhouse Rising.
Highlights of Roundhouse 360 include Jack Rooke's Showhole, a club, cabaret and comedy mash up in the Chalk Farm venue's main space with DJ sets by a host of names including Self Esteem and Lolly Adefope.
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There's also the debut performance by Centre 59, a new young people's theatre set up by associate artistic director Daniel Kaluuya, and a cheap-ticket rave curated by DJ Sherelle.
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Like Kaluuya, Rooke is an alumnus of The Roundhouse's longstanding creative work with young people which offers affordable access to training, facilities and mentoring in acting, music, radio and spoken word.
He said: "2025 marks 15 years since dweeby teenage me got off the 31 buse every Wednesday evening to do a 12 week arts project at The Roundhouse.
"Back then it was my solace, escape and chance to see if I could pursue a career as a creative. Over a decade later, the building still feels like home."
Rooke, whose TV work includes BBC Three series Happy Man and Channel 4 comedy Big Boys which has just wrapped a third series, said he started off aged 16 at Roundhouse radio, which included interviewing the resident poets.
"Until then I wanted to be a journalist, but I realised it was so much more fun to create work than talk about it."
He got "sucked into the poetry collective" making deep friendships even though he wasn't great at writing verse.
"A lot of my best friends from 10 years ago are still my best friends, people who mentored me then are close collaborators now."
The Roundhouse was also the space where he developed his first Edinburgh show about bereavement Good Grief, which involved a coffin full of sweets.
"It was about comfort eating, I invited people to take a Moam and sit down so it was performing in front of a lot of rustling packets.
"Going back to my dressing room afterwards, a little part of my ego said 'right, how do I fill the main space now?'"
He adds: "It's always about collaboration this building, I've researched and developed every live show here, it's a place you can experiment, fail and succeed, the whole cycle of artistic endeavour.
"Showhole is an experiment - it's a club night meets cabaret meets comedy - and it could go a bit Pete Tong."
He likes the informality of a club night: "It's a huge party with surprises, come in as you are, it starts off with DJs, there might be a weird performance artist or a 15 minute cabaret slot, different people from different genres - I am putting myself out of my comfort zone and learning how to DJ!"
Roundhouse Chief Executive Marcus Davey said it was a "360 full circle moment" to have the likes of Rooke and Kaluuya develop their talents at the Roundhouse then return.
"It links the studios underneath the main space and the main space to showcase talent and extraordinary young artists," he added.
"This is about every angle of culture and every angle of the Roundhouse that brings all our fantastic artistic programmes together in one new festival where world class artists work alongside amazing new talent.
"We can show a divided world that coming together with creativity we can make more of our lives."
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