Saturdays are split into an afternoon and an evening session. From 4-8pm you can catch Rough Trade's free one and only showcase with plenty of live bands.

From 8pm-2am the nights come in different shapes and sizes but generally with a splendid party in mind.

 

31 July: 4-8pm
free

  

31July: 8pm-2am
£6 before 10pm, £8 after
Rota   Disorder And Progress

with: Idle Hands presents: Ute (pic), Nicholas Stevenson

Hereford’s Idle Hands brings an afternoon of sweetly lilting folk-pop with Ute’s progressive, shifting multi-instrumental songcraft and Nicholas Stevenson’s charming balladry. Fans of Grizzly Bear, Elliott Smith and Nick Drake should not miss.

 

with:
decks: Gringo Da Parada (pic)

After a three-month break Disorder and Progress is back at where it belongs with DJ Gringo Da Parada proving that chaos theory can be applied to nightlife and everyone will be happier as a result.
Club host and DJ Gringo Da Parada is the man who helped to launch Favela Chic in Paris and later did the same again for Favela Chic in our own Great Eastern Street.
Gringo Da Parada revels in adventurous eclecticism, inventive juxtaposition, rare and racy tunes that celebrate the wilder side of life while also moving music forward. Disorder and Progress is a place where Seu Jorge, Serge Gainsburg, the Rolling Stones and the Stone Roses may all get busy side by side and you'll hear classic grooves you'd almost forgotten you loved so much, alongside techno, hip hop, punk, B-more, Britpop, Gallic chansons and quirky electronica. In short, all we can reasonably say is expect the unexpected, because this is a night which makes the improbable possible. And makes you dance like a loco...

07 August: 4-8pm
free

  

07 August: 8pm-2am
£6 before 10pm, £8 after
Rota   Hackney Globe Trotter

with: Tubelord (pic) and friends

An afternoon to celebrate the release of RoTa favourites Tubelord's new EP (on sale in Rough Trade West and East!) Expect their jumpy riff-soaked chaos pop to bring down the house as always.

 

with:
decks: Russ Jones (pic, the Hackney Globe Trotter) and guest DJ Arias (Movimientos)

Russ Jones aka the Hackney Globe Trotter, is having a sensational 2010. He's played to thousands at Glastonbury and at the Roskilde festival in Denmark; he's programmed and deejayed at the best celebration of the World Cup in London - the 25-date Afro Cup Festival at Rich Mix; his latest club night, Arriba La Cumbia, continues to showcase the most cutting-edge cumbia from across Latin America; he hosts a weekly radio show on the SOAS (School of African and Oriental Studies) station at www.openair.fm/hgt and he even won a triathlon which he entered just for fun while DJing in the Lebanon...
He's set to return to the Arts Club with his ace Hackney Globe Trotter night! Of course Russ Jones is already familiar to Arts Club regulars as he's been a partner, with DJ Cliffy, in the pioneering and long-running global beats night Future World Funk. The Hackney Globe Trotter nights are not an entirely different, but still, they move the music along in a refreshingly freestyle transcontinental party mix. He may play classic Cuban salsa or '70s Afrofunk alongside dubstep, electro-cumbiaton, Brazilian D&B and ghettobass. Russ will bring the brilliant-as-summer-sunshine tunes, the multicoloured glasses and the broad grin, you bring the moves. It is that simple.
Guest DJ Arias (Movimientos) joins him. A fellow Lebanon triathlete and long-time Movimientos DJ, he has a great Colombian and UK musical heritage (as he was born in the UK to Colombian parents). 'It really will be top banana,' says Jones, 'as it's his home-coming party after three years in the Middle East.'

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