Boiler Room x V&A - Friday Late...

On Friday 30th June, Boiler Room teams up with the V&A Museum for Friday Late as we curate a night of music, live performance, installations, original commissions & collaborations, visual culture and design.

Victoria and Albert Museum,
Cromwell Road, South Kensington, SW7 2RL South Kensington

FREE ENTRY / 6.30PM - 10.30PM / ALL WELCOME
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The programme will include an original piece of music by Overmono (XL Recordings) accompanied by a dance choreographed by English National Ballet. Titled 'Space for Everyone' - the combined piece was filmed overnight at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the result is a stunning six and half minute video melding dance, art and music. The video will be premiered at the V&A Friday Late as well as a live dance performance of the piece by the dancers themselves.

We continue our spoken word series “In Appreciation of Lyricism”,  hosted by James Massiah with performances from Jehst, Klashnekoff, Durrty Goodz, Connie Constance, Brother Portrait, Bridget Minamor, Reba Maybury, Zia Ahmed  and Martin Creed.

There will also be a live performance from KOKOROKO, the seven piece London afrobeat collective inspired by the greats of West Africa, as well as an intimate live performance with the folk-prog-jass London band, Hejira whose fans including the likes of Matthew Herbert and Floating Points, who have both respectively released Hejira on their respective labels Accidental and Eglo.

Creating a disruptive live performance will be Deep Throat Choir - an all-female singing collective as they come equipped with a drummer and 20+ strong vocalists that will use the museum to space to interplay between space, vocal melodies and harmonies.

From MTV, to Soul Train, to Top of the Pops, right up to the Boiler Room generation, a video installation entitled ‘Music Television’ tracing the history of music television will takeover the ceiling of the museum’s medieval Tapestry room for the night. The floor will be entirely covered in bean bags, ensuring the most comfortable seat in the whole of the museum.

DJ sets will be held by representatives from Body Motion, Bone Soda, From The Depths, Heels & Souls, No Bad Days and Tiff’s Joints.

Supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund.