BANK HOLIDAY is only a few days away. CHEW LIPS start the night with a live set and then get into the bank holiday mood with 2 of the best dj names around at the moment, MARTELO and DJ SMUTLEE! Playing a whirlwind mix of Dance hall, RnB, Hip-hop and party Tunes!

The weekend has only just got started, Saturday night we have the Outstanding party starters… TOMB CREW, as well as BOOGALOO CREW and PARIAH, bringing you 2-step and House till the early hours!

You still want more? Good, Because we got plently! All day party with ZOMBIE SUMMER SOUNDSYSTEM…. The FREE party starts at 12pm and carrys on through till the early hours of the bank holiday monday… Like one big house party… Who’s House? Cargo’s House! We will be dressing the Garden up like one big mad Hatters Cocktail party and you can come get a teapot of Cocktail!

Its gonna be a hot Bank holiday, so what better way to soak up the hot sun this bank holiday monday than to enjoy the hazy rays and some sizzling tunes at our terrace party.Carnival kings OI YOU! are hosting what will be an amazingly eclectic musical journey that promises to be the perfect soundtrack to close a great bank holiday weekend of music at CARGO.

There will also be a healthy dose of Live music and food served all day and night!

Line-up

Friday 30th April -7pm-10.30pm
CHEW LIPS -
Tickets £10.50 adv – see tickets

Friday 30th April -10.30pm-3am
RHYTHM RIDDEN W/SMUTLEE & MARTELO
Free before 10 and £10 After

Saturday 1st May
Drop Dead w/ TOMB CREW, BOOGALOO CREW & PARIAH!
Free Before 10 and £10 After

Sunday 2nd May – 12pm-12am
Zombie Summer Soundsystem
FREE ENTRY

Monday 3rd May – 12pm -1am
OI YOU! Terrace Party
FREE ENTRY

Monster Cuts

Kaya (Live)

Kid Fiesta (Beats Bubble)

Dave Chambers

Don Simon

An eclectic evening of funk, hip hop, disco, beats and breaks – a new night at Cargo which blends the very best of cutting edge live music with some of London’s most skilled turntablists. Expect a sublime dancfloor driven evening which is guaranteed to get the party jumping – just make sure you get in as it’s sure to be a roadblock!!

Brick Lane Takeover Launches online competition, ‘Get You Jig On’.

This year to promote BLT we’ve set up ‘Get Your Jig On’, an online competition calling on all music and dance fans to submit videos of their best dance moves. Impress us and you could take home the ultimate festival package.

We don’t care whether you’re a pro or a beginner, we want to see your dance moves and there’s a category for everyone – ‘Fancy Footwork’, ‘Dad Dancing’ and ‘I Can’t Dance But I’m Doing It For Charity’ (details on each dance category attached).

Video clips only need to be between 10-30 seconds long. Anything goes really and it’s as easy as filming it in your bedroom, in a studio or in a club. Use a mobile phone, digital camera or handheld camera to record your dance moves and then share with us.

Once you have submitted your footage you’ll be in with a chance of winning tickets to Bestival, camping gear and exclusive VIP after-show party tickets to Brick Lane Takeover plus more!

The three finalists, one from each category, will be invited to a judged dance-off at the event where the winner will take home the ultimate VIP festival package for themselves and a mate. There will also be runners up prizes for the two finalists.

For more information on ‘Get Your Jig On’ join our Facebook page:

Indie legend Jarvis Cocker opens up tonight’s proceedings at Cargo with an eclectic mix of hip hop, soul, funk and world music. Leaving most of the audience looking a little bit bamboozled, the hour ‘DJ’ set from Jarvis is mostly spent with Steve Mackey (bassist from Pulp) having a little dance, changing the CDs and asking Jarvis to put the CDs or 7inches back in their cases. Never mind, it’s Jarvis Cocker after all, even if he does look a little bit confused by the whole affair.

However this is all forgotten as he chirps up and steps into the role of compère to introduce world champion beatboxer, Bellatrix, and her vocal group The Boxettes.

Then, with the whole crowd fixated on one lonely Boxette, delivering a hauntingly beautiful vocal solo, the unexpected occurs. Out of nowhere about a thousand megatonnes of Bellatrix-driven drums and bass kick the crowd into a frenzy and Cargo starts jumping. The diversity of the sounds and the complexity of the tracks is astonishing, and your eyes are darting between the members of Bellatrix’s quintet to try and figure out who’s doing what and how.

When you go to see an a capella group or watch a beatboxer you expect to be amazed: they are going to make music without instruments. If you weren’t mesmerised by them you’d be disappointed. However The Boxettes go way beyond this and make something else happen; you forget to be mesmerised and you want to DANCE. The crowd reaction is incredible and the front rows seem to be made up of Boxette-Wannabes singing along to every word, but it’s refreshing to see beatboxing being taken beyond the circus sideshow and being used to create a genuinely respectable and powerful sound.

Next up, The Stig and Syntax show. With the big man himself proclaiming “If you liked that then you probably won’t like this…” to an already vastly diminished crowd. The boys then tear into “A Dose Of Godzilla Slang” making it somehow twice as aggressive and scary as the album version. No more dumbstruck faces here any more though. The crowd, now only about 40 strong, know why they’re here and go accordingly nuts. We’re then treated to a couple more Syntax album tracks and some large helpings of humour from Stig.

It’s this self deprecatioin that forms the backbone of the Stig and Syntax set: they don’t take themselves too seriously (not many rappers would walk out on stage and introduce themselves as “Stevie Dickhead” and “errr… the librarian”) and they know they look funny (for reference Stig is a huge arrogant Geordie, and Syntax looks like the sort of bookish type who’d be happier at home playing World Of Warcraft and drinking lentil soup).

But most importantly they kill it live. These guys seriously are two of the biggest talents in UK hip hop at the minute. We should be proud of acts like this. In fact these guys should have their own TV show – they’d be a lot more entertaining than Ant and Dec

Boxettes and Jarvis Cocker Review Courtesy of Sarah-Rose Cockcroft

Photos Courtesy of MikeMike.co.uk

OUR HOUSE PRESENTS LOTTIE & SUZE ROSSER

A taster of what to expect below!

Suze Rosser – April Cool Mix

The legendary Lottie has had the dance floors moving for over a decade now and her little black book of parties and venues she plays and has played boasts an array of super clubs such as The Hacienda, Ministry of Sound, Back to Basics, Turnmills, Matter, Amnesia Ibiza and Space to name a few! Not forgetting previous ties with Radio One and guest slots at Ministry Radio. Lottie’s sound is solid yet twisted and at times underground but one thing is for sure the floor is always shaking with base. Lottie is one half of Dr Strangelove the other half being Pete Martin of Coburn who have just released Photograph which is out now on Gung Ho! Recordings Dr Stranglove have remixed tracks for the likes of Caged Baby, Infadels, AHuman and David Guetta!

Suze Rosser has been tipped as one to watch for 2010 and described as a DJ with “discerning talent who is technically perfect” championed by Lottie, Suze has played along side artists such as Paul Woolford, Pete Tong, Lottie, Heidi (Radio 1), Sister Bliss and has played at venues such as Ministry of Sound, The Den and also holds regular bi-monthly residency with her night Hustle which is now into it’s 3rd year. Suze has also recently produced her own Hustle Edit of Ellie Goulding’s “Under the Sheets”

Expect a night of continuous high quality sounds which will get that Friday feeling going and leave you feeling musically refreshed and craving more!

Free before 11, £5 11-12, and £10 after 12