Imagine being in a miniature festival each month in one of London's most charming Victorian theatres, heaving with psychedelia inspired bands DJs, circus acts in the crowd, food stalls in the venue, and the best, most tripped out visuals you've ever seen.

Last July, The Psychedelia Smithsonian launches at The Secret Garden Party, here's the full story; http://www.completemusicupdate.com/article/eddy-says-live-and-let-die-or-the-birth-of-the-psychedelia-smithsonian-tent-at-secret-garden-party-and-monthly-club-night-in-londons-clapham-grand/

And from September Eddy Temple-Morris and Simone Marie launch the festival tent as a monthly residency at London's Clapham Grand.

The music policy is a tribute to acid music and psychedelia, where the worlds of dance and rock music meet, hug each other, then dance and smile till 3am.

Expect a true festival atmosphere and huge bills of bands and DJs starting September 5th.

All the artists on the bill are from Eddy's stage either at last years, this year’s or next year’s Secret Garden Party.

Listing Info

Name of Event: The Psychedelia SmithsonianVenue + Address: The Clapham Grand, 21-25, St John’s Hill, London SW11 1TTTickets: £10 / £12 / £15 On-the-Door

Date: September 5th, 2015Hours: 10 pm to 3 amLine-up:Live: Lola Colt, Demob Happy, WhistlejacketDJs: James Lavelle (UNKLE DJ Set), Eddy TM, YAK, Sonic Cathedral, Bad Vibrations Music Policy : The music policy is a tribute to acid music and psychedelia, where the worlds of dance and rock music meet, hug each other, then dance and smile till 3am.

Press & Industry are invited to RSVP to our press list for VIP entry and access to one of our private boxes. For all RSVPs, inquiries, Guest-List, Reviews or more info please contact Samantha Mathys at sam@claphamgrand.com.

James Lavelle (UNKLE DJ SET)

Everything James Lavelle has created and initiated has been driven by the same irrepressible sense of curiosity and an incorruptible willingness to take risks. The music released today under the banner of UNKLE is very different from early UNKLE records. The spirit is the same.

Since the early Nineties James Lavelle has been on a global roller coaster ride. It’s taken him from being an obsessive 18 year old indie record label boss to the heart of corporate record company darkness and back to the light with an array of dynamic visual adventures based around the collective musical experience of his UNKLE project.

A child of the sampling generation, he has honed his curatorial skills while riding the tidal wave of information technology. The Nineties were hectic - an endless cycle of clubbing and unfettered creativity and his Mo’Wax label was bold, irreverent and “Kicking More Phunk Than A Shaolin Monk”. He released a flood of hip, deftly packaged 12”singles and ventured far and wide in search of like-minded souls. He forged links with Japan’s hip hop originals Major Force and DJ Krush but it was in Oakland California that he found the future - Josh Davis aka DJ Shadow. In ‘96 Rolling Stone magazine declared Mo’ Wax as the true source of ‘Trip Hop’ - a decision underpinned by the aural impact of DJ Shadow’s ‘In/Flux’ 12” single – but In reality, it was the ‘Headz’ compilation, released in ‘94, complete with cover art by Massive Attack’s 3D that took ‘trip hop’ worldwide. What followed was DJ Shadow’s skilfully crafted ‘Endtroducing’ LP – a homage to his trusty Akai MPC60 and a seminal slab of vinyl that has since notch up sales in excess of a million.

A label deal with A&M appeared to give James the freedom to pursue the Mo’ Wax grail and UNKLE that chosen to deliver the vision. DJ Shadow took on the producer role of ‘Psyence Fiction’. Meanwhile James commissioned Futura2000 to provide the artwork and succeeded in enlisting Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and ex-Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft to the project. It was a radical

venture that predictably met with the glint of sharpened critical knives. A combination of youth and boundary breaking ambition has never endeared James Lavelle to the critics. Ironically, the deal-breaker when signing to A&M records was a Jean-Michel Basquiat drawing that declared “Cowards with get rid of you, the sky is the limit”. It proved an apt warning. At the dawn of the new millennium A&M imploded and took with Mo’ Wax with it. Financial uncertainty ensued. He sold the Basquiat, reverted to his DJ career and pressed on with UNKLEJames Lavelle loves dj’ing. It’s back to basics. He describes his five year long residency at Fabric as “insane” and is happy to point out that he’s had residencies in all of the Top 10 clubs in the world including Zouk and Womb. 

Obsessed with the collision of music, fashion and art James forged links with Nigo at A Bathing Ape and launched Mo' Wax Arts to translate Futura 2000’s concepts and images into merchandise, toys and fashion. He was mates with iconoclastic London fashion genius Lee Alexander McQueen and continues to work with McQueen collaborators Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones. Daydreaming with…. James Lavelle was launched at London’s Museum Of Mankind and has produced collaborations with celebrated artists like Jonathan Glazer, 3D, Jonas Burget, Doug Foster and Turner Prize nominee Nathan Coley. 

The UNKLE crew has been populated by a bunch of serious players who have made a massive impact on the UK music scene and beyond. Tim Goldsworthy set up DFA records, Nick Huggett signed Adele, M.I.A and Dizzee Rascal, Damian Taylor is Bjork’s right hand person, Cameron Craig is a Grammy winning engineer and Jim Abiss and Paul Epworth are both producers at the top the game – think: Adele, Kasabian, Plan B, Florence & The Machine. Another UNKLE veteran Toby Feltwell went on to run Bathing Ape and Billionaire Boys Club with Nigo and Pharrell.

Eddy TM

Photo Credit: By Emma J at Woolhouse Studios

If Eddy Temple-Morris were writing this himself, he’d have to say he discovered penicillin, staged the first cross-channel flight and once had a dog called Snoopy - largely because he’d be mixing other people’s biogs in with his own.Since launching Xfm’s legendary (and twice Sony Award nominated) dance-rock crossover radio show, The Remix (now the biggest specialist show on the station), nearly ten years ago, Eddy’s become the undisputed champion not just of genre-hopping but of genre-breeding, slipping enough pills into dance music’s pint until it finds itself curled up in the corner of the room with rock’s dangly bits in its mouth.It’s why artists from Kasabian to Liam Howlett (The Prodigy) rate his presenting skills, his DJing skills and his-hat-wearing skills above any other’s. It’s why his Losers remixes have graced recent b-sides from the likes of The Prodigy, Placebo and Snow Patrol, why ‘Patrol’s frontman Gary Lightbody calls him ‘twisted genius’. It’s why the man behind Manumission rates Eddy as “the future of Ibiza” and

why he’s Pendulum’s favourite tour DJ.Wherever music makes people feel better, that’s where you’ll find Eddy. You’ll know his voice from the radio (Chris Evans once called him the coolest man working in the medium). You’ll know his immaculately groomed armpits from the clubs, where his The Remix, Remix Allnighter at SEOne and at MATTER clubnights are or were consistently among the best-reviewed parties available to the UK and Ibiza’s hedonists. 

Lola Colt

“Brooding Psychedelic Rock” – The Independent

“Sexy yet hypnotic” – Noisey

“Lola Colt have enticingly approximated that Spaghetti / Western / Noir / POP Crossover” - Q Magazine

“All Motorcycle thrills and fuzzed up guitar lines” – Clash Magazine

“Feels like walking into Andy Warhol’s Factory, you are in for a mind expanding treat”

– The Line of Best Fit

Whistlejacket

'Down at their rehearsal space / studio / party area, Whistlejacket have finally found a source of freedom. Able to make whatever noise they like whenever they like, the band have developed a sound that is by turns blistering and soothing, pastoral and quick direct.' Clash

“London's Whistlejacket are a bit of an unknown quantity at this moment in time. We suspect that anonymity won't last for long if their recent batch of Slowdive influenced demos are anything to go by.” - Drowned in Sound

"Hypnotic and immersive" - Faris Badwan

Sonic Cathedral

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Bad Vibrations

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