2026/27 Artist lineup

Carδamo is an Artist/Producer based in London, whose practice explores themes of identity, trauma, and liberation. Their music draws from a wide range of influences, from Λαϊκό to Hardcore, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan to Dido. For Carδamo, music serves as an emotional exploration of spirituality, uncertainty, and gratitude, cementing their work in the canon of other queer contemporaries. With support from The Roundhouse and Youth Music’s NXT Gen Programme, Tomodachi ☆ Kimitachi is a mixtape encompassing their love for dance music through extensive collaboration.

Through exuberant performances of groundbreaking programmes ranging from Haydn quartets to Charli XCX arrangements, the Jasmine Quartet brings contemporary classical music into new & unorthodox spaces, reframing the string quartet for the 21st century and advocating passionately for classical music’s most exciting emerging voices.

The Jasmine Quartet has been supported by the Hinrichsen Foundation and mentored by the Marmen & Ligeti Quartets at the Royal College of Music, where they were awarded the Helen Just & Susan Connell Prize and Sacconi Quartet Prize. They were jointly shortlisted alongside Zygmund de Somogyi for the 2026 Alpine Fellowship Music Prize. DJ BIO: Delyth Field / Maiyanaya is a Japanese-Welsh composer and creative technologist whose work spans concert music, film scoring, electronic music, and audiovisual media. She is also an avid DJ – a recent set includes an experimental set at Copeland gallery.

Thea is a Romanian emerging artist currently based in London, driven by an innate craving for nonconformity, child-like wonder, and a strong sense of justice. They’ve worked with Roundhouse, Apples and Snakes and headlined poetry events across UK. Having a background in journalism and hard sciences, their work engages with complex stories involving injustice, laughing in inappropriate circumstances and exploring identity on a linguistic level. To her family’s loving exasperation, she is still figuring it out and considering 3 new career paths every week. Their favourite words are “silly” and “mormoloc”.

SouSou is a singer based in South-East London. Born in France with Palestinian heritage, she infuses the London music scene with an enchanting fusion of Arabic tradition and contemporary jazz. Drawing inspiration from artists like Fairuz, Yebba and the poignant storytelling of French chanson, SouSou melds these influences into a uniquely personal yet universally compelling sound.

Âme du Soleil is a London-based Black & queer-led creative collective providing safe third spaces for Black and queer people in London. Founded by YASMIN BALENO and Matipa Moon, two London-based creatives, the collective champions emerging Black queer artists and creates events, workshops and experiences rooted in community. From social gatherings and creative workshops to live showcases, Âme du Soleil creates spaces where people can be celebrated, connect and experience culture without breaking the bank.

Their mission is rooted in the belief that joy, art and culture should be accessible to everyone, especially those who are often underrepresented. Their Roundhouse showcase brings this very spirit to the stage, spotlighting a new generation of Black queer talent.

Over the last decade, I’ve toured internationally, directed multidisciplinary productions, secured major public funding, and collaborated with global brands. My work sits at the intersection of performance and creative strategy — rooted in queer legacy, connection, and the power of live experience.

My mission is simple: to spread love, joy & celebrate queerness.

Ultimately, I want people to connect.

Eleanor Cousins Brown is a poet from Wiltshire by night and an editor by day. A member of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective 2025-6, she writes about guilt, class and family, about the absurd, brilliant and baffling everyday. Her work can be found in Propel Magazine and The Oxford Review of Books and is forthcoming in The London Magazine. She spent a year and a half volunteering with Doorstep Library, a London reading charity, and fiercely believes in widening access to storytelling. She is lucky enough to edit non-fiction, poetry and classics at Penguin Press.

TOBITHEFREAK is a South London-born Nigerian artist, producer, DJ and multi-instrumentalist, carving out a unique sonic space with his take on alt-electronic R&B. Unbound by traditional classifications, he blends elements of electronic soundscapes with jazzy chords and introspective lyricism, whilst adding a bounce intrinsically synonymous with black music. TOBITHEFREAK writes, produces, mixes, and masters his music independently. Influenced by the likes of Steve Lacy, Jai Paul, Frank Ocean, and Thom Yorke, TOBITHEFREAK’s music exudes a raw, emotive depth while pushing the boundaries of contemporary sound.

lulu melons is the moniker under which east London-based, Indian-born singer-songwriter & producer Rahul Menon explores folk-rock and alternative-folk stylings. Drawing comparisons to artists like Sufjan Stevens, lulu has taken his delicate, melodic folk music to iconic stages around London’s underground music scene, culminating in a spot on the Roundhouse’s prestigious artist residency programme. Looking to the future and 2027, lulu is readying new music, delivering his signature softness through brand-new, exhilarating avenues.

Emmeline Armitage is a 26-year-old writer, musician and podcaster from West Yorkshire, signed to Mute Song Music Publishing and indie record label Lewis Recordings. Her writing has appeared in publications that include The London Magazine, Wonderland, COLD, L’Esprit Review, The Line of Best Fit and The Bedford Review. Making music that traverses the gentle line between speech and song she is a former Resident Artist at the Roundhouse as well as Young Trustee on their board, and has hit many early career milestones including opening for The Streets, being elected as a voting member of The Recording Academy, and being named by The Guardian as ‘One to Watch’. Currently, she also hosts and produces two podcasts: Talk the Line, and Out-of-Print.

Whilst studying English at university, Alice Garnett quickly found her creative niche through a column she wrote for a student newspaper, tastefully entitled “Nice to Meet You, I’m a Slut!”. Shortly after graduating, she acquired the “Young Life” column at Prospect Magazine, writing monthly on anything and everything that pertains to her life in London as a proud Gen Z. You may have also read her work in The Telegraph, where she’s covered the demise of dating apps, a bizarre supermarket-based Spanish dating trend, and how couples go about “finding a third”. Alongside the various full-time marketing roles at mission-driven start-ups Alice runs “the vanity cabinet” – a Substack newsletter that covers all manner of sins…

Sophie Parke works at an arts charity in London that supports care-affected young people. An upbringing spent between Scotland and New Zealand has resulted in an indecisive accent but a decisive creative practice, as her career has seen her spearhead content featured by Snapchat, Christie’s Auction House, Mercedes F1, Forbes, the London Stock Exchange, and high profile VCs such as Sequoia and Balderton. In 2023, she led her creative team to win the CogX ‘Voice of Gen Z’ award. Her freelance photography has been featured by NME, Clash, DIY Magazine, Line of Best Fit, Pieute, Christopher Kane, Espacio Gallery, and Tache Gallery, and has produced and hosted radio shows on Limbo Radio, Oxide Radio, Foodhall Radio and Subcity Radio.

FES. is a Milton Keynes native, London-based artist-producer and DJ who blurs the lines of the dancefloor, combining his experience of live music with electronic expression. He is constantly finding new ways to develop head-knocking, cinematic and vibrant music. As a resident DJ with Heaven on Hertz, FES. frequently blends Detroit and Chicago House pioneers with UK garage influence, introducing deeper, more soulful, and rhythmic sounds into his mixes.

Malur is a London-based DJ and producer born in Rome and raised between Singapore and Madrid. Drawing from the golden era of Soul, Disco, and classic House, his sound blends driving rhythms with shimmering samples, warm analog textures, and a deep sense of nostalgia. Through his productions and DJ sets, Malur moves between his own music and the records that shaped it, connecting the sample-driven spirit of French Touch with the warmth and groove of Detroit House. As the founder of Heaven on Hertz, he is helping bring a soulful, vinyl-leaning sound to London’s dancefloors, creating spaces built around intimacy, euphoria, and connection.

Giulia is one of the founders of the music collective Heaven on Hertz. Marketing strategist on paper, brilliant event coordinator and socialite at heart, she has a passion for connecting people and moving to electronic music, whether she’s running in Vicky Park or raving in the crowd. She loves a good to-do list as much as a good boogie, with a music taste that spans disco, Afro, techno and grime. She’s also been (slowly) learning to DJ, like most East Londoners at this point, and is beyond excited to be part of this project with Roundhouse.

Daze Hingorani is a queer choreographer and poet, born and raised in London. Obsessed with nostalgia and grief and otherhood and being seen and being lonely, their work is interdisciplinary and at all times holds tenderness at its core.

Daze has worked as a Resident Artist at The Roundhouse and in association with Sadler’s Wells, creating works such as Shovel (The Roundhouse), Good Grief!, and The Stopping Place (The Great Hall). Performing from Dalston Superstore to BAFTA nominated Bluebird and back again with stops at VTMNTS at Paris Fashion Week, the Hay Festival, The Roundhouse and The Place theatre.

Kate Ireland is a Glaswegian spoken-word artist whose work spans poetry, music and theatre. She has performed headline shows across the UK and supported artists including Antony Szmierek, Joshua Idahen and Jacob Alon on their UK tours. Her debut poetry collection, Adaptive Strategies for a Sensitive System, is published by Burning Eye Books, and her debut album, Self Regulating Behaviours, was released in 2024, blending electronic music with spoken word.

Kate is also the founder and host of Blether, a community arts project centred around storytelling, ritual and play- hosting regular arts workshops and events in Manchester. Kate also works in mental health and education settings, working as a community artist and facilitator. Her acclaimed one-woman show, Golden Time (and Other Behavioural Management Strategies), premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2025 before transferring to the Roundhouse and HOME Manchester in 2026.

Rosie Robertson is a writer and performer currently living and working in London. After three years of dance training in Glasgow she started at London Contemporary Dance School, where her practice broadened. Somewhere between dance and spoken performance, Rosie’s own work has been shaped by the broad range of practices and practitioners she has encountered over the last few years, with play and curiosity becoming two of her key artistic values. Her work is informed by her upbringing in Scotland: its natural and wild beauty; traditional word, dance and song; unique social and cultural landscape; and its complex political positioning.

Eliezer Gore is a Zimbabwean-born artist who was raised in Lewisham. He is a poet, theatre maker and facilitator. His work uses surrealism as the box in which to deliver humor, haunting and hope. He loves community work, helping those who feel unable to access the arts find their way in. He is a 2025/26 Roundhouse Resident Artist, an Associate Artist at Lewisham Youth Theatre, Roundhouse Poetry Slam 2024 Runner Up, a Soho Writers Lab Alum and a previous recipient of London Writers Centre Emerging Writers Commission