Neoprene Genie presents: WISHED UP

Neoprene Genie presents WISHED UP! at Rowans Tenpin Bowl. Yes, Rowans!

The iconic North London bowling alley / club that many of us have grown up on.

This party is a special one, as it's doubling up as Neoprene Genie's founder Tice Cin's 30th Birthday so the lineup is stacked with loved ones ready to have us dancing from 7pm.

Free entry before 9pm, after that point you need to cop the £5 entry ticket – and any other ticket tiers are donations to our running costs. Expect bangers, underground flips of childhood faves, and eclectic bowling coded songs on the legendary Rowans Void Sound System!

We have a bowling line aside for genie folks all night, but if you want a guaranteed bowl definitely book a lane separately via the Rowan's website. There are also Pool Tables by the DJ decks if that's more your vibe.

The night kicks off with a b2b from Tice and KEMANCI, a high energy boppy set that takes us through into a set by Jess Mavz right into NAMAK, Starry Niece, A.G, ONE BOK and KEMANCI.

We have M.I.C, Latekid and Kareem Parkins-Brown hosting and toasting in the later hours of the set.

Remember, after 9pm, the event is £5 then PAY WHAT YOU CAN, with admission to Rowans as part of that charge (£5)

Bowlers! Upstairs lanes are 13-24. As of today (3rd May) people should text their booking requirement to us on Rowans Insta. The bookings team will do everything possible to fit them in upstairs .

The age limit changes to +21 at 7.30pm

Set times:

19.00-20.00 – Tice Cin b2b KEMANCI

20.00-21.00 – Jess Mavz

21.00-22.00 – NAMAK

22.00-23.00 – Starry Niece

23.00-00.00 – A.G

00.00-01.00 – ONE BOK

01.00–02.30 – KEMANCI w/ Latekid, Kareem Parkins-Brown and M.I.C hosting and toasting.

You absolutely must either arrive with a pre-9pm ticket in order to get in to Rowans without paying £5 entry and then we're upstairs! Or you need to get our General Admission ticket and choose the accompanying donation tier! It's a sliding scale from £5 with a £1 donation, to more.

One Bok – It's an honour to have One Bok, a genuine source and inspiration behind so much of the sound you have grown to know at Neoprene Genie. South London producer and Nightslugs co-founder Bok Bok launched their new label ‘AP Life’ and an LP under the alias, One Bok. You may have heard ‘Zodiac Beats 1&2’, a beat tape in its purest sense, which harks back to the early days of UK Grime, circa 2004, bringing it up to speed with nods to UK Drill. One Bok in their music often explores themes of solitude, pain, frustration and catharsis, imagining “a soundtrack to reluctant plateaus, destroyed urban landscapes, grimey moshpits – with the inaccessible wealth of the Other London always looming just out of shot.”

NAMAK – We're so excited to welcome NAMAK, a North London musical don – who actually DJ'd at the very first Neoprene Genie in Post Bar, Tottenham. Rooted in London’s underground scene, Namak brings a distinct voice to the club, blending UK funky, garage, bass and experimental electronic influences into high-energy, rhythm-led sets. She’s delivered genre-blurring mixes for NTS and Voices Radio, and hosted takeovers on Foundation FM, with her productions receiving support across NTS, 1Xtra, KISS, MODE, Selector, Komrad FM, Foundation and more. Her selections reflect a deep knowledge of club culture and an ear for movement, with standout performances at venues like The Jago and Corsica Studios, where she played as part of the Keep Hush x Lady Shaka takeover. Namak has also curated and thrown events at The Haggerston, Alibi and Bar A Bar, building spaces that centre energy and connection. Her unreleased productions have been on heavy rotation across the globe and she is your favourite producer's favourite producer.

Outside the booth, she heads up the iconic FFRR label, shaping the future of electronic music from both sides of the decks. As a producer, she is steadily developing a catalogue of percussive, club-ready tracks that sit somewhere between rave euphoria and low-end weight

A.G – A.G is an artist we've been hoping to welcome to Neoprene Genie for many years. Her remix of Happy Ending by Kelela has been a mainstay at all of our nights, and you'll rarely hear an event of ours without A.Gs tunes playing. Entranced between grimey melody and reverberant messaging, A.Gs songs feel like a soundsystem inside of a fairy fountain. We were recently listening to a show of hers on NTS that was a key example of what makes her selections and blends as a DJ so important, with tracks J Hus 'It's Crazy' getting bathed in game coins being bopped by an invisible Mario. A few years ago we saw A.G playing for the first time and thought that's how it's supposed to be done. It only feels right to have her at Rowans, a bowling alley club local to the Hackney talent, and sentimental to all of us gamer boppy kids.

Kareem Parkins-Brown – Kareem is a poet and produkky specialist and also a Neoprene Genie resident artist. Parkins-Brown is the lightkeeper of hood surrealism. Kareem is very chuffed to have designed a few things, including the visualscape for a show at Bush Theatre, along with collaborations with The Albany for Deptford Literature Festival and clients like Pinterest. His recent one man show Bougie Lanre's Boulangerie was inspired by his time in catering, it has been commissioned and toured regularly since its debut – with rave reviews. His recent pamphlet Oi You Lot is an audacious, richly plural celebration of friends and selves, present and otherwise. In Parkins-Brown’s hands, language bends like an illusionist’s spoon – a dazzling, fisheye-lens distortion of daily grief, absurdity and communion – while reminding us always that the trick is to carry on living. Caleb Femi speaking of Parkins-Brown shares, 'There is no writer like Kareem Parkins-Brown. How exciting to see new pathways through the forest of the British canon. Oi You Lot is the tender within the storm, written at the pulse of the moment.’

KEMANCI is a filmmaker, experimental artist and producer. He makes multi-genre club tracks that have inspirations of Jersey club, Grime, Turkish funk and more. He is one of the founding members of creative house fwrdnmtn*. His sets are full of energy, and usually accompanied by his friends singing along at full gorgeous volume. He drops music under a lot of aliases, so you've probably raved to his tunes more than you think ;)

Tice Cin – an interdisciplinary artist from North London. She experiments in the space of portals. Tice has acted and performed at venues such as Victoria and Albert Museum, The Roundhouse and Barbican’s Pit Theatre, and has been commissioned by organisations like Cartier, St. Paul’s Cathedral and Montblanc. She was named one of Complex Magazine’s best music journalists of 2021 and 2022, and has written for places such as DJ Mag and Mixmag. A DJ and music producer, she is preparing to release an accompanying album for Keeping the House with a host of talented features including those from the creative house she is part of, Fwrdmtn, such as Kareem Parkins-Brown and Latekid. Her DJ sets usually feel sexy, breathy and a bit strange, like you're biting into a bride and they taste like cherries.

M.I.C – North London rapper, producer & pioneer of grime's newest renaissance. 
 Described by NME as “experimental grime that’s both wonky and wonderful”, M.I.C (shorthand for the Master of Inane Conversation) is a North London based rapper/producer. Having been compared to artists such as FKA TWIGS, A$AP ROCKY and Skepta, as well as being given co-signs from several grime stalwarts (namely JME, Lethal Bizzle and Maxta), In January 2019, M.I.C was featured in the NME 100, NME’s annual rundown of “100 brand new artists set to dominate in the near future”. 
 Since then, he has gone on to play many shows all over the UK (Warehouse Project in Manchester, the monthly night by experimental electronic label Hyperdub "ø" & CRXSS PLATFXRM Festival in Peckham, to name a few), and has been covered by several notable publications, such as Trench, Complex and Dummy Mag. In October 2019, M.I.C's track "Afropunk Atlanta" was featured on the eighth episode of Blonded Radio (brainchild of one of the most elusive characters in popular music, Frank Ocean). 
 In July 2021, M.I.C came together with Norwood producer Nammy Wams to release "You Can Achieve Anything", progressive grime which takes as much influence from Nietzsche and anti-religious death metal bands like Immolation as it does from Carn Hill and President T.

Latekid – sound artist. creative. writer. fwrdmtn* founder. Latekid has been a sound designer for Louis Vuitton, V&A Museum and more. He is set to release an upcoming project, poised in the etherpoint between youth and knowing. He has had sold out headline shows at Jazz Cafe and more – known for his iconic pitchbending voice and lyrical flaire. Check out his song THE SINK, out now.

Starry Niece – Starry Niece is a DJ whose sounds are sweet and rude. She is commonly heard playing grime beats and funky house on her residency at the radio station Mode London, a variety of artists often featuring as guests on the show. She's brought her curiosity and exploration to DJ sets at Colour Factory, Peckham Audio, Venue MOT and Dalston Superstore, as well as the beloved queer bass rave Bumpah. She also works documenting and archiving community arts in North London. We love Starry very much at Neoprene Genie – she has performed poetry over grime instros at our night UPLINK, a collab with AboveGround Bros w/ No Vista. When we hosted an interdisciplinary book launch for beloved poet Kareem Parkins-Brown, Starry Niece laid down a fire set that mixed breezy pop edits with heavy bass bangers. Starry Niece also collaborated with us on Stargazers, a community bloc party she dreamt up celebrating grime and inspired by the daydreaming tendencies of music obsessives in the internet age. She’s the heart of what makes the intermingling of art and community matter to us, and we’re so thrilled to have her play for WISHED UP on May 3rd at Rowans Tenpin Bowl.

Jess Mavz – Jess Mavz is a multi-genre DJ from Enfield, known for her warm and exuberant sets. Starting out with nothing but a DJ controller and a dream, Jess Mavz spent her early days hosting clubs nights across London and collaborating with radio stations such as Westside, Reprezent, No Signal, Foundation Fm and Threads Radio which led her to finding her diverse style. Over the years Jess Mavz has played in various venues such as Boxpark Wembley and Southbank Centre. She has worked with a variety of brands such as Enfield Council, Nike, GymShark, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and Sophie Tea Art.

Neoprene Genie Safer Space Policy

While we believe it is irresponsible for promoters to guarantee a safe space due to the realities that remain ingrained in our society – we strive to create a safer space for all those who attend our events. First, we have zero tolerance for violence, racism, transphobia, sexism or other discriminatory language or actions. We also have a firm zero tolerance policy for sexual and/or physical harassment or violence. Anyone who does not follow this policy while gathering with us will be asked to leave. If you experience this behaviour in any form then please report it to any of the Neoprene Genie crew. We have security on the night at Rowans (this is what the venue entry charge goes to).

Consent; before you touch anyone or discuss sensitive topics ask if they are comfortable with that. Don’t assume your physical & emotional boundaries are the same as other people’s. Please do not record people without their consent.

If you are feeling shy on the night, please introduce yourselves to us – we're a friendly crew.

As with all Neoprene Genie's, this event is a queer-allied night, meaning that cishet people are on the lineup and in attendance, but with priority for the upliftment and care of our queer, mostly Global majority family.

ACCESSIBILITY

The dancefloor is not wheelchair accessible as we will be upstairs unfortunately, however there is a ramp upon entrance, we are working with Rowans to have a bowling lane aside downstairs for friends with accessibility requirements to be able to come and spend the night with us that Including a bowl. For full accessibility details, please get in touch: neoprenegenie@gmail.com

COVID POLICY: Please test if feeling unwell or showing symptoms of COVID-19 before attending the event.