Basement Jaxx Did Not Come to Boiler Room to Play Small
Where’s your head at? Basement Jaxx have landed at Boiler Room: London — except a normal Boiler Room setup was clearly never going to contain them.
It’s as if Boiler Room slid into the fellas’ DMs and asked, “Would you like to do a Boiler Room set?” And Basement Jaxx replied: “You’re gonna need a bigger room.”
That they did. On July 31, 2026, Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe took over the Burgess Park Main Stage in London with a full live-band production for Boiler Room’s sold-out open-air event — turning a format famous for DJs, decks and people packed tightly around them into something closer to a glorious, unruly Basement Jaxx revue.
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Basement Jaxx Turn Boiler Room Into a Full Live Show
Boiler Room usually thrives on intimacy. Basement Jaxx answered with singers, percussion, brass, dancers and a ballerina — because subtle was never really the assignment.
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Buckle up. Get your boogie boots. This is an ode to decades of genre-defying, pulsating, up-tempo Basement Jaxx chaos — house music stretched until it becomes pop spectacle, carnival, cabaret and one enormous communal dance floor.
This Was a Boiler Room Set With an Entire Cast
Alongside Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, the production expanded into a proper ensemble. Boiler Room’s recording runs about one hour and twelve minutes, and the stage is filled out by singers, live rhythm players, brass and dancers rather than simply the duo behind equipment.
- Vocals: Vula Malinga, Phebe Edwards, Jai Amore
- Drums: Nathan “Tuggy” Curran
- Percussion: Oli Savill
- Trumpet: Ben Edwards
- Dancers: Tia Hockey, Vanessa Vince-Pang, Bleu Tuitt-Gordon
- Ballerina: Ella Marjorie Betts
That lineup tells you why this one feels different. Boiler Room built its reputation on the camera being practically inside the DJ booth, with the crowd pressed in around the selector. Basement Jaxx instead brought the DNA of their famously theatrical live concerts straight into that world.
It also feels like a victory lap for a group that has always refused to keep house music inside neat little club walls. “Red Alert,” “Romeo,” “Where’s Your Head At” and the rest of the Jaxx universe were built for movement, but they were also built for personalities, voices, costumes, hooks and visual excess.
From Brixton Club Nights to a Burgess Park Spectacle
Basement Jaxx began with Buxton and Ratcliffe’s own parties in Brixton in the 1990s, eventually pushing their version of house far beyond the underground. The point was never just pristine dance-floor functionality. Their records have always been crowded, colorful things — Latin rhythms crashing into garage, disco, funk, pop, punk attitude and whatever else happened to fit through the door.
That makes this Boiler Room appearance almost hilariously appropriate. A platform built around stripping club music back to the room, the DJ and the crowd meets a duo whose instinct has always been: add another singer, another rhythm, another costume, another body moving.
Boiler Room itself described the performance as an ode to decades of genre-defying sound and a “euphoric joyride.” For once, the promotional copy undersells it.
Basement Jaxx Boiler Room London in Images
More from Basement Jaxx’s live takeover of the Burgess Park Main Stage in London.
The performance was recorded on July 31, 2026, during Boiler Room’s London open-air event and released online in late August. Same Jaxx spirit, much bigger room.
Watch Basement Jaxx’s Full Boiler Room London Live Set
Boiler Room’s full recording captures Basement Jaxx and their expanded live ensemble on the Burgess Park Main Stage in London.
Sources: Boiler Room; Burgess Park Events; Resident Advisor.
