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RUN All Day 2025 preview: who’s who in DnB takeover
Hedex & Mozey will headline this year’s RUN All Day festival at the Lloyds Amphitheatre on July 26.
The day is part of the wider Siren weekend, alongside Bloc Party and Sasha & Digweed.
Tickets start from £35, with the all-day event running from 1pm to 10:30pm.
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But who are the artists taking part? From vocal heavyweights to local pioneers, here are some of the standouts:
Hedex & Mozey
Jack Hedges and Michael James Hitches (better known as Hedex & Mozey) bring chaos and charisma in equal measure, as well as International appeal having appeared at BassFest last summer and in New York’s Webster Hall.
If you want a great snapshot of what they have to offer – have a listen to their 2023 collab Meat Cleaver: heavy jump-up, playful samples with not an ounce of rest.
Fun fact: Mozey used to work as a heating engineer and has a degree in mechanical engineering from The Open University.
Basslayerz
The Nottingham trio Basslayerz – DJ Slipz, MC Spyda and MC Blu Bomma – bring decades of experience with a fresh, explosive energy.
Formed in 2011, they’ve become known for rowdy crowd control and heavyweight tracks like Shoot, Pon Di Bill and Click Click Click.
Spyda is a jungle pioneer whose voice features on Pendulum’s Tarantula, Blu Bomma’s sharp lyricism gives every drop bite, and Slipz’s genre-hopping DJ skills have earned him co-signs from Nicky Blackmarket and Andy C.
Fun fact: MC Spyda made his first record while on holiday in Antigua – and goes by the alias “Black Tarantula”.
Catching Cairo
Catching Cairo’s voice feels like it’s floating above the chaos with their smooth, soulful and impossible to ignore sound.
Raised in North London, she grew up on a mix of Frank Ocean, Ms. Dynamite and Bombay Bicycle Club — and you can hear every bit of that influence in the way she fuses jazz, reggae and R&B with drum and bass.
She used to go by Tiffani Juno, but under her current name she’s carved out a sound that’s unmistakably her own. Collaborating with names like Hybrid Minds and Kasra, while also putting out raw, emotional solo work like the Aura EP.
Fun fact: She initially wanted to read law, but her career course changed when her sister who nudged her towards studying music at the Brit School.
Critical Impact
Bristol-born William Heath, aka Critical Impact, has tracks built for dancefloors — gritty, bouncy and impossible to sit still to.
He’s worked with Skibadee, DRS and Break and his 2020 track Creeper became a bit of a go-to for DJs looking to set off a crowd.
Fun fact: Before ever playing to a crowd, he worked in a record shop.
Javeon
Javeon has a voice made for late-night sound systems, first breaking through in the R&B and pop world. He worked with artists like DJ Zinc and contributed to Tory Lanez’ I Told You.
But his heart is in his Easton roots, and in recent years he’s made a name for himself in drum & bass, lending vocals into liquid tracks that blend emotion and atmosphere.
Fun fact: He started out as part of a Bristol youth collective called Kold Hearted Krew, alongside grime and dubstep heavyweights like Joker and Buggsy.
Natty Lou
Her transition from a world-champion dancer to the decks wasn’t exactly a planned one, but it’s one that makes perfect sense.
After her dance career was paused by the pandemic, she threw herself into mixing, bringing the same precision and performance energy to her DJ sets.
Fun fact: She performed at the 2012 Olympics as a dancer.
Dynamite MC
Gloucester-born and well-known in the Bristol scene, he first made waves with Roni Size & Reprazent – helping the group to win the Mercury Prize in 1997.
He’s hosted radio shows in the past, starting out at Pirate Radio and then hosting ‘Smooth Grooves’ on Kiss 100 and the Fresh 40 R&B and dance chart.
A razor-sharp lyricist and an electrifying stage presence, he’s still one of the most commanding voices in the scene decades on.
Fun fact: His tracks Bounce and After Party have been featured in video games like Madden NFL ’07 and Need for Speed: Carbon.
DJ Dazee
A key figure in the Bristol DnB scene for over thirty years. She co-founded Ruffneck Ting in 1993 – one of the city’s earliest jungle labels.
She’s continued to play across Europe and mentor new DJs, with appearances including CSA Magazzino 47 in Brescia, Italy.
Fun fact: She once played a headline set at Westfest dressed head-to-toe as Darth Vader.
A line-up stacked with talent
Also on the bill are Pola & Bryson, Soundgyal Saf, Crystal Clear, Duskee, T & Sugah and more — making this one of the most stacked drum and bass line-ups the city will see all summer.
The festival takes place on Saturday, July 26 from 1pm to 10:30pm at Bristol Harbourside. Tickets start at £35.
Main photo: Hedex
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