CrowdMateFor the London live week running Thursday, September 10 through Sunday, September 13, the defining club-scale proposition arrives at 12 noon on Saturday, September 12. Waterworks Extended takes over The Cause for a 36-hour programme spread across seven spaces, recasting a festival weekend as a concentrated journey through the Royal Docks venue. The Saturday listing is the entry point in CrowdMate’s calendar, led by Zaltsman and joined by a vast cast of selectors, live acts and carefully billed pairings. This is a guide to the Saturday opening stretch, with the larger event carrying through Sunday.[1][2][3][4]
The distinctive part is the setting’s change of scale and address. Waterworks was due to take place at Gunnersbury Park across September 12 and 13, yet planning permission for the park’s usual event schedule remained pending. The organisers relocated the programme to The Cause on the same dates and retained the two-day design, framing the result as a one-off edition. The official festival page describes 36 hours of music across seven spaces, with outdoor programming by day and indoor rooms after dark. That shift gives this weekend a different kind of usefulness: one site, many routes, and a line-up built to reward choosing a lane for an hour before taking another.[1][2][4]
A Saturday programme built from connections
Saturday’s bill is shaped by a distributed, multi-artist narrative. Alex Kassian is marked for a live set; Octo Octa and Reptant also appear live. Around them, the programme is full of artist pairings that read as invitations to hear distinct working relationships: Bradley Zero with Erol Alkan, Christian AB with Craig Richards, Dyed Soundorom with Moxie, Raresh with Sonja Moonear, and OK Williams with Skee Mask. Sofia Kourtesis, Daniel Avery, Midland, Leon Vynehall, Priori, NIKS, Tia Cousins, The Trip and Zaltsman provide individual points of focus within that larger map.[2][3][4]
That organisation matters because the Saturday bill travels across several club vocabularies through separate rooms and tempos. There are figures associated with long-form dancefloor selection, adventurous back-to-back sessions, live electronic performance and harder-edged late-night material. The official listings foreground the same mix of individual names and partnered sets, so the sensible approach is to treat the programme as a sequence of decisions. Arrive with a few artists in mind, then leave room for the useful discoveries created by neighbouring rooms and overlapping currents in the bill.[2][3]
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The Cause becomes the weekend’s frame
The Cause is central to the story: its rooms and site shape the event. Its official schedule places Waterworks Extended across Saturday, September 12 and Sunday, September 13, while the venue identifies its address as 60 Dock Road, London E16 1YZ. Waterworks’ move brings an event conceived as an end-of-summer festival into an established electronic-music venue, and the seven-space format preserves the possibility of a day-to-night route. Time Out’s listing similarly describes a mixture of indoor and outdoor rooms, confirming the event’s unusual physical design for this edition.[2][3][4]
For a Saturday attendee, the practical advantage is clarity: the programme begins locally at 12 noon on September 12 at The Cause, then continues into the following day. Set times were still to follow when Waterworks published its relocation update, and the organisers say artists remain aligned with their originally booked day. Check Waterworks and The Cause’s official pages again before travelling for final schedules, entry guidance, tickets and any venue updates.[1][2][3]
These concerts happened on 12 September 2026
The next dates at these venues: The Cause
Sources
- Waterworks Extended: Venue Change Announcement — Waterworks Festival
- Waterworks Festival: Waterworks Extended 2026 — Waterworks Festival
- What’s On: Waterworks Extended — The Cause
- Waterworks Festival — Time Out London