# UNKLE SOUNDS

> For the past 30 years, James Lavelle has been at the forefront of global club… UNKLE SOUNDS at (Le) Poisson Rouge in Downtown. Dec 16, 2026 · 1 date listed.

- Venue: [(Le) Poisson Rouge](https://bronder.nyc/jazz/clubs/le_poisson_rouge.html.md)
- Address: 158 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012 ([Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=158+Bleecker+St%2C+New+York%2C+NY+10012))
- Neighborhood: Downtown
- Status: Dec 16, 2026 · 1 date listed
- Section: [NYC Jazz Clubs](https://bronder.nyc/jazz/index.html.md)
- Web page: https://bronder.nyc/jazz/clubs/le_poisson_rouge/unkle-sounds.html
- Markdown: https://bronder.nyc/jazz/clubs/le_poisson_rouge/unkle-sounds.html.md
- Last updated: Nov 05, 2026 at 06:51 AM

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- Venue: (Le) Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012 ([Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=158+Bleecker+St%2C+New+York%2C+NY+10012))
- Run: Dec 16, 2026
- Tickets: https://kyd.to/lmZJHwtA
- Source: https://lpr.com/lpr_events/unkle26nyc/

For the past 30 years, James Lavelle has been at the forefront of global club culture. A polymath known as much for his eclectic DJ sets as his production work with UNKLE, Lavelle has been lauded as a highly influential tastemaker and musical curator. His music career began as a DJ in Oxford. Aged just fifteen at the time, Lavelle started his first club night, Mo’ Wax Please, deriving its name from the column of the same name that he regularly contributed to music publication Straight No Chaser. He would later relocate from Oxford to London, where he established the Mo’ Wax label in 1992. Mo’ Wax would soon be at the forefront of trip hop, turntablism and alternative hip-hop. No mere record label however, Lavelle saw it as a platform for his varied creative interests. “I wanted it to be a cultural lifestyle base,” he recalls. “I wanted to create a kind of universe, really. I wanted it to be about art and music, and all those connections in the world from which I was coming. I wanted to have a record label and make films, have a gallery, and create this kind of cultural force, really, in art and music.” Lavelle’s first few years in London saw him taking up a residency at The Fridge for Gilles Peterson’s Talkin’ Loud. The partnership would see the duo starting their own legendary Monday night club session, That’s How It Is, at Bar Rumba on Shaftesbury Avenue and led to Lavelle becoming a major fixture of London’s burgeoning club scene. He soon found himself becoming a much sought after DJ talent across the UK, playing the likes of The Blue Note and Plastic People to Ministry of Sound and Cream. The opening of Fabric in 1999 proved to be a major turning point in his DJ career, leading to Lavelle taking up a residency and starting the iconic FABRICLIVE, which lasted for five years. Alongside his time at Fabric, Lavelle went on to serve as resident at several of the world’s top nightclubs including amongst others, Zouk, Womb, Watergate, and Space. He was one of the first DJs to play China and Eastern Europe and has played in all six inhabited continents and continues to tour as a DJ across the world’s most iconic festivals and venues. 1

Upcoming dates:

- Wed, Dec 16 at 07:00 PM — (Le) Poisson Rouge

## Also on at (Le) Poisson Rouge

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- [JAMES FELICE](https://bronder.nyc/jazz/clubs/le_poisson_rouge/james-felice.html.md) — Sat Jan 23 at 6:30 PM
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