What is New Frequency?
The Cause has run on one belief since it opened in 2018: a club is worth as much as the community around it. New Frequency carries that belief off the dancefloor and onto the airwaves. On Saturday 25 July, the entire Docklands site, the indoor rooms and the big outdoor courtyard under the Canary Wharf skyline, is handed to a roster of independent radio stations. Each one programmes its own stage with the residents and friends it has built a following on, day into night. The bill is organised by station, not by headliner, which is the whole point.
Why build a festival around radio stations?
Community radio is where the underground talks to itself. From Rinse to NTS to a generation of online stations, it is the scene's nervous system: the place a track breaks, a residency starts, a city's sound gets a name. New Frequency gathers six of those stations under one roof. Refuge Worldwide brings the Berlin axis, Seoul Community Radio the Korean one, Radio Alhara its border-crossing online community, the Head Stream channel from Bali's Potato Head, and UK platforms Keep Hush and Voices round it out, with more names promised. Putting them on the same site on the same day says the stations themselves, not only the DJs they play, are the headline act.
The lineup is not a list of artists. It is a list of stations.
How do you watch from outside London?
Every set is streamed live worldwide through a dedicated channel at thecausefm.world, so the courtyard in Docklands and a bedroom in São Paulo catch the same feed at the same moment. That platform is the real story. New Frequency is the launch event for The Cause's own broadcast arm, with more streamed shows and international collaborations lined up across the rest of 2026. General tickets went on sale at 9am on 17 June, after early access through the broadcast site.
