Join us for a night of conversation, anarchic performance, party, and piss-take to celebrate the publishing of Sports Banger: Lifestyles of the Poor, Rich & Famous, and the launch of the new ICA Scarf designed by Sports Banger, with a proportion of sales profits supporting the ICA’s future programme.

In conversation with Jonny Banger & Jeremy Deller

Live performance by Josh Caffé

Performance by Sharon Le Grand

Words from Lemn Sissay

+ special guest DJs

Sports Banger: Lifestyles of the Poor, Rich, & Famous is the complete story of Sports Banger so far. It charts the rise of the brand from an underground bootlegging operation to an all-inclusive, internationally recognized fashion house, record label, and socially conscious satirist in the mold of a modern-day Hogarth.

Sports Banger is a genre-defying, boundary-breaking fashion collective run by Jonny Banger, who interrogates British pop culture, fashion, class, and politics through the subversion and (mis)appropriation of branding.

Jonny Banger is an artist, raver and the founder of Sports Banger, a London-based clothing brand and rag-tag collective. In 2020, Jonny exhibited over 200 government letters defaced by kids and young people from across the UK at London’s Foundling Museum (where he was made a Fellow later that year) and received a Haringey Heroes Award from the Mayor of Haringey for his work. Sports Banger won the Innovation & Excellence Award at DJ Magazine's Best of British Awards 2020. Jonny has had work exhibited at the London College of Fashion, the Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna) and in other independent venues.

Jeremy Deller is an English conceptual, video and installation artist. Much of Deller’s work is collaborative; it has a strong political aspect, in the subjects dealt with and also the devaluation of artistic ego through the involvement of other people in the creative process. He won the Turner Prize in 2004 and represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2013.

Josh Caffé’s debut album Poppa Zesque has him collaborating with Quinn Whalley of Paranoid London and features additional production from saxophonist and vocalist Alex White of Fat White Family. Caffé offers the most undistilled representation of himself yet. But, in order to embrace Josh Caffé, we too must first spend a night with Poppa Zesque.

Lemn Sissay OBE FRSL is a British author and broadcaster. Sissay was the official poet of the 2012 London Olympics, chancellor of the University of Manchester from 2015 until 2022, and joined the Foundling Museum’s board of trustees two years later, having previously been appointed one of the museum’s fellows. He was awarded the 2019 PEN Pinter Prize. He has written a number of plays and books including Let the Light Pour In.

Ms Sharon Le Grand is a London-based performance artist, originally from Maghull on the outskirts of Liverpool. With the voice of an angel and the gob of a drunken sailor, she’ll soothe your ears before pulling them right off. They have performed at venues all over London including VFD, The Glory, Shoreditch Town Hall, The Karaoke Hole and the George and Dragon. They have been featured Dazed & Confused, i-D and Wonderland.