Vice City Is Real This Week: Rockstar's Festival, The Vault and a Party Called CircoLoco Records Radio
By MNEEMO7 min read
FIG. 01 · OCEAN DRIVE, MIAMI BEACH, THE REAL CITY BEHIND VICE CITY. Photo: chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
GTA VI: The Festival line-up, The Vault and the CircoLoco Records Radio night at Club Space: what Rockstar runs, what it does not, and the UK DJs playing.
GTA VI: The Festival is the official one: Rockstar Games and PlayStation, Saturday 21 November at Mana Wynwood in Miami, eleven billings on two stages including Prospa b2b Skream and a Justice DJ set, with tickets sold by a lottery that closed on 10 November. Everything else this week is run by venues or a label. E11EVEN is NINE1NINE until 6 December, and Club Space becomes The Vault from 20 to 22 November, ending on a Sunday night called CircoLoco Records Radio: the name of a party, not a station Rockstar has announced.
Official, venue-run, or wearing the name
GTA VI is out on Thursday 19 November, and Miami is treating the weekend after it the way it has treated March since the Winter Music Conference began in 1985: one main event, with the clubs partying in its slipstream. The difference is that the main event belongs to a games publisher, and the clubs are dressing up as places from the game.
- OfficialGTA VI: The FestivalSat 21 Nov, Mana Wynwood, two stagesRockstar Games with PlayStation, produced by the III Points team
- Venue-runThe VaultFri 20 to Sun 22 Nov, Club SpaceClub Space, borrowing a nightclub name from the game
- Label nightCircoLoco Records RadioSun 22 Nov, Space Terrace, 11pm into MondayCircoLoco Records at The Vault. Not an announced station
- Venue-runNINE1NINEE11EVEN Miami, 6 Nov to 6 Dec, launch party Fri 20 NovE11EVEN. Its press release does not mention Rockstar
Only the first card carries Rockstar's name. Beebom put it plainly on 5 November: "neither event is part of Rockstar's official GTA 6 promotion." That does not make the club nights fake. It makes them what most big Miami weekends are: promoters who can read a calendar.
Rockstar's festival is the soundtrack, played live
Read the festival bill next to the music Rockstar has already released and it is the album on a stage. Travis Scott has "RHYNO", Cardi B has "Don't Chart", Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso are on "Sexy Magic", Metro Boomin is on Yung Lean's "That's It", and Justice are scoring the game and made the launch trailer's "Flower in a Hurricane". Their slot is billed as a DJ set; the score story covers the music itself.
The part a DJ notices is the format. Next to the Cactus Jack block and Cardi B sit three back to backs: Nick León b2b DJ Python, The Dare b2b Fcukers, and Prospa b2b Skream. Festivals built on rap headliners rarely book b2bs. Clubs do. A b2b is two selectors reading one crowd and pushing each other, and someone on Rockstar's side wanted that between the headliners.
Prospa b2b Skream is the one I would cross the site for. Both are CircoLoco Records artists: Prospa's Free Your Mind was the label's first album, and Skream gave it its third release, The Attention Deficit EP. It is also two generations of British rave in one booth: a Leeds duo from the current revival, and a Croydon dubstep originator who has played house and disco since 2013. Expect it to run hotter than anything around it.
The Vault: three nights, several line-ups
Club Space started it on 4 November by swapping its exterior banner for one reading "The Vault", captioned "Vice City's newest mission is loading". Rockstar "has not separately confirmed the venue as the exact real-world counterpart" of the game's club, as EDM House Network put it. The Sunday belongs to CircoLoco Records: the Terrace from 11pm into Monday morning, tickets from $60 on DICE, 21 and over. Who plays depends on which site you read.
| Source | Night | Names reported |
|---|---|---|
| Wololo Sound, 5 Nov | Sun 22 | Carlita, Chloé Caillet, Demi Riquísimo, DJ Tennis, Palms Trax, PAWSA, Prospa, Rossi., Seth Troxler, Skream, "among others" |
| EDM House Network, 5 Nov | Sun 22 | The same ten, plus Aline Brooklyn, Konstantin, Krol, Larry LateNight and Map.ache |
| Technoairlines, 10 Nov | Sun 22 | Carlita, Palms Trax, PAWSA, Chloé Caillet, Skream, Rossi. "and more" |
| Technoairlines, 10 Nov | Fri 20 and Sat 21 | Friday: Chris Lorenzo, Sammy Virji and a special guest (another listing on the page gives Chris Lorenzo, Ms. Mada, Danyelino). Saturday: "Not revealed yet" |
| Talkesport, RosenBerry Rooms | Sun 22 | Club Space's own page showed no line-up yet |
Treat every name as reported, not final, until Space posts its own running order. Six names appear on every reported Sunday list: Carlita, Chloé Caillet, Palms Trax, PAWSA, Rossi. and Skream. That is the CircoLoco family in one room, and a Sunday-into-Monday slot is as close as Miami gets to a DC-10 Monday.
CircoLoco Records Radio: a party, not a station
This is the name that will be misread all week. CircoLoco Records Radio first turned up in the radio menu of the August 2026 leaks. When Rockstar named its first six stations on 8 October (Cocoteo FM, Back Country Radio, AfroBank FM, The Chamber 106.6, Flash FM and Dirty South Classics), it was not among them. Since 4 and 5 November the label and Club Space have used it as the billing for the Sunday night. The fan site Leonida Hub says Rockstar re-shared the poster in its Instagram Stories on 4 November, but it gives no link and we could not find one.
What Rockstar has said is that more is coming: its post on X listed Dance and Electronic among formats with no station named yet, and Red Bull UK, among others, expects the full list at launch. A label Rockstar launched with CircoLoco in 2021 does not pick that name for a launch-weekend party by accident. A flyer is still not a radio dial, and until the game is out, CircoLoco Records Radio is a very well-named club night. The station hub will carry the full list once it is public, and the CircoLoco Records story has how the label got here.
The British names, and the London end of the week
Count the UK DJs and the weekend looks like an export. Prospa and Skream are on Rockstar's Saturday bill and on the reported Sunday at Space, which would make it two Miami nights running for both. Rossi., whose Boiler Room London debut landed in May, is on every Sunday list. Palms Trax has a foot inside the game: the press reports him as the voice of Palmsy, co-host of AfroBank FM.
What I like is how little of it is nostalgia. Vice City in 2002 ran on a 1980s songbook, and nobody on these bills is booked to play it. Rockstar and the clubs have booked the sound of now, and a good share of it is British.
London gets a smaller version. On Rockstar Support's midnight-local rule, as HuffPost UK reported it, the game unlocks here five hours before Miami. The UK release guide has times, prices and pre-load.
Selfridges' Vice City shop at the Corner Shop, 400 Oxford Street, plus Birmingham and Manchester: more than 50 items, and a Vice City Christmas window.
E11EVEN Miami runs as NINE1NINE, a month-long takeover that opened with Flo Rida on 6 November.
The Miami Heat play the Bucks on "A Night in Vice City".
GTA VI unlocks in the UK. Miami follows at midnight Eastern, 05:00 in London.
The Vault opens at Club Space, Chris Lorenzo reported. NINE1NINE holds its launch party, artist to be announced.
GTA VI: The Festival at Mana Wynwood. The Vault's Saturday is still unannounced.
The Vault presents CircoLoco Records Radio on the Space Terrace, into Monday. That is 04:00 Monday in London.
FAQ
Can I still get a ticket for GTA VI: The Festival?
Only through the waitlist on Rockstar's page: lottery winners were offered tickets on 11 November. Tickets are capped at two per person, cannot be transferred, and are for over-17s (21 to drink), with photo ID.
Will the festival be livestreamed?
Rockstar's festival page mentions no livestream, and no set times have been published.
Is there a midnight launch in a London shop?
None has been reported at GAME or HMV. Pre-orders could pre-load from 12 November, so for most people launch night is at home.
Sources
- Rockstar Games, "Grand Theft Auto VI: The Festival" event page, read 13 November 2026
- The Fader, GTA VI: The Festival announcement, 9 November 2026
- KeenGamer, "GTA 6 reveals its first six radio stations", 8 October 2026 (with Rockstar's post on X)
- Music Business Worldwide, Atlantic Records to release Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, 17 September 2026
- God is a Geek, GTA 6 launch trailer set to Justice, October 2026
- BroadwayWorld, Skream's The Attention Deficit EP on CircoLoco Records, 15 July 2022
- Wololo Sound, Space Miami, CircoLoco and GTA VI, 5 November 2026
- EDM House Network, "Vice City's CircoLoco Records Radio set to take over Club Space", 5 November 2026
- Beebom, GTA 6's NINE1NINE and The Vault nightclubs in Miami, 5 November 2026
- PR Newswire, E11EVEN Miami's NINE1NINE month-long takeover, 5 November 2026
- Technoairlines, "GTA VI Comes to Miami", 10 November 2026
- Talkesport and RosenBerry Rooms, reports on The Vault, November 2026
- Leonida Hub, GTA VI radio tracker, updated 11 November 2026
- Red Bull UK, GTA 6 soundtrack and radio guide
- Time Out London, Selfridges' Vice City shop, 10 November 2026
- HuffPost UK, GTA 6 UK dates, price, cast and music, 12 November 2026
- Kotaku and Miami Heat, "A Night in Vice City", 2 October 2026
- Wikipedia, "Winter Music Conference", accessed 13 November 2026
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