Drumsheds 2026 Season: Lineup, Dates, Tickets and What to Know

While London spent years mourning Printworks, the same team quietly built something even bigger up in Tottenham. Drumsheds, a 15,000-capacity former IKEA warehouse run by the people behind Printworks, has become the city's premier home for festival-scale electronic music, and after its biggest season yet it is about to open another, with the AW26/27 run starting on 19 September 2026. If you want a night that feels less like a club and more like an indoor festival, this is the room. What follows is a working DJ's read on the Drumsheds 2026 season: the dates, the rooms, how to get there and back, and how tickets work. Details were checked against the official listings shortly before publication, so confirm on the site before you book.

Drumsheds 2026 at a glance

• The building: a 15,000-capacity warehouse in a former IKEA store at Meridian Water, north London, programmed by Broadwick Live.
• The rooms: the X Room (around 10,000), the Y Room (around 5,000) and the Z Room (around 1,000).
• The season: AW25/26 was its biggest yet, more than 30 shows to March 2026; AW26/27 opens with Defected on 19 September, with 13 dates announced to the end of November.
• The shape of it: ten Saturdays, nine of them finishing at 22:30, and three Fridays running 19:00 to 03:00.
• Recent upgrades: a refined d&b audiotechnik sound system, an in-the-round Y Room and a backstage bar opened to the public, all for AW25/26.
• Tickets: sold per event; where an opening price is published it runs £29.50 to £40 plus booking fee, with Plus, Stage and VIP Table upgrades.
• Getting there: Meridian Water rail station is about a five-minute walk, with a £5 return shuttle bus from Tottenham Hale.

What is Drumsheds?

Drumsheds opened in October 2023 inside the former IKEA flagship at Meridian Water in the London Borough of Enfield, a 608,000 square foot industrial space repurposed into one of Britain's biggest clubs. Crucially, it is run by Broadwick Live, the company behind Printworks, Beams and Depot Mayfield. Rather than sit idle while Printworks was closed, Broadwick channelled six years of expertise into Drumsheds, leaving the raw industrial bones in place to create that signature warehouse atmosphere at a larger scale.

The result is a venue licensed for crowds approaching 15,000, which we have covered before in our look at Drumsheds one year on from its licence review. It is not a club in the traditional sense. It is an indoor festival site that happens to run year-round.

The Drumsheds 2026 lineup: what just happened and what is next

The 2026 portion of the AW25/26 season was stacked, and the heaviest run landed across three consecutive weekends. Teletech XXL took all three rooms on 20 February for techno, hardstyle and industrial sound; The Haçienda turned 21 February into a Manchester tribute with a live Haçienda Classical orchestra, Groove Armada, Todd Terry and Inner City; a sold-out Eastenderz followed on 27 February with East End Dubs back to back with SOSA and Hot Since 82 in Room X, the same East End Dubs whose Ibiza takeover we covered in our London-to-Ibiza pieces. ANTS brought its biggest UK takeover yet on 6 March with Loco Dice back to back with Green Velvet and TSHA, and Drumcode closed on 7 March behind Adam Beyer. Earlier dates took in MK, Jungle, Peggy Gou, Paul Kalkbrenner, DJ Snake, Amelie Lens and Eliza Rose, which gives you the range.

Defected opens the new run on 19 September 2026 with Armand Van Helden, Basement Jaxx, Groove Armada, Eats Everything back to back with Sam Divine, Roger Sanchez and The Shapeshifters, the label's third Drumsheds showcase after two sold-out editions. Thirteen dates have been announced, and they are set out in full below.

Every announced AW26/27 date

This is what the official what's on page carried shortly before publication. Treat it as a first wave: several bills still read TBA and nothing beyond November has been listed.

• Sat 19 Sep, Defected London. X, Y and Z, 13:30 to 22:30, from £40 plus booking fee. The rooms split between Defected, Glitterbox and DFTD.
• Sat 26 Sep, Steppers. X and Y only, 17:00 to 01:00, from £38.45 plus booking fee. A Drumsheds debut, and the only Saturday running past midnight.
• Sat 3 Oct, NEXUP: The Return. Max Dean, more TBA. X and Y, 15:00 to 22:30, from £38.45 plus booking fee. Listed 19+, the only door of the season that is not 18+.
• Fri 9 Oct, Don't Let Daddy Know. X Room only, 19:00 to 03:00. The Ibiza-born EDM brand's first London edition, with Ben Nicky, Dimitri Vegas, HALŌ, Krewella, Nicky Romero and R3HAB.
• Sat 10 Oct, Bugged Out: 2001&On. Three rooms, 13:00 to 22:30. A period piece built around 2001: 2manydjs, The Avalanches, Erol Alkan and Felix Da Housecat, plus Friendly Fires live.
• Fri 23 Oct, Terminal V London. Three rooms, 19:00 to 03:00. The Scottish techno festival's second edition here, first wave led by Holy Priest and Nikolina back to back with KLOUD.
• Sat 24 Oct, False Idols. Three rooms, 13:00 to 22:30. Fourth edition, Kim Petras and Cobrah live with Rose Gray. Pre-sale sold out, so it runs on sign-up drops.
• Sat 31 Oct, elrow Horroween Festival. Three rooms, 13:00 to 22:30, from £40 plus booking fee. Back after a two-year break, and elrow's fourth London Horroween.
• Sat 7 Nov, Worried About Henry. Three rooms, 12:00 to 22:30, from £29.50 plus booking fee, headlined by Wilkinson. Midday doors, the earliest of the season, matching the cheapest opening price on the calendar.
• Fri 13 Nov, La Discothèque. Three rooms, 19:00 to 03:00, from £38 plus booking fee. The disco imprint's tenth birthday, with Masters At Work, Folamour, Jayda G, Ron Trent and the La Discothèque Orchestra.
• Sat 14 Nov, A State of Trance. Three rooms, 13:00 to 22:30, Armin van Buuren leading. Billed by the venue as the first indoor ASOT festival held in the UK, marking the brand's 25th year.
• Sat 21 Nov, City Splash. Three rooms, 13:00 to 22:30, from £29.50 plus booking fee. Third edition, built around reggae, dancehall and afrobeats.
• Sat 28 Nov, FUSE 18th Birthday. Three rooms, 13:00 to 22:30. The London minimal and tech house institution takes the building for the first time; pre-sale opened 10:00 on 5 August, general sale 13:00 the same day.

Ten Saturdays, three Fridays, and a clear division of labour. The Fridays all run 19:00 to 03:00; the Saturdays are daytime shows, nine of the ten closing at 22:30, with only Steppers going past midnight. Where an opening price is published it sits between £29.50 and £40 before fees, a narrow band for bills this different in scale, which reads like the venue pricing the room rather than the headliner. Several of these brands also play Manchester in the same months, and our Warehouse Project 2026 guide tracks which ones and when.

What a 22:30 finish actually changes

The daytime Saturday is the most misunderstood thing about Drumsheds. If doors are at 13:00 and the lights come up at 22:30, peak hour is around 20:00, not 02:00. Openers are not playing to an empty floor; the crowd walks in at once on timed tickets rather than building across eight hours, so the usual arc inverts and you have to land the room fast. For anyone going, that means eating beforehand, treating the afternoon as the show rather than the warm-up, and buying one of the three Fridays if you want a genuine 3am night. The compensation for an early close is a Sunday that still exists.

The rooms and the 2026 upgrades

For the AW25/26 season the venue invested in noticeable upgrades, installing a refined d&b audiotechnik sound system, redesigning the Y Room with an in-the-round stage setup that puts the DJ in the middle of the crowd, and opening the backstage bar to attendees. For a venue this size, sound and crowd flow are everything, and those upgrades are aimed squarely at making 15,000 people feel like a coherent party rather than an aircraft hangar.

The floorplan, and why the room list on a listing matters

A two-room bill and a three-room bill are two different nights, so the room list is the first thing to read on a listing. Room X is the headline space and the only one every event on this calendar uses. Room Y is the low-ceilinged one, which holds the sound in. Room Z is the small one, with a caged DJ booth, and because it sits between the other two it catches passing traffic all night rather than needing a destination booking. The venue's own hire brochure quotes lower capacities for Y and Z than the event listings do, because those are layout-dependent figures for seated and production builds rather than standing club mode; our venue profile reconciles the two sets of numbers.

Everything else exists to move people between those rooms. The Stores is the connective spine, holding the main bars, a water station and, opposite the main bar on Level 1, welfare and medical. The Yard is outdoors, with the food traders and the designated smoking area, so it is where you find your friends when the main room is too loud to talk. Level Zero is the entrance, with the lockers, the info desk, merchandise and phone charging. X Room only, as Don't Let Daddy Know is on 9 October, means one giant stage and no second option; three rooms means genuine choice.

How to get to Drumsheds

This is the bit first-timers underestimate, because Drumsheds is not central. The official guidance is blunt: use Meridian Water station unless you are arriving by taxi or bus. Greater Anglia services run there from Liverpool Street, Stratford and Tottenham Hale, leaving a five-minute walk from the door, and if you are coming across town, Tottenham Hale on the Victoria line is the interchange to aim for. Our venue profile sets out the door-to-door routes in full.

Getting out of Meridian Water afterwards

One number explains the journey home. Meridian Water is not a normal London station: off peak it runs two trains an hour, a short shuttle to and from Stratford. Greater Anglia lays on extra services for Drumsheds nights, and has added stops at Northumberland Park and Meridian Water to clear crowds after events in the area, as RailAdvent reported. Even with those extras, clearing a 15,000-capacity building through one small station in one go is where the queue is.

The hedge is the shuttle bus, and it is the best five pounds you will spend on the night. Drumsheds runs coaches between the site and Tottenham Hale, using bus stop F outside the station and routing straight to a drop-off inside the venue gates, from roughly 30 minutes before the show until about an hour after it finishes. A return booked in advance through Kaboodle is £5; on the day you can pay contactless on board, but only for singles. The buses are wheelchair accessible and tickets are non-refundable.

Tottenham Hale is the interchange to build the night around for a second reason: the Victoria line runs night tube on Fridays and Saturdays, which makes a 03:00 Friday finish survivable without a taxi. Do not walk between the two, which the venue explicitly asks people not to do. There is no public parking and restrictions are enforced on the surrounding roads; cabs use a signposted pick-up point off Glover Drive, and accessible parking exists for Blue Badge holders who book ahead through the accessibility form. Meridian Water has step-free access by lift, 450 metres from the door, with stewards at the station on show days.

Tickets: timed entry, last entry and resale

There is no season pass. Every event is ticketed on its own, pricing tracks the lineup, and four details on the venue's own FAQ page do more damage to people's nights than anything else. Timed entry is the first: big Saturdays sell in waves, and a pre-1pm or pre-2pm ticket means what it says, because arriving late allows Drumsheds to void it or charge a late entry fee. Last entry is the second, typically 22:30 on Fridays and 17:00 on Saturdays. Read that against a 13:00 to 22:30 show and the trap is obvious: turn up at half four and you are fine, turn up at six and you have bought an expensive story about the traffic.

Third, ID. Challenge 25 applies, and only a valid passport, foreign national ID card, driving licence or Home Office approved PASS card is accepted. Expired documents are refused, and a name printed on a ticket must match the ID. Fourth, resale. When a show sells out, resale opens automatically on Kaboodle and Resident Advisor, the only two platforms the venue authorises, and tickets surface there as people release them rather than in one drop, so check back regularly rather than once.

Above standard entry sit three upgrade tiers, and they differ meaningfully. Drumsheds Plus buys fast-track entry, a raised viewing platform over the main stage, its own bar, a cloakroom and toilets closer to the floor. Stage tickets are the interesting one if you care about watching a DJ work: a backstage entrance, a view of the X Room from the stage itself, and a backstage exit at the end, which quietly solves the leaving problem above. VIP Tables add a host, table service, premium spirits, a cut-through to the X Room dancefloor and the Spotify Artist Lounge, with deposits refunded at 90 per cent on 14 days' notice, 50 per cent on seven and nothing inside a week. Anyone with access requirements should start with the Nimbus Access Card scheme, which runs a free Digital Access Pass valid three years and complimentary personal assistant tickets.

How a Drumsheds Saturday actually runs

Doors open into Level Zero, and the first thing that happens is a full body and bag search, a condition of entry rather than a spot check. Anything larger than a sheet of A4 does not come in with you, which makes the pre-booked locker the admin that decides your first twenty minutes. Medium lockers are £9 plus a 90p fee for one or two people, large £12 plus £1.20 for two or three, opened as often as you like with a code emailed in advance. They sell out, and inside 72 hours of doors you book direct with the locker operator rather than through Kaboodle.

The rule that shapes the rest of the day is no re-entry. Leave the site and you are not coming back, so the walk to the shops does not happen. The venue is cashless throughout. Free water points sit two to a level with cups provided, and a transparent empty bottle is allowed where an opaque or metal one is not. Free site-wide Wi-Fi, run with Nothing, matters more than it sounds when 15,000 phones fight over one mast.

Set times are the thing people get wrong. Drumsheds publishes them on the day, on its socials and on QR codes around the building, not a week ahead, so travelling in for one artist means committing to the day rather than a slot. Welfare and medical sits on Level 1 opposite the main bar in The Stores, staffed throughout, and the venue works with The Loop on harm reduction while running a zero tolerance drugs policy at the door. There is no dress code, but some toilets, bars and traders are outdoors in The Yard, so by November bring a layer you can dance in. The venue asks people to leave quietly at the end, which is worth honouring in a residential corner of Enfield that has already taken this building to a licensing hearing once.

Who actually runs the building

One structural detail rarely makes the listings. The site describes itself as a space managed by 9.8, a registered charity, number 1208298, whose remit is making culture accessible and giving local artists a platform. Broadwick Live promotes the music shows, but the venue-level operator is a charitable body that also runs flea markets, exhibitions and conferences in the same building. It is worth holding in mind alongside the venue's 2025 licence review, because the building's public case for itself is a year-round cultural one, not a Saturday-night one.

Drumsheds versus Printworks: the bigger picture

Here is the context that makes Drumsheds matter beyond any single night. When Printworks closed, the fear was that London had lost its flagship large-scale electronic venue for good. Drumsheds is the answer to that fear, and then some: bigger than Printworks, run by the same expert team, and proof that London's appetite for festival-scale clubbing is alive and well. With Broadwick also planning to reopen Printworks in 2026 and having launched Magazine Open-Air, a roofless riverside dancefloor on Greenwich Peninsula whose debut season includes a London first for Amelie Lens and Sara Landry back to back on 21 August, the city could soon have several giant Broadwick spaces running at once, an extraordinary statement about the health of big-room clubbing in a period when grassroots venues have struggled. Drumsheds is not just a great night out. It is a sign that the scale end of London nightlife has a future.

FAQ

Where is Drumsheds and how big is it?

Drumsheds is in a former IKEA store at Meridian Water in the London Borough of Enfield, north London. It holds around 15,000 people across three rooms, the X, Y and Z rooms, making it one of the UK's largest clubs.

Who runs Drumsheds?

Broadwick Live promotes the music shows, the same company behind Printworks, Beams and Depot Mayfield. The venue itself is managed by 9.8, a registered charity that also runs markets, exhibitions and conferences in the building. Drumsheds opened in October 2023.

What are the biggest Drumsheds 2026 dates?

The AW26/27 season opens with Defected on 19 September 2026 and runs 13 announced dates to 28 November, with elrow Horroween on 31 October, an A State of Trance London edition on 14 November and FUSE's 18th birthday closing the announced run. Last season's headline run was Teletech XXL, The Haçienda, Eastenderz, ANTS and Drumcode across three weekends in late February and early March.

What is the nearest station to Drumsheds?

Meridian Water station is the closest, a few minutes on foot; our venue guide covers the routes in full. Buses 341 and 192 also serve the venue.

What time do Drumsheds shows start and finish?

Most AW26/27 Saturdays run 13:00 to 22:30 and the three Friday shows run 19:00 to 03:00. Last entry is typically 17:00 on Saturdays and 22:30 on Fridays, and some tickets are timed for entry before 1pm or 2pm.

Is there a shuttle bus to Drumsheds?

Yes, between the venue and bus stop F outside Tottenham Hale, from about 30 minutes before doors until an hour after the show ends. A return booked in advance through Kaboodle costs £5, and the buses are wheelchair accessible.

Can you leave Drumsheds and come back in?

No, there is no re-entry once you leave the site. Bags larger than A4 are refused at the search, so book a locker: £9 for a medium, £12 for a large, plus a service fee.

How do tickets work for the AW26/27 season?

There is no season pass; every event is ticketed on its own. Above standard entry sit three upgrades, Drumsheds Plus, Stage and VIP Tables, offering fast-track entry, better views and dedicated bars. Sold-out shows reopen on the venue's authorised resale systems, Kaboodle and Resident Advisor.

Is Drumsheds connected to Printworks?

Yes. Both are run by Broadwick Live. Drumsheds was developed while Printworks was closed, and Broadwick plans to reopen Printworks in 2026, potentially giving London two giant Broadwick venues at once.

Sources

• Wikipedia, Broadwick and Venue Lab on Drumsheds' location, capacity, three rooms and 2023 opening
• True Underground, Electronic Groove and FLO London on the AW25/26 season lineup, the 30-plus shows and the 2026 venue upgrades; RA, Defected and the official Drumsheds events calendar on the AW26/27 season (opening 19 September 2026, with dates announced through November); Time Out on Broadwick's Magazine Open-Air riverside venue
• MusicTech, The Face and NME on the Broadwick and Printworks connection
• Official Drumsheds what's on and event pages for AW26/27 dates, rooms, showtimes, ages and prices; the venue's spaces, hire, location, FAQ, VIP and accessibility pages for capacities, transport, lockers and entry policy
• RailAdvent on Greater Anglia's extra Meridian Water services; Wikipedia on the station's off-peak service pattern

This guide is part of House of MNEEMO's ongoing coverage of the electronic and club music scene, written by London-based DJ and producer MNEEMO, with millions of streams to his name and a party series running through some of London's best clubs.