Terminal V London 2026 at Drumsheds: Line-Up by Room, Times and Tickets

Terminal V London is on Friday 23 October 2026 at Drumsheds, 19:00 to 03:00, across all three rooms, with Holy Priest, I Hate Models, 999999999 and Charlie Sparks in the X Room. It is the second London edition of the Scottish techno festival, and it arrives months after Terminal V's final Edinburgh weekend in spring 2026, which makes Drumsheds one of the brand's homes now rather than a tour stop. It is also one of only three Friday dates in the Drumsheds season with a 3am finish, and the hardest night on the venue's autumn calendar by some distance. This is the guide: the full line-up by room as listed by the venue, what Terminal V is and why it left Edinburgh, and how to survive eight hours of it.

Terminal V London 2026 at a glance

• Date: Friday 23 October 2026.
• Venue: Drumsheds, 6 Glover Drive, Meridian Water, London N18 3HF.
• Times: 19:00 to 03:00. One of three Friday dates in the AW26/27 season; most Saturdays finish at 22:30. Drumsheds says last entry on Fridays is typically 22:30.
• Rooms: X, Y and Z, all three open.
• Tickets: listed from about £41 on the ticket platforms at the time of writing; the venue page does not print a price.
• Age: 18+.
• Edition: the second Terminal V at Drumsheds, after the London debut in 2025, and the first anywhere in the UK since the final Edinburgh festival in spring 2026.

The line-up by room

Drumsheds lists the bill room by room, and the split is the useful part, because the three rooms are three different speeds.

• Room X: Holy Priest, I Hate Models, 999999999, Charlie Sparks, Cara Elizabeth b2b DJ Cringey.
• Room Y: Natte Visstick, Onlynumbers, Nikolina b2b KLOUD, Jowi, Lola Cerise, MARIEEEA.
• Room Z: Laure Croft, Pablo Bozzi, Juicy Romance b2b Helena Lauwaert, 6 SENSE, LAUZ.

The X Room is the headline hard techno of the moment: Holy Priest at the top of the bill; I Hate Models, the French artist who did more than anyone to bring trance melody back into hard techno; 999999999, the Italian duo known for acid-heavy live sets; and Charlie Sparks, the UK's own. Cara Elizabeth back-to-back with DJ Cringey is the fast, internet-native end of the same sound. The Y Room leans harder and faster still, with Natte Visstick's gabber-adjacent Dutch sets and Onlynumbers, and Nikolina with KLOUD. The Z Room is the one for anyone who wants Terminal V without 150 BPM all night: Pablo Bozzi's EBM and Italo, Laure Croft, and Juicy Romance with Helena Lauwaert. If you are a Sara Landry or Amelie Lens reader of this site, X is your room; if you are here from the donk piece, try Y first.

What Terminal V is, and why it is in London now

Terminal V was founded in Edinburgh in 2017 by Derek Martin and Simon McGrath, launching as a 2,000-capacity one-dayer at the Royal Highland Centre at Ingliston. It grew into one of Scotland's largest electronic music festivals: a two-day spring weekend across multiple stages with more than 100 acts and over 20,000 people a day, plus a Halloween edition in the autumn and, from 2024, a summer edition in Tisno, Croatia. DJ Mag named it Best Festival at its Best of British Awards in 2023, its Top 100 Festivals 2026 poll ranks it 22nd in the world, up 12 places, and fifth in the UK, and by its own count more than 250,000 people came through across nine Edinburgh editions.

Then it ended, at least in Edinburgh. The spring 2026 weekend at the Royal Highland Centre was billed as the last Terminal V in Edinburgh, and reports at the time pointed to the rising cost of policing and associated deployment on the site. What survives is the brand: the Croatian edition, back in Tisno from 15 July 2027, the London date at Drumsheds that debuted in 2025, a first Australian run in Sydney and Melbourne on 17 October 2026, and a new festival site for 2027 to mark ten years. That is why this October matters more than a normal touring date. Terminal V is between homes, and London is where it keeps its UK crowd until the new one opens.

The new home is Glasgow. Terminal V announced on 22 July 2026 that the festival moves there for its tenth anniversary, on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 June 2027, at what it calls "a never before seen industrial location", billed as a fully immersive outdoor festival. The site itself has not been named yet, and the festival says its Super Early Bird tickets sold out shortly after release.

Co-founder Derek Martin put it simply: "This may be the last Terminal V in Edinburgh, but it won't be the last in Scotland." The festival page at terminalv.co.uk has a register-interest link for Glasgow 2027, with line-up news promised in the coming months. For a London raver, Drumsheds on 23 October is the date this autumn; Glasgow is the weekend to plan for next summer.

It is also part of a wider story I keep writing about: policing is now one of the things that decides where dance music can happen in Britain. Its cost was cited when Terminal V left Edinburgh; a police application put Drumsheds' licence under review before Enfield Council kept its capacity at 14,999 in January 2025; and it is in the background of many of the closures in why London clubs are closing. A Friday at Drumsheds with a 3am licence is not a small thing to have secured.

Drumsheds on a Friday: what changes

Most of the AW26/27 season is Saturdays that finish at 22:30. Terminal V, Don't Let Daddy Know on 9 October and La Discothèque on 13 November are the three Fridays, 19:00 to 03:00, and the difference is everything for a techno bill: the peak of the night is midnight to 2am rather than 8pm to 9pm, the room is dark from the start, and the last train question becomes a night bus question. Drumsheds says Greater Anglia runs a frequent service to Meridian Water on event days, but for a 3am finish the venue's shuttle bus to Tottenham Hale, which runs until an hour after the event ends and costs £5 return booked in advance, and the Victoria line's Friday night service are the way home, and the old festival rule applies: sort the journey before the second room.

The venue has invested in exactly the thing this bill needs. DJ Mag's 2026 entry for Drumsheds notes that the d&b audiotechnik system gained extra bass and infrabass speakers and that the Y Room was redesigned, and hard techno at 140 plus is the genre most exposed by a bad system in a big shed.

How to do Terminal V London

• Buy early. The venue says the festival is back "by popular demand" after the 2025 debut, and prices on the ticket platforms rise through the tiers.
• Pick your room for the peak. X for the headliners, Y for the fastest sets, Z for the EBM and Italo detour. Moving between the main X Room and the 1,000-capacity Z Room at 1am takes longer than the set you are trying to catch.
• Earplugs. I say this in every hard techno guide and mean it more here: eight hours at these tempos on a refit system in a warehouse. Filtered plugs, not foam.
• Water and pacing. Drumsheds has free drinking water stations with cups; a 19:00 start with a 3am finish is a marathon, and the crowd that goes hardest at 8pm is the crowd leaving at midnight.
• Get home. Shuttle to Tottenham Hale, Victoria line night service. Drumsheds has a taxi rank and private-hire pick-up on site, but do not bet your night on a car from Glover Drive at 3am.

Terminal V against the rest of the autumn

If you want the hardest night of the season in either city, and the hard techno autumn guide ranks all six, it is this or Hannah Laing's doof with Teletech at The Warehouse Project on 16 October, a week earlier and a train away. Terminal V is bigger, later and more purely techno. The week after, Drumsheds flips entirely to elrow Horroween on Halloween, which is the same building as a completely different party. Both, with everything else in London and Manchester that month, are in the October 2026 club calendar, and for the rooms that do this every week rather than once a season, the best techno clubs in Europe guide is the longer list.

FAQ

When is Terminal V London 2026?

Friday 23 October 2026 at Drumsheds in London, 19:00 to 03:00.

Who is playing Terminal V London?

Room X: Holy Priest, I Hate Models, 999999999, Charlie Sparks and Cara Elizabeth b2b DJ Cringey. Room Y: Natte Visstick, Onlynumbers, Nikolina b2b KLOUD, Jowi, Lola Cerise and MARIEEEA. Room Z: Laure Croft, Pablo Bozzi, Juicy Romance b2b Helena Lauwaert, 6 SENSE and LAUZ, as listed by the venue.

What time does Terminal V at Drumsheds finish?

03:00. It is one of only three Friday events in the Drumsheds AW26/27 season with a 3am finish; most Saturdays end at 22:30. Drumsheds says last entry for Friday shows is typically 22:30, so check your ticket.

How much are Terminal V London tickets?

The opening tier was listed from about £41 on the ticket platforms at the time of writing. Prices rise through the tiers and the venue's own page does not print a figure.

Is Terminal V still happening in Edinburgh?

No. The festival held its final Edinburgh edition in spring 2026 at the Royal Highland Centre, with reports at the time pointing to the growing cost of policing and deployment. The brand continues with the Croatian edition, the London date at Drumsheds, a first Australian run in October 2026 and a new festival in Glasgow in June 2027.

Where is Terminal V festival in 2027?

Glasgow, on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 June 2027, at an industrial site the festival has not yet named. Terminal V announced the move on 22 July 2026, and a register-interest link for ticket news is on terminalv.co.uk.

Who founded Terminal V?

Derek Martin and Simon McGrath, in Edinburgh in 2017, starting as a 2,000-capacity one-dayer. It grew to a two-day, multi-stage festival with over 20,000 people a day at the Royal Highland Centre and is Scotland's highest-placed festival in DJ Mag's Top 100 Festivals 2026, at number 22.

How do I get to Drumsheds for a 3am finish?

Meridian Water station is a five-minute walk away for the earlier part of the night, but for the finish use the venue's shuttle bus to Tottenham Hale (£5 return booked in advance, running until an hour after the event ends) and the Victoria line's Friday night service. The address is 6 Glover Drive, N18 3HF.

Is Terminal V London 18+?

Yes. The event is 18 and over, and Drumsheds asks for valid photo ID: a passport, a foreign national ID card, a driving licence or a PASS card.

Sources

• Drumsheds official event listing for Terminal V London: date, times, rooms, age and line-up by room; Drumsheds what's on page and event pages for the season's Friday and Saturday times; Drumsheds FAQ (last entry, ID, free water, shuttle bus) and location page
• Terminal V: 22 July 2026 announcement of Glasgow, 5 to 6 June 2027, with the Derek Martin and Simon McGrath quotes; all-events page (Australia, London, Glasgow, Croatia); archive (250,000 fans across nine Edinburgh editions)
• DJ Mag Top 100 Festivals 2026 (Terminal V at 22) and Top 100 Clubs 2026 Drumsheds entry (sound upgrade and Y Room redesign); Mixmag, Forever Edinburgh and UK Festival Guides on the final Edinburgh edition
• DICE ticket listing for the opening price at the time of writing

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. For every date of the season, read the Drumsheds season guide.