The Drumsheds AW26 programme is here, and if you read past the headline names, there is a season worth paying attention to. Running September through December at the north London venue, the schedule packs in house, techno, dubstep, drum and bass, trance, disco, and reggae across a stretch of months that should keep the rooms busy well into winter. Some of these nights are returning favourites. Several are debuts. A few are, frankly, unmissable.

September and October: How the Season Opens

The season opened on 19 September with Defected London claiming all three rooms. Armand Van Helden and Basement Jaxx set the tone early. The Defected London Drumsheds takeover is the kind of large-scale house event that the venue handles well, and with Van Helden in the mix, it is not purely a nostalgia exercise.

The night that will draw the most serious attention from anyone with a memory of South London basements is 17 October. Spotify DIA/LOG brings Skream and Benga to Drumsheds with a lineup built to trace dubstep and UK bass from its earliest years through to its current shape. Alongside the headliners: Plastician, D Double E, SBTRKT, Jammer, Special Request, Flava D, Pangaea, Carre, and Surusinghe, among others. That is a genuinely considered bill, not a reunion stunt, and it reads like someone put thought into the full arc of the genre rather than just booking the obvious names.

The week before, on 10 October, Bugged Out! takes the venue with 2manydjs b2b Erol Alkan and The Avalanches. Don’t Let Daddy Know makes its London debut the day prior on 9 October. Max Dean’s NEXUP returned on 3 October after a well-received first run, and Terminal V arrives on 23 October.

False Idols lands on 24 October. Kim Petras and COBRAH headline, with VTSS, Josh Caffe, UNIIQU3, and a False Idols Ceremony featuring Rose Gray completing the lineup. The month closes with elrow’s Horroween Festival on 31 October, which needs no further explanation.

November and December: A Packed Close to the Season

November is dense. Worried About Henry brings an all-day drum and bass event. La Discotheque marks its 10th anniversary with Purple Disco Machine and Folamour. On 14 November, A State of Trance celebrates its 25th anniversary headlined by Armin van Buuren in what is billed as the first indoor A State of Trance festival held in the UK. City Splash follows on 21 November with Masicka, Spice, and Rampage Sound. FUSE rounds out the month on 28 November with its 18th birthday party, which the promoters are calling their biggest London show to date.

Tickets and full lineup details are on the Drumsheds website. The Drumsheds season 2026 is a broad church, as London club events’ autumn schedules tend to be, but the Skream and Benga night alone justifies clearing the diary for October.