Worried About Henry, Drumsheds.
Wilkinson and 40 acts, three rooms.

Worried About Henry, twelve years converting the UK

If you follow the British drum & bass scene from a distance, the name has almost certainly scrolled past you without ever quite landing. Worried About Henry, WAH to anyone who goes every month, started in Liverpool in 2014 with the modest ambition of putting dnb into clubs across the north of England. Twelve years on, the outfit programmes in more than twenty cities, operates under the Louder Entertainment banner, and took home Best Club Event at DJ Mag's Best of British Awards 2023.

The trajectory reads like a textbook in patient growth. Club residencies across Academy Music Group venues, stage takeovers at Parklife, an annual date with The Warehouse Project in Manchester, an Ibiza residency, an outpost in Malta, and for a few seasons now an in-house festival, WAH In The City, pitched on Silverworks Island in east London. Last July that 2026 edition was headlined by Pendulum live and Andy C. This is a promoter that has booked Chase & Status, Shy FX, Sub Focus, Hybrid Minds and Dimension under its own logo.

Drumsheds: 15,000 people inside an old furniture store

The venue deserves a paragraph of its own, because it is half the draw. Drumsheds fills the 608,000 square feet of the former Tottenham IKEA in Edmonton, shut in 2022 and picked up by Broadwick Live, who turned it into the largest nightlife space in London. Fifteen thousand people, three halls bluntly named X, Y and Z, warehouse ceilings and an acoustic that makes no apology for it. The place opened in October 2023 and within two seasons became a compulsory stop for the capital's large-scale electronic productions.

For a media outlet that films, that is a very particular playground. No sunset over the sea, no pine trees like at Family Piknik, just concrete, haze and walls of light. That contrast is exactly what we were after following a summer spent shooting outdoors in the south of France.

Four sold-out shows in a row, same room

WAH and Drumsheds have been repeating themselves since 2023, and that is why this date matters. The first one, in November 2023, was billed as the biggest indoor show in their history: Andy C on top, flanked by Sub Focus, Bou, Kanine and Kings Of The Rollers, spread across all three rooms. Sold out.

The following year the crew marked ten years in the same building with Hybrid Minds closing and a bill that swept the whole spectrum, from the most melodic liquid to the roughest jump up, with Sigma, Serum and S.P.Y in the mix. Then in October 2025, Dimension played his first London headline since Wembley Arena, backed by Netsky, Friction, Metrik, Camo & Krooked, A.M.C, Technimatic, DRS and LSB. As things stand, the last four editions have all sold out. The fifth is usually the one where tickets vanish before the lineup is even fully announced.

Wilkinson, fifteen years of hits and a fifth album

Mark Wilkinson belongs to that generation of London producers who dragged drum & bass out of the rave and into the charts without selling it out. Schooled at Ram Records and Hospital, two labels that sound nothing alike and neatly explain his split between steamroller pressure and melody, he broke through in 2013 with "Afterglow" and Becky Hill's vocal. The track hit number eight in the UK, went triple platinum, and became one of the very few dnb records everybody knows without knowing it is dnb.

Then came "Half Light", "Dirty Love", three solo albums, a joint project with Sub Focus, and his own label Sleepless Music in 2021. This year he released Infinity, a fifth record of fourteen tracks pulling in one direction towards the bluntest dancefloor material and in the other towards distinctly more experimental textures. A heavy touring schedule came with it: Tomorrowland, Boomtown, Pukkelpop. Watching him carry that repertoire through the main room of a fifteen-thousand-capacity hall is the format this music was written for.

What to expect from the lineup

As we write this, the poster says one thing only: Wilkinson, over forty more acts, three rooms. The rest will land in phases, as WAH always do it, with a sign-up for the presale. The back catalogue still gives a fairly precise picture of the mechanics: a main room for the headliners and big-format dancefloor business, a second for jump up and the rougher labels in the Born On Road vein, a third given over to liquid, rollers and finer selections of the Technimatic or LSB kind.

That split is what makes it worth filming. Going within a few minutes from a wall of bass in front of fifteen thousand people to a liquid set in a room of a thousand tells you more about a scene than any amount of writing. And for a French outlet covering bass music, walking into the biggest indoor dnb event in the UK is close to a pilgrimage.

We will be there

After Sónar in June and Family Piknik in early August, we are closing the summer to open a distinctly darker, faster chapter. It is locked in, we are going, and the idea of filming a full day of drum & bass inside an old furniture warehouse in north London excites us more than we care to admit. We will bring back footage, sets, and probably a little less hearing than we left with.

See you on 7 November at Drumsheds. Until then, we are waiting on those forty missing names like everyone else.