Drumsheds takes product launches, brand experiences, exhibitions, conferences, awards dinners, fashion shows and filming, for 450 up to 15,000 people. The warehouse venue stands at 6 Glover Drive in Meridian Water, in the Upper Lea Valley of north London, and offers four event spaces across 608,000 sq ft.
Seminars and company events
Corporate users come here for scale. A conference or an awards night can take Room Y, a 2,500-capacity hall with a built-in stage, PA, power and rigging, while a launch or brand experience for several thousand people can use Room X or the Gallery. Room Z, for 450 guests, can be booked on its own for a smaller gathering or used to link Rooms X and Y. Exhibitions and trade shows can spread across the open floor of the Gallery, and fashion shows and ticketed culture events use the same infrastructure.
Hire runs from 8am to 1am, which leaves a full day for the build, a daytime program and an evening event. The spaces can be blacked out and branded, and an outdoor area is available for arrivals, catering or activations.
Rooms and capacities
Room X is the main hall: 109,813 sq ft for up to 15,000 people, with an in-house stage, PA, rigging and dressing rooms. Room Y holds up to 2,500 people with a built-in stage, PA, power and rigging. Room Z has power and rigging for 450. The Gallery, on the second level, covers 6,174 square meters and takes up to 5,000 people with full power and rigging. Used together, the spaces let one event hold a plenary, a breakout or exhibition zone and a reception without moving guests off site.
The venue describes its look as clean and brutalist, a large-scale warehouse that can be dressed for each event. It also serves as a filming location and unit base for productions.
Catering
The venue does not publish a catering offer. Shared dining appears among its formats for awards and dinners, so menus and service are arranged with the events team for each hire.
History and setting
Drumsheds sits in the Upper Lea Valley, one of London's largest regeneration areas, on a site the venue describes as once a stretch of silent warehouses. It is run by 9.8, a registered charity, and also hosts public ticketed music and culture events.
Getting there
Meridian Water station is about five minutes' walk away, with Greater Anglia trains from Liverpool Street in about 20 minutes and from Stratford in about 30. From the Victoria line, guests change at Tottenham Hale for Meridian Water. Buses 341 and 192 stop on Glover Drive, and taxis use a pick-up and drop-off point inside the venue. The site lies next to the North Circular. For public events the venue asks guests not to drive, as parking restrictions are enforced on the surrounding roads.
