BROADWICK LIVE TO CONVERT FORMER TOTTENHAM IKEA INTO 15,000 CAPACITY EVENT SPACE

DRUMSHEDS is the new 15,000 capacity venue from the team behind Printworks, Broadwick Live.

Credit: Henry Woide

DRUMSHEDS. Situated in Tottenham, North London and not to be confused with The Drumsheds, a former spot also owned by Broadwick Live which closed in January 2022, it will host up to 15,000 people and is billed as "a new culture space."

The vast warehouse was home to IKEA from 2005 until 2022 and spans 608,000-square-feet which will now be converted to host events, fashion shows, set builds and much more.

The first programme of events is yet to be revealed but Broadwick have plenty of experience of high level shows at large-scale venues. They also run the likes of Printworks, The Beams and Manchester's Depot Mayfield, but this new venue will instantly become one of the largest indoor venues in the capital.

Speaking with David Ellis at Evening Standard, Broadwick Live’s Simeon Aldred had this to say;

“This is the culmination of 20 years’ work, so we’ve put everything we’ve learned about what people respond to into it.” The 15,000 people “will spread out over three cultural spaces, and outdoor areas too. So we have a room for 8,000; another at 5,000, which is much more intimate, more like an intimate music venue. And then there’ll be a third room for people who want to do even more intimate experiences, and outside spaces too.”

“This is definitely the biggest venue that we’ve done, it’s about 600,000 square foot.”

“This is an ultra-hybrid venue: music, of course, but film, fashion, immersive theatre, we’re talking to sports brands about doing bits… Whatever people have an interest in, I think we’ll have something here.”What Broadwick are really doing, Aldred says, is “creating a centre for cultural gravity”.

The industrial feel of the space will be retained in the new design, a move that mirrors what Broadwick did when they converted a disused printing press in Rotherhithe into the popular Printworks.

Drumsheds opens in September. For more information, visit broadwicklive.com

Credit: Henry Woide

Credit: Henry Woide

Credit: Henry Woide