Armin van Buuren brings A State of Trance to Drumsheds for its first indoor UK festival, marking twenty-five years of the trance institution he built.
Armin van Buuren, five times voted the world’s number one DJ, brings A State of Trance to Drumsheds in Meridian Water on Saturday 14 November 2026. Giuseppe Ottaviani goes face to face with him.
Van Buuren was born in Leiden in 1976 and started a weekly radio show called A State of Trance in 2001. It has run every week since and reaches close to 40 million listeners across 84 countries.
The show became a record label, a compilation series and then a touring festival, taking trance into stadiums and arenas across the world. It has passed its 1,000th episode.
Van Buuren holds the record for the most entries on the US dance albums chart, with 21. He is only the fourth trance artist ever nominated for a Grammy, and he was appointed to the Order of Orange-Nassau in the Netherlands.
This is the show’s first indoor UK festival, held 25 years after it began, across three rooms named X, Y and Z.
Ferry Corsten, Cosmic Gate, Ben Hemsley and Andrew Rayel lead a dozen more names on the rest of the bill.