Annie Mac brings Before Midnight to the Great Hall at Alexandra Palace on Saturday 12 September 2026. The floor is phone-free by rule and the night ends before midnight.
Annie Macmanus presented flagship music shows on Radio 1 for seventeen years, which for most of that time made her the single most consequential voice in British dance music: a record she played on a Friday night was a record with a career. She left the station in 2021 and has not slowed down. Her first novel, Mother Mother, was published that year and became a bestseller, a second book followed, and she runs a long-form interview podcast alongside a DJ diary that still takes her to the main stages.
Before Midnight is what she built afterwards, launched in spring 2022 on a premise aimed at the very large number of people who love clubs and can no longer do four in the morning. The night starts early and finishes before midnight, and the floor is phone-free by rule rather than by request. It sells out in seconds.
It comes to the Great Hall at Alexandra Palace on Saturday 12 September 2026, the largest room the series has taken, with an over-18 door. The scale is the interesting part: a format designed around leaving early has grown into one that fills a hall built for ten thousand people, which is a fair measure of how many Londoners had quietly given up on the alternative. The over-18 door is the only conventional thing about it.