John Summit, the Illinois accountant turned tech house headliner, brings the European arena tour for his second album, Ctrl Escape, back to The O2.
John Summit, the tech house DJ from Illinois, returns to The O2 arena in North Greenwich on Saturday 27 February 2027. He brings the European arena tour for his second album, Ctrl Escape.
John Walter Schuster was born in Naperville, outside Chicago, in 1994. He DJed in the college bars of Champaign and Urbana while studying accounting at the University of Illinois. In 2019 he lost his job at Ernst & Young and put his savings into music.
“Deep End”, released on Defected in 2020, became the longest-running number one on Beatport that year. He has since had two number ones on American dance radio and eight top ten entries on the dance songs chart.
Comfort in Chaos, his debut album, came out in 2024. Ctrl Escape followed in April 2026, built around his escape from corporate life. It adds melodic house, drum and bass and progressive house to his tech house.
His first O2 night, in September 2025, played to more than 20,000 people. The same month his own label and events brand, Experts Only, drew 50,000 people to Randall’s Island in New York.