Dubstep pioneers Skream & Benga headline the first DIA/LOG at Drumsheds, a day of UK bass, garage, grime and jungle created by Spotify with the venue.
Skream & Benga, two of the Croydon producers who first shaped dubstep, headline the first Spotify DIA/LOG at Drumsheds in Meridian Water on Saturday 17 October 2026. Spotify created the series with the venue, and this day is given to UK bass.
The pair met as teenagers at Big Apple Records in Croydon, the shop at the centre of dubstep’s first years, where Hatcha played their dubplates. Skream’s “Midnight Request Line” followed in 2005 and became the genre’s best-known crossover record.
With Artwork the pair formed Magnetic Man, whose 2010 debut album reached number five in the UK. Their Rinse FM programme became The Skream and Benga Show that year and moved to national radio a year later. Skream has worked mainly in house and disco since 2013.
The day runs across the X and Z rooms and gathers the scenes that fed dubstep. SGT Pokes and Emily Makis play beside Skream & Benga.
LTJ Bukem and Shy FX play for jungle and drum and bass, MJ Cole for garage, and D Double E and Flowdan for grime. Digital Mystikz play too, the duo whose Coki made the 2008 single “Night” with Benga.