Lock n Load

Lock N Load Events is a forward-thinking and innovative independent company with collectively over 30 years of experience in music and club culture. Run by some of the industry’s most respected figures. They pride themselves on exclusive ideas and individuality, and every event is carefully selected and developed. Whether it’s a 100 capacity label showcase at a pub, a self-contained warehouse party or a festival for 40,000 people; each event is professionally run and managed with attention to detail.

Since its inception in the spring of 2006, Lock N Load Events set the bar high for London club shows and inner-city festivals. The hub of our nightlife activity centres around the award winning summer festivals South West Four and Get Loaded in the Park (20,000 capacity per day) – taking place on the August Bank Holiday weekend on Clapham Common, London. Five years on from their introduction to the festival calendar both these outdoor events have now firmly established themselves as two of the most important and influential independent festivals in the capital, if not the UK.

2008’s two-day festival again sold out for the fifth year in a row and was easily their biggest event to date with musical icons Iggy & The Stooges, The Hives, Kate Nash, Gossip, Carl Cox, Danny Tenaglia and Sven Vath amongst the headline acts. In 2007, Lock N Load Events hosted a staggering five festivals in total... doubling up South West Four and Get Loaded in the Park in Cardiff across the same August Bank Holiday weekend (for the 2nd year in a row), plus promoting the acclaimed boutique festival Electric Gardens down in Kent.

On a club level, through Music Director Danny Newman, Lock N Load Events were responsible for the output of the legendary Turnmills nightclub before its closure. Turnmills’ flagship event The Gallery – London’s biggest Friday night event, can now be found weekly at Ministry of Sound – London’s biggest club, whilst fellow former Turnmills party Together – the scene’s leading rock n’ rave specialist is now held at Scala. Other key past and present Lock N Load Events include house session PUSH, which can be found on a boat, a warehouse or at KOKO feat. David Guetta, Armand van Helden etc... plus John Digweed’s awe-inspiring Bedrock parties, April’s mega two day Carl Cox & Friends extravaganza, the first ever Swedish House Mafia event with Axwell, Ingrosso & Angello at KOKO, Release Yourself with Roger Sanchez at KOKO, drum n’ bass tear up Alchemy at Ministry of Sound and Radio 1’s Grooverider’s big comeback gig @ KOKO. In addition, this year Lock N Load Events was asked to curate Lovebox’s backroom party at Eden, as part of Pete Tong’s new Wonderland venture in Ibiza.