Alexandria

Digbeth, and staying there

Alexandria came up in Birmingham rather than passing through it. The city's Digbeth warehouse circuit is where the work started, and Lab11 — five internal spaces, a rooftop and an outdoor yard in a converted warehouse complex — is the room she keeps returning to. Her name appears on a Levels fifth-birthday bill there in October 2023, which is roughly where the listings trail begins: not a launch, just another Saturday on a local line-up.

That grounding shaped what she plays. The write-ups that have followed her describe the same territory each time: minimal and house, the stripped and driving end rather than the vocal or festival end. It is a sound Birmingham has a long claim on, and one that rewards DJs who can hold a room for an hour without a drop to hide behind. She has been described in the trade press as a master of those sounds, which is a generous phrase, but the bookings bear out the basic point — promoters keep putting her back on.

The You&Me route out

The label that carried her beyond the Midlands was You&Me, run by the Manchester producer Josh Baker, which has spent a decade building a following around minimal and tech house and which runs its own party brand alongside the records. Alexandria became a mainstay of it, and a veteran of its Five Under Five strand — enough of a fixture that by early 2026 she was being listed among the DJs to watch for the year ahead.

The gigs stacked up through 2025. She made her debut at MiNT Festival, and played for Pyramid at Amnesia in Ibiza, which is the sort of booking that changes an agent's conversation. Elsewhere the list runs through fabric and 93 Feet East in London, Chris Stussy's Amsterdam Weekender, and repeat sets at The Warehouse Project in Manchester. She opened 2026 with a You&Me night at 93 Feet East in January.

None of this arrived as a breakout moment. It reads instead as the slower version: a local residency, a label that adopted her, then European dates on the back of both.

Three records in a year

Until recently Alexandria was a DJ who did not release much. That changed in 2026, when she lined up three records. The first is an EP for Nothing Stays The Same, the imprint launched by the Doncaster producer Mella Dee — real name Ryan Aitchison — which opened in early 2026 with two of his own EPs, UK Minimal Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, pressed on vinyl through The Vinyl Factory. By February 2026 the label's stated plans named Huw Shipps and Alexandria as the first artists from outside Aitchison's own catalogue, alongside some Manchester names. For a DJ whose sets sit squarely in UK minimal, it is a close fit.

The second release is due on Gradient, a new label based in New York, and includes work with the vocalist Darnell, a friend she has been keen to put on a record. A third track was set for a label closer to home, still unnamed when she discussed the year's plans in August 2026.

Three records in twelve months is a modest catalogue by producer standards and a substantial one for a DJ who spent the preceding years mostly playing other people's music. It also changes what a booking means: a set that previously drew on the records she liked can now be built partly around her own.

Autumn 2026

The current run is short and both dates are big rooms. On Saturday 3 October 2026 she plays the You&Me takeover of The Warehouse Project at Depot Mayfield in Manchester, a twelve-hour session running 16:00 to 04:00 with last entry at 19:30. The bill carries around 38 names across the rooms, among them Seth Troxler, Enzo Siragusa, Shanti Celeste, Chloé Caillet, Sidney Charles, Dennis Cruz, Traumer, Sally C, Prospa and Josh Baker himself. The general-admission tier listed at £57.80 was showing sold out.

On Friday 6 November 2026 she is at SWG3's Galvanizers in Glasgow, 22:00 to 03:00, for L.P. Rhythm's room as part of FLY's Glasgow Weekender, sharing the booking with The Trip. Admission was listed at £36.50 and that tier had also gone.

Two sold-out warehouse rooms in five weeks, on bills where the top slots belong to DJs fifteen years into their careers, is a fair measure of where she currently sits: not headlining, but booked by the promoters whose headliners she is playing alongside.

What the nights actually are

There is no show in the production sense. Alexandria works inside whatever the promoter has built — the Depot Mayfield shell, the Galvanizers' brick and steel, Lab11's linked rooms — with the house rig, the house lighting and a slot rather than a set-piece. What she brings is selection and pacing across deep house, tech house and minimal, the three genres the Manchester date is billed under.

Her standing so far rests on rebookings rather than reviews: the coverage she has attracted describes the sound and the trajectory, not a specific night, and no review of an individual set has been published in the dance press. The venues themselves carry strong audience feedback — SWG3 averages 4.5 out of 5 across more than 7,400 ratings on Skiddle, Depot Mayfield 4 out of 5 across 679 — which says more about the rooms than the DJ, but the rooms are a large part of what these nights are.