What is Mint XL, and where did it come from?

Mint XL opens its doors on September 25, 2026, inside the building that used to house PRYZM on Woodhouse Lane, in the heart of Leeds' Merrion Centre. The 2,500-capacity venue is the newest flagship from the team behind Mint Festival, Mint Warehouse and the original Mint Club, names that have anchored Leeds' electronic scene for two decades. The room has been rebuilt from the ground up, with a permanent Funktion-One Vero rig installed by the same audio partner Mint has worked with for roughly twenty years, plus new lighting and visual production across multiple rooms.

Why turn a PRYZM superclub into a Craig Richards room?

PRYZM was built for a different crowd: mainstream chart nights, student promotions, big-room pop. Mint is putting a very different kind of DJ behind the decks for its relaunch. Craig Richards, the Fabric resident whose sets run from disco to deep techno without a genre map, and Enzo Siragusa, the FUSE London co-founder who has spent the last decade rebuilding London's warehouse-party culture, are headlining opening night. That's a statement about what Mint XL wants to be: a serious room for serious selectors, not a scaled-up student night with better speakers.

"Mint XL is a huge step forward for us as a brand... bringing something of this scale directly into the heart of Leeds feels incredibly exciting.", Mint team, via Merrion Centre

Who else is playing the opening night?

The rest of the lineup leans just as hard into the underground: Japanese techno veteran Fumiya Tanaka, Perlon regular Sonja Moonear, Francesco Del Garda, Truly Madly, Berlin minimal fixture Prosumer, Laidlaw, Rich NXT, Voightmann, Foehn & Jerome Kinso and Isabelle Koci, alongside Mint XL residents Annie Errez and Bobby O'Donnell. It's a bill built for people who track b2b sets on Discogs, not one built to fill VIP tables. And with a multi-room venue also designed to host touring live shows, private hire and corporate bookings, Mint is betting the Woodhouse Lane building can carry both the club nights and the business that keeps a 2,500-capacity room solvent.