What makes this anniversary different from a lineup dump?
The Warehouse Project turns 20 this year, two decades since its first season ran out of the old Boddingtons Strangeways Brewery in 2006. Most clubs mark a round number by stacking a poster with extra headliners and calling it a day. WHP is doing that too: its 2026/27 season runs September through January at Depot Mayfield, with confirmed takeovers from Solomun on September 25, Overmono on October 30 and Tiësto on December 11, alongside previously booked names like KI/KI, Hannah Laing and Duke Dumont. But the actual anniversary programme is built around something clubs almost never bother with: an archive.
Why shoot a Manchester rave documentary on nearly extinct film stock?
The centrepiece is 'Twenty Years In Manchester,' a six-minute documentary directed by Leigh Powis, shot over three nights around the city and cut with footage and soundbites from real WHP partygoers and staff. Part of it was filmed on some of the world's last remaining rolls of Kodak Ektachrome, an analogue slide film that Kodak effectively discontinued and that has since become close to impossible to source. It premiered online on May 29, with Apple Music subscribers getting access 48 hours early.
"Reaching 20 years is a huge moment for us," says WHP co-founder Sam Kendal.
What else is in the vault?
Apple Music Club is hosting a dedicated vault of previously unreleased WHP DJ sets spanning the full two decades, alongside new WHP26 mixes recorded in Spatial Audio. A new podcast series digging into WHP's history is also part of the rollout, and a print magazine featuring affiliated artists and staff lands this autumn. Over the summer, a free outdoor photography exhibition ran at The Avenue in Spinningfields, pulling together 35mm frames, Polaroids and contact sheets from two decades of nights nobody thought to properly archive until now.
