By Katie Isham.
On Sunday 29th March the streets of the city will be filled with freewheeling, joyful community.
DJ Dom Whiting brings his iconic Drum & Bass on the Bike to Southampton.
If you’ve heard of this, you’ll probably be greasing your chain and dinging your bell already. If you haven’t heard of it, allow me to ease on the brakes and explain.
Dom leads the movement of the masses through the streets; from a specially adapted bike adorned with DJ decks, he cycles through the city and we follow. If you’ve got wheels, join the procession: bikes, skateboards, rollerblades, unicycles… Or you can keep up on foot; it’s not a race, it’s an experience.
He plays the music and if you’ve got a speaker, you can lock in to share the set on the move, but there are several riders with speakers throughout the crowd to keep the noise and the energy moving. The crowd spans the spectrum of life: young and old ride and vibe side by side.
There honestly is nothing else like it: hundreds of people coming together to traverse the streets, setting off confetti canons, raving like it’s the 90s, stopping traffic, smiling at everyone around you, pedalling down the avenue as a cycling army, all on a spring afternoon. As Dom’s website states, “It’s a community driven explosion of positivity and high energy music.”
Dom plays cities throughout the world and our fair city is to be his first UK ride of 2026. If this sounds like movement you want to be part of, meet at 2pm at Guildhall Square on Sunday 29th March – surely the best way to herald the start of British Summer Time. It’ll also be streamed live if you can’t make it in person.
This is a thing, a movement, a phenomenon. You’ll be talking about this for years to come. This is the most fun you can have on two wheels: saddle up Southampton, we’re going raving on a Sunday afternoon!
For more information, visit: Dom Whiting
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