Ground Control’s Jon Drape launches Engine No. 4

“It’s not a rebadged version of Ground Control”: Jon Drape co-founds event production company Engine No.4, with clients including Kendal Calling, Snowbombing and Parklife

News By | 8 November 2019

Engine No. 4: (l to r) Sheal-Barrett, Gee, Drape and McHugh © Sebastian Matthes

Event production veteran Jon Drape has launched Engine No.4, a new production company headquartered in Manchester, UK, as he retires the Ground Control brand. The new company counts Parklife, Snowbombing Austria, Bluedot, Kendal Calling, Lost Village, Depot at Mayfield and the Warehouse Project among its clients.

Drape, former MD of Ground Control Productions, director at Broadwick Live and founder of Festival Safe, forms part of a core team of equal partners with Tommy Sheals-Barrett (Back On Your Heads Ltd),…

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