The Square Festival 2009

Friday 24th to Sunday 26th July 2009
Ynys Fergi, Borth, Aberystwyth, Wales MAP
weekend ticket £45

Daily capacity: 5,000

Last updated: Thu 1st Aug 2019

The Square festival is a music and performance arts festival which takes place from Friday 24th until Sunday 26th July, 2009 on the western coast of Wales, in a small seaside village called Borth, which is 5 miles north of Aberystwyth.

This year's headliners include Supergrass, The Beat, and Skindred, with support from The Scarlet Harlots, Aaron King Project, Red Stripe, The Bohemian Embassy, Gideon Conn, Marina (Nouvelle Vague), Jake Morely, Skank Sinatra, Guile, The Roseville Band, Neil Landstrumm, Mc Soom T, Derwyddon Dr Gonzo, Jazzsteppa, Run Riot, J. S. Bagri, Simon Bassline Smith, Drumsound, Froot, Red Stripe, Drymbago, Fuzia, 10 O'clock horses, Donde Stars, Lets Tea Party, Black Poets, Race Horses, Threatmantics, Cuba Cuba, Masters in France, Valleum, Navvy, Black Russian, and Arthur. For full line-up details click here.

The festival has expanded to three days of of live music over 5 stages and capacity has risen to 5,000. The festival site can be seen from Borth train station which has regular trains linking West Wales up to Shrewsbury and Birmingham.

There will be plenty of stalls at the festival, selling all kinds of things. Such as arts and crafts, vintage clothes and artwork, and of course - food and drink. Also, for the mornings before the festival starts, there is half price entry to the Animalarium for festival ticket holders. It's only a short walk from the site, and boasts animals from all over the world.

Tickets are on sale priced at £45 for a weekend ticket, and under 12's go free. To buy tickets, click here.

This year the festival will have a wide of fun things for people to do including a Human Zoo where people have to wear an animal costume to enter. There's also an attempt to break the world record for mass skinny dipping. The festival is also planning on using Gnome's (as in the garden figures) as a form of currency. Fun Police will be awarding Gnomes to people who look like their having fun. This year the festival will be running a 'Clothes Swap-Shop'.

The festival also offers street performances, workshops, some original festival innovations, a half pipe, Gentlemans club, a classical orchestra in a church, hammock island, cocktail bar, free camping, and parking. The site is around 250m from a 2 mile stretch of beach.

More information will be here when available.