Southsea Fest is back with first 40 acts for the 10th year

Mystery Jets, Little Comets, Eagulls, Coasts, Lucy Rose, Inheaven, Tellison, Get Inuit, & more

By Scott Williams | Published: Thu 2nd Jun 2016

Southsea Fest 2016

Saturday 1st October 2016
various venues, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO4 0JW, England MAP
£20

Daily capacity: 4,000

The first acts have been announced for this year's Southsea Fest which takes place on Saturday 1st October 2016 at multiple venues around Portsmouth.

After a one year hiatus, Southsea Fest is back and bigger than ever before with over 100 live acts due to appear in total, the first of which to be revealed are Mystery Jets, Little Comets, Eagulls, Kassassin Street, The Big Moon, Fizzy Blood, Coasts, Lucy Rose, Black Honey, Inheaven, Tellison, Get Inuit, Bear & the Woods, The Showhawk Duo, Me And The Moon, Glass, Aviv & The Eunuch Horn, Lucy Kitchen, Jalou, Shit Present, Kamikaze Girls, Petrol Girls, Bear Trade, Tibet, John, Minque, Dead Rabbit, Strange Cages, Wax Machine, WTVR, Damn Beats, Isla, Sacha, The Boy I Used to Be, Spaff Tits, YSNBWATTD, Battery Hens, Jesse Wylde And The Stallions, Paddy Taylor, and Devin-Jade.

For the line-up details and stage splits, as available see the Southsea Fest line-up page.

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Adult tickets are priced at £20. This event is for over 18s only - No refunds will be issued for under 18s.

Established in 2007 as the Southsea Mini Music Fest, the one day charity event sold out its 350 capacity, held in aid of promoter Josie Curtis' younger brother to record an album, post a bone marrow transplant. Since then a number of small events have led the way for the nautical-themed festival to develop, with all profits from the day still going directly to charity.

This year the event celebrates its 10th year anniversary, as an expanded 6,000 capacity event across multiple venues in Southsea & Portsmouth. For the first time the Pyramids venue will be programmed during the one day event, which includes over 20 live music spaces, all accessed with one wristband - while a brand new shuttle bus service will ferry people across the town.

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