Welcome to Beachdown – the UK’s newest and most laid-back Festival.

Set in the beautiful designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty site of the South Downs just north of Brighton – Beachdown offers comfortable, secure camping including a quiet family camping area and a guarantee of having the driest underfoot site of anywhere in the UK due to the chalk base of the South Downs – rainwater simply seeps straight away. So sorry – no mud-baths here.

Beachdown is proud to bring you an eclectic line-up of music, film and comedy entertainment which captures in one weekend the full range of global and local influences that our host city Brighton has to offer.

With legendary international acts through to the best of Brighton bands performing on 4 stages we offer a total of 42 hours of entertainment across the August Bank Holiday weekend.

In addition we offer Award-winning cuisine from our selection of local food partners including Pintxo People and Terre a Terre. All food supplied at Beachdown is sourced from Brighton and the surrounding areas to fully involve local businesses, to stimulate the local economy and to give individual businesses the chance to get involved in what we want to be their event as much as ours.

So if you want unrivalled quality in music, food, drink, location and Festival experience there is nothing like Beachdown.

You may have tried the rest but you won’t go anywhere else once you’ve been to Beachdown.

Beachdown are proud of our goal to be as environmentally friendly as possible and thus are operating a dedicated park-and-ride shuttle-bus service around-the-clock to get all festival-goers to and from site quickly and efficiently.

As many of our shuttle-buses will be fuelled by cooking oil as possible and the No 77 bus route from Brighton also has an unrivalled environmental record and takes just 20 minutes from central Brighton to the site. A full timetable for all routes will be published shortly.

Arrival
Beachdown Festival is a ticket-only event and NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD ON-SITE. PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE PURCHASED YOUR TICKET PRIOR TO TRAVELLING AND PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT STRICTLY NO CARS WILL BE ALLOWED ON-SITE AND THAT THERE IS NO ON-SITE PARKING

By Car
Beachdown are operating a park-and-ride scheme from two designated satellite car parks, both a maximum 15 minute bus journey from the Festival site and both secured and marshalled 24 hours a day.

If you are arriving from the North and the A23 your BLUE car park is at Hickstead Showground and all exits from the A23 will be clearly marked.

If you are arriving from the East or West along the A27 your RED car park is at Shoreham airport

If you are arriving by car you MUST reserve a Car Parking Space to receive your Parking Voucher – click here for more details.

By Bus
Beachdown are chartering National Express coaches to operate a bus service from Central London to our Hickstead Park and Ride location with a total timetabled travel time of under 2 hours

By Train
Simply travel to Brighton Station and catch the No.77 bus direct to the site - it takes just 30 minutes

By Taxi
Simply take a taxi direct to site at a cost of around £12 for up to 4 passengers