Portsmouth & Southsea Festival - CANCELLED 2008
Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th October 2008Castle Field, Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK MAP
£100 for all four days, £25 a day
Daily capacity: 8,000
Last updated: Tue 16th Sep 2008
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Due to poor ticket sales.
The festival will be giving full refunds. Each transaction has to be processed individually and they aim to refund all requests within 28 days. The organisers ask all those who bought tickets to ensure that their request for repayment is received by Monday 13th October.
For those that bought their tickets through the PS Festival website they are asked to email refunds@psfestival.co.uk with their paypal receipt and the transaction ID as the subject.
Ticket holders who purchased from New Theatre Royal, The Mayflower, Wightlink and One Tree Books should return their tickets to the appropriate outlet with proof of purchase from that outlet for a full refund.
Where tickets were purchased in cash, ticket holders are asked to email admin@psfestival.co.uk for instructions.
The event has one main stage in a large tent so festival-goers will not have to worry about the rain and mud as it is being held in a specially constructed tent called a Festival Tent that can hold over 8,000 people which has been used in the past for such events as the Radio 1 'Big Weekend'.
There is a different musical theme for each day, programmed as follows: Local and International Rock & Indie bands will be performing on the Thursday (9th) and the Saturday (11th), Friday night will be a dance night and the Sunday is being staged as a family day with music from the 60s, 70s & 80s.
Artists confirmed for Friday include headliners the Charlatans, and support act Shed 7. Saturday's headliners are Fun Lovin' Criminals. Sunday's line-up includes headliner Kim Wilde, plus other acts including Nick Kershaw, Howard Jones, Go West, and Bjorn Again.
Tickets will be priced between £25 and £40 per day depending upon the event. There was an early bird special offer where all tickets are £25. This offer was open for the first 2000 tickets. Four days ticket were priced at £100.
Note this event has no camping.
More information will be here when available.
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festival details
last updated: Tue 16th Sep 2008
plug pulled on Portsmouth & Southsea Festival
the festival is cancelled due to lack of ticket sales
the festival is cancelled due to lack of ticket sales
last updated: Tue 16th Sep 2008
Fun Lovin' Criminals to headline Portsmouth & Southsea Festival
plus Fightstar, Dave Spoon, Amusement Parks on Fire, and more
plus Fightstar, Dave Spoon, Amusement Parks on Fire, and more
last updated: Mon 8th Sep 2008