A UK airport is set to be the site of a music and beer festival this summer, after a successful event last year.
It’s not uncommon for people to get themselves a pint at the airport, with some even turning their pre-flight beer into something of a tradition.
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However, at London Southend Airport, people turn up for the pints, without having any plane tickets booked.
Instead they stick around at the airport for its music and beer festival, which is due to take place for the second time this year.
This year’s Music and Beer Festival at the Vulcan will be held on Friday, August 2 and Saturday, August 3.
It’s held in the Vulcan Restoration Trust’s hangar at the airport and combines live music, street food and locally brewed beers.
Southend brewers Black Box and Maldon brewery Datum Attitude will have 35 different beers and ciders on offer between them for visitors to try.
Meanwhile, there’ll be a Pimms and prosecco bar and as well as another bar selling gin & tonics, along with a wide selection of cocktails and non-alcoholic drinks.
The festival also promises a “parade of excellent street food vendors” including Time To Thai Noodles, Gourmet Burger Bar, Brick Lane Bagels Stand and an ice cream and doughnut kiosk.
Among the bands confirmed for this year’s festival are Sons of Bourbon, Ruby Robinson & Jazz Quartet, The Long Run, Throw Back To The Future and Faux Fighters.
Other bands and solo artists are set to be added to the line-up, with seven hours of live music planned each day.
There will also be a tabletop shuffleboard and bar skittles as well as some outdoor axe throwing, along with several other activities and games.
Tickets are already on sale for the festival, at the price of £18 per day for adults and £4 for accompanied under-18s.
Tickets include a complimentary festival beer glass and £3 off your first pint with Black Box Brewery.
Each pint will cost £4.50 afterwards.
Southend isn’t the only airport in the world that has been turned into a place for parties.
Who’s playing which festivals this year?
Music festivals are a huge part of summer in the UK. Here’s who is playing at some of the biggest ones across the country.
Glastonbury
This year’s Glasto headliners include Dua Lipa, Coldplay, and Sza, while Shania Twain, Cyndi Lauper and PJ Harvey are among a number of other names to have been confirmed.
Isle of Wight
This year’s Isle of Wight festival will be headlined by The Prodigy, Pet Shop Boys and Green Day.
Reading & Leeds
Taking to the main stage at this year’s Reading and Leeds festivals will be Blink 182, Fred Again, Lana Del Ray, Liam Gallagher, Catfish & The Bottlemen and Gerry Cinnamon among others.
Latitude
Kasabian, London Grammar, Duran Duran, Keane, Rick Astley and Rag ‘n’ Bone Man are among those to be included in the lineup at the Suffolk festival this year.
Camp Bestival
At this year’s Camp Bestival, held at Lulworth Castle in Dorset, guests can see the likes of Paloma Faith, Pete Tong, McFly, Orbital, The Darkness and Sophie Ellis-Bextor among others.
One in Berlin has been described as one of the best things for people to do in the world this year.
The now defunct Tegel Airport has been transformed into Turbulence TXL – the airport’s former IATA code.
Party-goers can make use of the airport’s canteen, which has now been repurposed as an event space, which celebrated its launch with the “lift-off” rave earlier this year.
Time Out listed the space at 13th in their 24 best things to do in the world in 2024, saying big things were being planned at the former airport.
They wrote: “The building, famous for its striking brutalist architecture, can host up to 700 people.
“According to the nightclub’s Instagram, the space is ‘planning big things for the open air season next year’. Grab your grungiest, stompiest dancing shoes.”
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