EVENT INFO
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Kubix Festival
Herrington Country Park
Sunderland
Tyne & Wear
DH4 7EL
Kubix Festival is an effort by a group of local promoters to delivery 1st class quality entertainment by sensational recording artists, at a price that won’t hurt your pocket! We’re fans ourselves and want to see live music remain as accessible as possible to all fans, which is why we keep our prices so reasonable for such brilliant line-ups!
Parking is FREE and available within Herrington Country Park. On your arrivals, our Stewards will direct you to the appropriate parking area (VIP Guests will have access to a separate parking area even closer to the event).
A shuttle bus will run to and from nearby cities delivering you to the door of the event. A small charge will be made to cover the costs of this service, but again, we’ve kept it to an absolute minimum!
Certainly! Kubix Festival is a family friendly event and children of all ages are welcome! Junior tickets allow access, at a reduced price, for children aged 17 and under, provided they are accompanied by a responsible Adult over the age of 18. Children under 5 are free and do not require a ticket.
VIP Ticket holders get the full experience including dedicated parking near the Event entrance, Q-Jump into the event, a private heated marquee including indoor and outdoor seating and tables, Q-jump at the bar, a hot served meal on each day and (the most sought after feature at any festival) private, posh toilets! There is a strictly limited number of VIP tickets and once they’re sold out, we will be unable to add any further tickets.
These are the various Shuttle Bus routes and times. All bus stops will have a sign and steward in attendance 30 minutes before bus departure times, in a high viz jacket:
- Newcastle Buses - Pick up at the Bus Stop at Bewick Street
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Gateshead Buses - Pick up at the Bus Stop at the bottom of Jackson Street (High Street end) outside The Metropole.
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Sunderland Buses - Pick up at the Bus Stop at Cowan Terrace (adjacent to Park Lane Interchange)
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Durham Buses - Pick up from Durham Bus Station, Stand A.
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Middlesbrough Buses - Pick up at Linthorpe Road outside Domino's Pizza, TS1 3RB.
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Hartlepool Buses - Pick up at the Bus Stop at The National Museum Royal Navy Hartlepool, Jackson Dock, Maritime Avenue, Hartlepool, TS24 0XZ - Coach Park.
Friday - Event Opens 1500
Newcastle Buses - Depart 1425 - Return 2300.
Gateshead Buses - Depart 1445 - Return 2300.
Sunderland Buses - Depart 1445 - Return 2300.
Durham Buses - Depart 1430 - Return 2300.
Middlesbrough Buses - Depart 1335 - Return 2300.
Hartlepool Buses - Depart 1415 - Return 2300.
Saturday - Event Opens 1130
Newcastle Buses - Depart 1025 - Return 2300.
Gateshead Buses - Depart between 1045 - Return 2300.
Sunderland Buses - Depart 1045 - Return 2300.
Durham Buses - Depart 1030 - Return 2300.
Middlesbrough Buses - Depart 0935 - Return 2300.
Hartlepool Buses - Depart 1015 - Return 2300.
There is a large car park within Herrington Country Park which will be manned by our stewards. There is NO CHARGE for this car parking at Kubix Festival. If you have a VIP ticket, you will have access to a further car park right at the door of the event, included in the price of your VIP ticket.
Kubix Festival 2018 is a non-camping event, however the shuttle bus service means that you can access the best hotel deals in various cities in the area and rest assured that the shuttle bus will take you direct to and from the event.
Yes, Kubix Festival operates its own bars enabling us to offer very competitive drink prices.
We will be offering a good selection of lagers, ciders and beers (draught and bottled), alongside great real ales, cocktails, spirits, wines and a range of soft drinks.
The bar will open on Friday @ 3.30pm and Saturday @ 12.30pm and will close shortly before the music ends on each night.
CASHLESS BAR
We use a token system to speed up bar service at Kubix Festival. No cash is handed over at the bar. You simply buy tokens at the nearby booth (accepting cash or card payments) and use these tokens to pay for your drinks. The tokens are non-refundable so please only buy what you will need for the weekend.
CHALLENGE 25
Kubix Festival operates a strict Challenge 25 policy. If you’re lucky enough to look younger than you are, please remember to bring ID and don’t be offended if our staff ask to verify your age.
There will be a great variety of British and World foods available at the Festival to ensure there is something available for everyone. Not all dishes served by caterers will be suitable for specific dietary requirements, so please check to see what options are available.
The gates to the event will open at 3.00pm on the Friday and 11.30am on the Saturday. Shuttle buses will begin the first pick-ups approximately 1 hour before that on each day and Car Parks will open 30 mins before the start times.
The Event will finish around 10.45pm on each day and shuttle buses will continue to run until everyone who’s booked has been returned to their start point.
Travelling southbound on the A1, take the turnoff for the A1231 (Washington,Sunderland). At the 1st roundabout, take the 3rd Exit (A1231, Washington, Sunderland). At the next Roundabout, take the 3rd Exit (A182). At the next Roundabout take the 1st Exit to continue on the A182. At the next Roundabout, take the 2nd Exit onto the A183 (Sunderland). Continue on this road until you reach Herrington Country Park.
Travelling northbound on the A1, take the turnoff for the A690 (Sunderland). Continue on the A690 until you reach the A19. At the Roundabout take the 1st exit onto the A19. Take the next exit signposted A183 (Sunderland). Take the 1st Exit at the Roundabout and follow the road until you reach Herrington Country Park.
Travelling on the A19, take the turnoff signposted A183 (Sunderland). At the roundabout, take the 3rd Exit onto the A183 (Herrington) and follow the road until you reach Herrington Country Park.
Travelling on the A19, take the turnoff signposted A183 (Sunderland). At the roundabout, take the 1st Exit onto the A183 (Herrington) and follow the road until you reach Herrington Country Park.
Kubix Festival goes to great lengths to ensure the event is accessible to everyone. This includes the availability of accessible parking, toilets and the design of the site utilises hardstanding routes to make the event as accessible as possible for wheelchair users.
There is also a raised platform for wheelchair users to view the event, though it does have a capacity and will be first come first served to wheelchair users and their companions. Any person with additional needs who requires a ticket for a carer or assistant, can contact Kubix Festival who will make provisions for this directly.
Kubix Festival aims to be much more than just the live music and there will be various other activities within the event, including fairground rides and novelty attractions and a variety of traders exhibiting items for sale along the theme of the event.
Q & A
Your Kubix Questions Answered
Tickets
Before the festival day, you can buy tickets from this website using a debit or credit card, such as VISA or MASTERCARD. You can also purchase tickets over the phone via our Ticketing Agent, Eventim UK, on 0844 249 1000 (Calls cost 7 pence per minute plus your provider’s access charge. Lines are open Monday to Sunday, 8am to 8pm).
Tickets for Kubix Festival are released in tiers containing a pre-determined allocation of tickets. When each tier, sells out, the following tier becomes available at a new price. The logic behind this is to reward the customers who purchase early.
Using our tiered systems, each standard tickets get full event access, but those purchasing earlier are rewarded with a better price!
Early Bird Prices (Plus Booking Fee applied by our Ticketing Agent)
Friday £27.50
Saturday £27.50
Weekend £50
1st Release Tickets
Friday £33
Saturday £33
Weekend £55
2nd Release Tickets
Friday £36
Saturday £36
Weekend £60
3rd Release Tickets
Friday £41
Saturday £41
Weekend £70
We expect Kubix Festival to sell-out in advance (the event has a set capacity determined for safety reasons), but if there are any tickets remaining, they will be available to purchase on the day at the following prices:
Friday £45
Saturday £45
Weekend £80
Children aged 15 and under qualify for a Junior ticket at a reduced price.
Children ages 5 and under are free and do not require a ticket.
All children aged 15 and under must be accompanied by a responsible adult over the age of 18.
There are no discounts for our disabled visitors, but the festival has full disabled facilities. If you are accompanying a cared-for person who has a ticket, we will issue you a complimentary ticket to ensure that you are able to fully assist them throughout their visit. We will ask you to show some carers ID or a blue badge for the person requiring assistance to ease the transition at the entrance and allow our security to correctly identify you as a person who should be in possession of the free ticket.
Tickets purchased as non-refundable, although the organisers may, at their sole discretion, refund a ticket which cannot be used through exceptional circumstances.
If you haven’t received your ticket within the allocated time fame, please contact out ticket sales agent, Eventim UK on 0844 249 1000, or contact us using the Contact page, confirming the details of your ticket order as we will use these to find your booking.
The original tickets will be voided once we have established that your tickets were not received and new tickets will be issued to replace them.
SPONSORS/TRADERS/EXHIBITORS
Please use our Contact page to discuss our exciting sponsorship opportunities, our team will contact you discuss the various packages available and the benefits they could offer to your business.
Please use our Contact page, providing information on your business, what you would like to trade, website links / contact numbers and a member of our team will contact you directly.
General Questions
The Event will open at 3.30pm on the Friday and 12.30pm on the Saturday. Car Parks will open 30 minutes before the event on each day. Shuttle buses will begin to operate around 1 hour before the event opens on each day, to ensure that you can be there for the whole day!
Yes, you can. Once you have entered the event, you can leave any time you wish and re-enter by showing your wristband, which you will be given. There will, however, be a last entry time to the event of 8pm on each day, after which time you will not be able to re-enter the event. This is to allow us to ensure that as much attention as possible to paid to the running of the event at its busiest times and the site can be made ready for the exit of all of the attendees in a safe manner.
We’re fans as much as you are and know the importance of the basics at these events. For this reason, we make sure that not only do we have plenty of toilets available at the event, but we also have a team of cleaners to ensure that the toilets remain clean and stocked throughout the day. If event toilets really aren’t your thing, check out our VIP packages, who have access to luxury trailer style toilets throughout the weekend.
Each attendee can bring a small bottle of soft drink up to 500ml, if it remains sealed as bought. Any person with specific dietary requirements can inform us in advance and where suitable options aren’t available on site, we will give dispensation to bring suitable food to the event. Personal picnics are also permitted into the event, upon arrival, but further take away food cannot be brought in during the event. We will have a wide choice of caterers who will be very reasonably priced.
Our fully licensed bar stocks a variety of draughts including lager, beer and ciders. We also serve spirits (premium brands), cocktails and a variety of other drinks. Hot drinks including barista style coffee are also available. Milkshakes (it’s summer!) are also available on site.
You can expect a great variety of cuisine, such as pizza, burgers, hot dogs, curry, noodles, jacket potatoes, fish and chips, wraps and much more, plus all the sweet things you can think of from ice cream to milk shakes, all at very reasonable prices.
The food traders cannot all guarantee to cater for all special dietary requirements, lifestyle choices, allergies or food intolerance's, but will accommodate wherever possible. Please ask the individual food traders for more information.
We provide a limited amount of seating and tables around the bar area, but cannot provide enough for everyone. If you would like to bring your own folding chairs or blankets, please feel free. There will however be an area immediately in front of the stage which is marked as standing only and no chairs / blankets will be permitted in that area.
Yes, you can use your debit or credit card at our Token Booth to obtain cashback, up to £50. There is a £1.50 service charge for this service.
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Unfortunately, for safety reasons, we are unable to allow dogs onto the Festival site, except for guide or assistance dogs, who will be permitted.
As part of our commitment to make our event as accessible as possible, Kubix Festival provides the following: Disabled Parking area, disabled toilets, hardstanding routes through the event site, a raised viewing platform for wheelchair users and complimentary tickets for carers. If you have any other specific requirements, let us know via our Contact page and where at all possible, we’ll endeavour to help.
Kubix Festival is a family friendly event and our Security Provider are specialists in Live Music Events. Kubix Festival support it’s provider in ensuring that our zero-tolerance approach to anti-social or disruptive behaviour maintains a calm and enjoyable atmosphere for everyone.
Also available on site are a team of professional medical staff to assist with any problems.
We also have comprehensive safeguarding policies including a professional approach to dealing with lost children to ensure that all possible steps are taken to keep everyone as safe as possible.