Info Q&A

Back for a 6th year, the Kubix Pop & Dance Extravaganza is back on Saturday 13th July 2024 in Herrington Park

Three stages –
More music, and more choice on the biggest one-day festival in the North East!

Kubix Rock has been relaunched on 20th July 2024 as our brilliant new Monument Festival – see the website for full details.

Kubix Festival began as an effort by a group of local North East promoters to deliver first 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 continue to keep our prices so reasonable for such brilliant line-ups! 2024 is no different and will be bigger and better, but still fantastic value.

After a brilliant 2023 we’re back for a 6th year in 2024 and it’ll be even better in 2024.

Kubix Rock has been relaunched on 20th July 2024 as our brilliant new Monument Festival – see the website for full details.

There will be lots of bars, with much more choice of drinks next year, a wider range of food options, including vegetarian, vegan and more specialist caterers, plus a funfair and lots of extra activities coming – for adults and kids alike.

Parking is FREE and available within Herrington Country Park.  On your arrival, our Stewards will direct you to the appropriate parking area which includes disabled parking (VIP Guests will have access to a separate parking area even closer to the event).

Shuttle bus services will be improved next year with more buses 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!

There will be a huge outdoor main stage with the most spectacular production yet, planned, and a big second stage in a huge big top and a new extra third stage, giving you even more choice. It will have a few surprises each day with bands, DJs and artists you’ve maybe never seen, but now’s your chance.

There’s a camping option for the day of each festival, offering a dedicated camp site next door to the music arena, with Camping tickets offering you the chance to stay and party on the Saturday nights, and not worry about how to get home at night!

It’s all here for you at Kubix’s day of incredible live music!

The gate opening times are:

SATURDAY 13TH JULY 2024 – 11.00am (next year’s Kubix Pop Festival)

SATURDAY 20th JULY 2024 – 11.00am (Monument Festival – see Monument Festival website for full details)

Shuttle bus pick up times will ensure you arrive each day well before the music starts and they will return to the same pick up/drop off points after the music finishes each night. Car Parks will open 30 mins before the gate opening times.

The Event will finish around 10.50pm on each day and shuttle buses will wait until everyone who’s booked a bus ticket has boarded for the return trip.

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 15 and under. Under 18s are welcome, provided they are accompanied by a responsible ticket-holding Adult over the age of 21.  Children 5 and under are free and do not require a ticket.

Kubix Festival’s Security Provider are specialists in Live Music Events and supports 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.

It is very important to the organisers, that we ensure that the event is accessible as possible, to everyone, and all aspects of accessibility are reviewed regularly, to ensure improvements can be made, where required, on an ongoing basis. This includes the availability of accessible disabled parking, wheelchair access and disabled toilets in a secure stewarded area, a wheelchair viewing platform for the main stage and a festival site that utilises hard standing routes, where practicable, to make the event as accessible as possible for wheelchair users.

We strive to do all we can to make Kubix Festival as accessible as possible. As with any outdoor event, weather conditions and uneven ground in parts, on a grassed site, need to be taken into consideration, when using a wheelchair or mobility scooter, and for wet weather conditions, suitable clothing, footwear, etc, is recommended.

There will also be a dedicated main stage viewing area for wheelchair users to view the event, though it does have a limited capacity and will be on a first come, first served basis, exclusively for wheelchair users and one companion.

To obtain access to these facilities, you will need to contact our team via the Contact Page to ask for an Accessibility Questionnaire which is used to help determine exactly which areas are needed to enhance your experience. 

Any person with additional needs who requires a free ticket for a carer or assistant, can email Kubix Festival via our Contact Page or at info@kubixfestival.co.uk where we will make provision for this directly.

YES! Kubix will have camping right next door to the music arena for tents, motorhomes and caravans. The vehicle parking will be next door so there’ll be no long walks with your camping gear or to the music arena.

Camping tickets are for the Saturday night only on the 13th July 2024.

The camp site facilities will include:

• 24/7 security
• Toilets and drinking water supplies
• ELSAN waste disposal point

There will be 3 main camping sections which will all be very close together and next door to the music arena, so no long walks:

• Tents
• Motorhomes and caravans
• Car parking for campers with tents

Please scroll to the bottom of this page for the full CAMPING Q&A.

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, lots of new children’s entertainment, novelty attractions and a variety of traders exhibiting items for sale along the theme of the event.

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 provide a small 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 in 2023 will be marked as standing only and no chairs / blankets will be permitted in that area for safety reasons.

Gazebos, tents, etc, are not permitted for safety reasons.

Kubix is an open-air ‘music in the park’ style event with great views from all areas of the park and video screens for enhanced viewing enjoyment.

Unfortunately, for safety reasons, we are unable to allow dogs onto the Festival site, except for guide or assistance dogs, who will be permitted.

There is no ATM facility on the festival site but all the bars will accept credit and debit cards, including contactless. There will also be a cash bar at the festival.

ALL BUS TICKET OPTIONS, ARE ON SALE ON OUR TICKETS PAGE, (POP) AND TICKETS PAGE, (ROCK) AND EACH TICKET RESERVES A SEAT FOR RETURN BUS TRAVEL, TO AND FROM THE FESTIVAL. BUSES WILL DEPART AT A SET PICK UP TIME AND THEN RETURN BACK FROM THE FESTIVAL AT 11PM, AFTER ALL MUSIC HAS FINISHED. BUSES WILL RETURN TO THE SAME PICK UP/DROP OFF POINT. EXACT DETAILS OF DEPARTURE TIMES TO THE FESTIVAL AND THE PICK UP/DROP OFF ADDRESSES ARE BELOW: 

Travelling southbound on the A1, take the turnoff for the A1231 (Washington,Sunderland).  At the 1^st roundabout, take the 3^rd Exit (A1231, Washington, Sunderland).  At the next Roundabout, take the 3^rd Exit (A182).  At the next Roundabout take the 1^st Exit to continue on the A182.  At the next Roundabout, take the 2^nd Exit onto the A183 (Sunderland).  Continue on this road until you reach Herrington Country Park.

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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 1^st exit onto the A19.  Take the next exit signposted A183 (Sunderland).  Take the 1^st Exit at the Roundabout and follow the road until you reach Herrington Country Park.

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Travelling on the A19, take the turnoff signposted A183 (Sunderland).  At the roundabout, take the 3^rd Exit onto the A183 (Herrington) and follow the road until you reach Herrington Country Park.

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Travelling on the A19, take the turnoff signposted A183 (Sunderland).  At the roundabout, take the 1^st Exit onto the A183 (Herrington) and follow the road until you reach Herrington Country Park.

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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.

Before the festival day, you can buy tickets from this website using a debit or credit card, such as VISA or MASTERCARD.  Tickets are emailed electronically to you 2 weeks before the festival dates, so please enter your email address accurately.

Tickets for Kubix Festival 2024 will be released in tiers containing a pre-determined allocation of tickets.  When each tier, sells out, the following tier becomes available at a new price.  There will be announcements on the website and social media before each tier is due to sell out.

We can guarantee that the initial Early Bird price launched first are THE cheapest tickets available at any time for 2024’s Kubix Festival.

Kubix Festival 2024 will almost certainly 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 of the event but these will be strictly limited!

• Children aged 6-15 qualify for a ticket at a reduced price.
• Children ages 5 and under are free and do not require a ticket.
• Under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible ticket-holding adult aged 21+.

There are no price discounts for our disabled visitors, but the festival has full disabled facilities and there are free accompanying Adult Carer tickets available. If you have additional needs and require a free ticket for a carer or assistant, in order to attend the festival, please email Kubix Festival via our Contact Page or at info@kubixfestival.co.uk, with the ticket order reference number and an access card information, where we can then make provision for this directly.

An accompanying Carer ticket must be presented at the entrance gate at the same time as the main purchased ticket(s).

Ticket order receipts are emailed electronically to you, immediately after you have ordered and the e-tickets can be downloaded from your tickets order login, at any time from 2 weeks before the festival weekend. If you can’t find your tickets please contact us on info@kubixfestival.co.uk or using the our Contact page , confirming the details of your ticket order (name and email address used when ordering and tickets order reference number, if known) and we will use these to find your booking.

Our fully licensed bars will stock a variety of draughts including lager, beer and ciders plus a range of real ales.  We also serve spirits, wines, cocktails, a variety of other drinks and a range of soft drinks.  Hot drinks including barista style coffee are also available.  Milkshakes (it’s summer!) are also available on site.

Kubix Festival have hired a team of specialist festival bar suppliers, enabling us to offer very competitive drink prices. For 2023 we’re doubling the number of bars which will be open from 11.00 am and will close shortly before the music ends on each night.

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 original ID and don’t be offended if our staff ask to verify your age.

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.

We’ve decided to increase the number of caterers further for 2023 so there will be a much greater variety of British and World foods available at Kubix to ensure there is something available for everyone.

There will be a number of Vegan, Vegetarian and Gluten-free choices available.

Not all dishes served by caterers will be suitable for specific dietary requirements, so please check to see what options are available.

Each attendee can bring a small bottle of water or soft drink up to 500ml, if it remains sealed, as bought.  Free drinking water will be available at points throughout the festival, so you can bring an empty reusable plastic or aluminium bottle to the event for water refills. Alcohol cannot be brought into the event.

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. Please email us via our Contact Page if you have specific dietary requirements.  Small personal picnics are also permitted into the event, upon arrival, but no metal/glass utensils or cool boxes, for safety and security reasons. 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.

Please note, to allow time for security bag searches, we are operating a ‘no big bags policy’, so no large rucksacks or bags, are permitted. Only small rucksacks/bags with length/width dimensions no larger than a piece of A4 paper, can be brought into the music arena.

All camp sites will have drinking water supply, 24/7 security, toilets and ELSAN waste disposal. Click on the site map at the top of this page, showing the camping site locations.

There will be a Disabled Camping Section close to the music arena for ease of access, clearly signposted on the weekend. This needs booking in advance when you use the contact us page to apply for the disabled access.

There will be a quiet family area of the camp site located further away from the music arena. This section does not have to be pre-booked and you can choose to pitch up in this area when you arrive. The stewards will direct you to this area.

Campers can bring personal food and drink onto the site for consumption by campers, in the camp site only.

Free drinking water will be provided so you can bring in an empty reusable plastic or aluminium bottle for refills.

NO GLASS or metal utensils are allowed anywhere on site due to Health & Safety restrictions.

We want people to enjoy their time at the festival to the fullest, and that means great camping facilities, but we must balance this against safety requirements and good practice.  To that end, our advice on BBQs, Camping Stoves and Fires is set out below:

• Open fires are permitted only in fireproof containers clearly raised from the ground (fire pits etc) and should only be used when supervised by persons sober and sensible.
• BBQs are permitted only when clearly raised from the ground (fire pits etc) and should only be used when supervised by persons sober and sensible.
• Camping Stoves are permitted, and we wholeheartedly encourage people to use either solid or liquid fuelled options which are not only much safer but more environmentally friendly too.
• If you use a gas canister supplied stove (butane etc) please ensure that you bring only the minimum amount of gas required for your stay and both always use and store these items appropriately.
• All fires / stoves must always be used an appropriate distance from any tents.  At least 1m is essential and over 2m for any form of open fire or BBQ.
• Security will prevent any improper use of fires, BBQs or stoves and person who fail to follow these basic safety steps risk their items being seized and/or being ejected from the Festival.

Please enjoy, but do so sensibly and safely, thank you.

Camping pitches will be filled sequentially on arrival, so you will be directed to the correct camp site for your camping pitch, by stewards, as you arrive.

There will be dedicated sections for:

• Tents
• Car Parking
• Motorhomes/caravans/live-in vehicles

The camp sites have toilets, ELSAN waste disposal, drinkng water supplies and 24/7 security.

For safety reasons, to avoid the risk of vehicles driving between tents, the cars will be parked in a separate car park next door to the tents area.

The Camping tickets are PER PERSON wishing to camp, and allow camping for the Saturday of each weekend only. Camping tickets are per person for tents and per vehicle for live-in vehicle permits. Every person MUST have a music entry ticket.

• TENTS CAMPING for camping in a tent with an accompanying vehicle.
• LIVE-IN VEHICLE CAMPING for camping in a motorhome, caravan or camper van.

The camp site will open at 9am on each Saturday of the Festival Days and will close at 2pm on the Sunday of the day after each of the Festivals (Sunday 14th July 2024 for Kubix Festival and Sunday 21st July 2024 for Monument Festival).

The camp sites are filled sequentially on arrival, so if you’d like to pitch up next to friends, please arrive together.

Tents and accompanying vehicles, for safety reasons, are in separate areas of each camp site to motorhomes and caravans. Campers are able to socialise with friends in any other areas of the camp site.

The bar accepts cash and card and the majority of food traders also accept card payments.

SECURITY –
a) Kubix Festival reserves the right to evict a customer without refund, and/or refuse admission.
b) You may be body/bag searched at the entrances, on the site or when leaving.
c) Any item(s), reasonably considered for use as a weapon, which may cause danger, offence or disruption to any other person, will be confiscated.
d) Any person carrying illegal items or carrying out illegal activity will be given to the Police and refused entry.
e) Anti-social behaviour may lead to eviction. Please act responsibly.
f) Throwing gas, aerosol or similar canisters/containers on to fires is extremely dangerous and will lead to eviction.

DAMAGE/LOSSES –
Kubix Festival is unable to accept any liability for personal or property damages, losses (including confiscations) or injuries sustained at this event – other than caused as a result of our negligence.

BANNED ITEMS –
a) Banned from all areas of the festival – Glass bottles/containers, airhorns, fireworks, flares, illegal substances, drugs, ‘legal highs’, laser equipment/pens, megaphones, nitrous oxide, sky or ‘chinese’ lanterns, sound systems, spray cans, tabards/high viz jackets.
b) Banned from arena – Cans, disposable BBQs ,campsite stoves, alcohol – food and drinks are not permitted to be taken into the arena. Campers must keep any alcohol in the camping area only.
c) Generators with the exception of fixed in campervans.
d) Anyone resisting the confiscation of disallowed items or disregarding these conditions will face eviction.
e) Under 18’s are not permitted to bring alcohol to the camping area or to purchase alcohol on site.
f) It is illegal for an over 18 to purchase alcohol on the behalf of under 18s.

Covid created a rapidly evolving landscape for events in the UK.  Outdoor live events and festivals are back but our team, will continue to plan a series of comprehensive safety and hygiene measures, to ensure that public safety and specifically Covid-19 safety is of the utmost importance.

We will fully comply with any legal requirements in place and react swiftly to any further changes to requirements or legislation, and keep customers fully informed of this and all other steps that we are taking, to ensure that the safety of our customers is not compromised in any way.

We will also be ensuring that a dedicated team of trained cleaners are providing regular and thorough deep cleaning of all commonly touched items, toilets, tables, bar surfaces etc. There will be ample hand sanitiser and disinfectants available and customers will be readily encouraged to make frequent use of these facilities.

Glamping is increasingly becoming the most popular option for festivalgoers, it also provides a great alternative to camping and for those looking for an effortless and comfortable outdoor experience. And with no build and take down required, it’s also the hassle-free option. So, what’s not to love? The ultimate luxury festival experience, located in its own glamping village and includes access to the pamper station and posh loos and showers!

Glamping is provided by our friends at Hippie Chic Glamping and the package price is for up to 4 people! Every person glamping will also need a music entry and camping ticket each!

Also included with your Glamping Package is access to ‘The Pamper tent’ – with mirrors, hairdryer & seating – a little place of calm to get party ready! (opening hours will be visible at reception). Or if it rains you can nip back and get glammed up again!

With 4m or 5m Belle tents available, Hippie Chic don’t compromise on quality either. With luxury foam mattresses, super snuggly bedding, rugs and cool hippy chic décor & accessories.
Because when it’s time to party hard, we know more than anyone the importance of a good night’s sleep!

With lighting indoor and outdoor, and access to 13-amp sockets available to keep your essentials charged over the day, (up to a maximum usage of 6 amps at
any one time) this is festival life at its finest. The glamping beds, whilst comfy, are floor level so please contact us if you have mobility issues that may require a raised bed.

Plenty of spare blankets will be available in to enjoy your outdoor seating area or to wrap up in your tent ready for the perfect night’s sleep.

Booking your Glamping Direct with Hippie Chic HERE

We welcome applications from bands, artists and DJs. As we are full this year, applications for 2025 will run from the start of September to the end of November 2024.

When applying, from 1st September 2024 please email us as many details as possible and tell us about your music, where you’ve played and why you’d like to play at Kubix. We receive hundreds of applications each year but they are all given full and fair consideration. The Bookings Team will get back in touch if your application is being considered.

Please include live footage links and write to us via the email on our Contact Page