No ifs, no buts – get to Butserfest this weekend!

Hampshire’s answer to the Underage Festival looks like it’s going to be a highlight of the late season this year.

Butserfest, the alcohol and drug-free festival near Petersfield and aimed at 14-20 year olds, will include up-and-coming national bands and unsigned acts from East Hampshire and beyond. The festival will have two stages with great bands; food, drinks and band merchandise stalls and a range of free activities.

The full line-up for the main stage is: The King Blues, We Are The Ocean, My Passion, Young Guns, Bury Tomorrow, Fei Comodo, Shadows Chasing Ghosts, Mike TV, The Theory Of 6 Degrees, 3 Ways Of Thinking, We Start Partys, As We Climb, The Light Divided, The Famous Class.

Headliners The King Blues  – described as “the most exciting live band in Britain” by Kerrang magazine – come to Butserfest fresh from playing Reading and Leeds Festival and will be touring around the UK after the festival. We Are The Ocean will play Butserfest before embarking on a headline tour of the UK in September in support of their new album ‘Cutting Our Teeth’. My Passion are playing in Germany Holland and France in the build-up to the festival and heading on a UK and Ireland headline tour in October that will end with a Halloween fancy dress gig at the Camden Underworld. Young Guns opened the main stage at Reading Festival, and following Butserfest will tour around Europe before beginning a UK headline tour in November-December in support of their new album ‘All Our Kings Are Dead’.

The Butserquest stage will feature: Deaf Havana, Lecarla, The City Calls, Tonight We Fly, Mr Temper, Precilla Broke, Jonny Black, Luke Ferre, Thursdays Bad Luck.

Butserfest tickets are available for £15 in advance from ticketsouth.co.uk (023 8071 1818). Tickets will be on sale at the door for £20.

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