SPORTS TEAM ANNOUNCE BUS TRIP ALL-DAYER TO MARGATE

All-dayer festival will raise money for Stagehand Crew Relief Fund and Music Venues Trust, with performances from Sports Team, English Teacher, Courting, Bull, TV Priest, Los Bitchos and more

In light of the Government’s reopening push back and subsequent festival cancellations, today Sports Team announce Bus Trip Festival 2021 will take place at Margate’s Dreamland on 23rd July, for a bigger, better, and wilder all-dayer festival raising money for Stagehand Crew Relief Fund and Music Venues Trust.

Touring is the lifeblood of every band's career and Sports Team want to shine a light on the crews that keep all bands functioning on the road. Working closely with Dreamland, the Bus Trip Festival will now take place over what was supposed to be Truck Festival weekend, the cancellation of which has spurred many fans and bands to speak out. Working at reduced capacity, Sports Team are able to bring their annual festival to Dreamland and share in what we have all missed over the past year: the power of live music.

Starting as a humble bus trip on a 30-seater with no aircon three years ago - arrivals in Margate greeted with sand, cheap beer and an alumni of Wolf Alice, Swim Deep, Walt Disco - this year’s Bus Trip will include incredible performances from breakthrough bands TV Priest, English Teacher, Bull, Los Bitchos, Courting and DJ sets from Billie Marten and more to be announced. Tickets on sale now.  

Alex RIce from Sports Team, says: “I think like everyone we’ve felt fairly crushed by the relentless cancellations. You’ve got a load of bands around desperate to play and it’s got to the stage where the quickest route to doing that seemed to be putting on a day festival ourselves. So we’ve got a load of new bands together at Dreamland on the day that should’ve been Truck Festival to raise money for the Stagehand Crew Relief Fund and Music Venues Trust. That matters, because we want to play a part in keeping together all the infrastructure that makes touring and playing music in this country feel like the greatest thing in the world. Also it makes me feel a bit like Geldoff. So it’s cheap tickets, coastal, barely organised, first big weekend, Friday night, 23rd July. Have at it.”

Tickets for Bus Trip festival available here 

Line Up for Bus Trip

TV Priest

English Teacher

 Bull

Los Bitchos

Courting

Sports Team