Compass Music Festival

Compass Music Festival 2026 is TBA...

Compass Music Festival is held at The Workshop in Folkestone.

Yes, you must be 14+ to attend Compass Music Festival. I.D will be required upon collecting your wristband. Please note most venues will only allow U18s (accompanied by an adult) until 8/9pm to comply with their licenses.

Your One Day or Two-Day ticket is exchanged for a festival wristband, which gives you access to all shows in all venues for the day or days you choose. Access is subject to each venue’s capacity.

If a venue is full, it’s one in, one out. We recommend exploring another venue — all are a few minutes apart (5 on Friday, 6 on Saturday), and bands will be alternating sets so there will always be something for you to go and watch!

U18s (14+) must be with an adult, and most venues will only allow them to stay until 9pm to comply with their license. We’d love to have younger audiences still, but it adds an extra layer we cannot sustain at our grassroots level.

Students and U25s can access discounted concessions tickets.

Last year’s free afternoons with donations unfotunately didn’t cover costs, as we only receive minimal project local funding, which is also down 20% this year from last year!

To upheld our values, ie. pay artists and crew fairly, have good sound and keep tickets affordable, all shows needs to be ticketed, although our pricing is very competitive. Tickets still average less than £1 per band, with concessions available.

Possibly — but only if not sold out. Buying early helps us survive and reduces risk for grassroots festivals like ours.

Our experience and those of similar organisations such as the Association of Independent Promoters which we are a part of, shows that nearly half of ticket buyers wait until 48hr before a show to buy a ticket, which leads sadly to a lot of cancellations of events, as it makes planning impossible and the financial risk to high to carry for grassroots orgs!

Buy your ticket early if you intend to come, consider a Festival Support/Pay It Forward ticket if you can afford it, or share info about Compass with friends and family, and on social media !

Word of mouth and personal recommendations are still by far the very best marketing channel for events! And we’d rather give money to bands than to M*ta, quite frankly.