Plans for a new three-day music festival that could entertain 9,999 people on Swansea beach next summer have taken a step forward. The date has been set for the proposed Tunes on the Bay festival, the newest iteration of the 'Tunes Festivals' usually based in Devon and Cornwall, after a planning application was submitted to Swansea Council last month.
If given the go-ahead, the festival will be held from midday on Friday, May 3, 2024, to 11pm on Sunday, May 5. Initial information on a ticket selling site suggests general admission weekend tickets for Tunes On The Bay will be £70 each, though they are not yet on sale.
Tunes Festivals, also known as Tunes in The Dunes, launched its first music festival on Perranporth beach in Cornwall a decade ago, before branching out to launch a few more festivals in the south west region, including Tunes in the Park in the grounds of Port Eliot Estate in Cornwall, Tunes On The Sands at Blackpool Sands, south Devon, and Tunes in the Castle in Powderham Castle, Exeter. You can get more Swansea news and other story updates straight to your inbox by subscribing to our newsletters here.
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Tunes on the Bay will be the company's first Welsh festival and is expected to host a wide range of top performers, local acts, DJs, food stalls and a bar. As we reported last month, the planning application for the Swansea festival specifies it would be a 9,999-maximum capacity event, twice the size of the original Tunes in the Dunes festival in Cornwall.
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Headline acts at previous Tunes festivals have included Tom Jones, The Vaccines, Kaiser Chiefs, James Bay, Scouting for Girls, The Kooks, Tinchy Stryder, Dizzee Rascal, Ella Eyre and James Morrison, to name a few. The proposed line-up for the Swansea festival has not yet been shared but is expected to be announced well-ahead of the event.
Tunes in the Dunes Ltd did not respond when we reached out for comment previously, but its planning application shows the company has applied for a licence to play live and recorded music and sell alcohol from Friday to Sunday from 12pm to 11pm. People who wish to comment on the application can make a representation in writing and send it by email to: evh.licensing@swansea.gov.uk by the comment deadline of Wednesday, November 8.
