Undercover Festival, a small, proudly independent musical celebration of alternative music including punk, post punk, Ska, acoustic and much more.
Yes small festivals are two a penny “BUT you won’t find anything like Undercover especially in the South East (UK)”
Undercover 8 in March 2020 was to be the last outing for Undercover Festival. After a lot of nagging from the Undercover family the Undercover people were persuaded to go for a Crowdfunding campaign that was successful and Undercover Festival 9 is back for 9, 10 & 11 April 2021 such is that which Undercover is all about..
At another new venue the newly refurbished increased capacity Suburbs The Holroyd Guildford Surrey.
Due to the success of the Crowdfunder Campaign, and the new venue being smaller than before the amount of tickets available for general sale will be limited so you are advised to get in quick to avoid disappointment.
LINE UP —
FRIDAY 9TH APRIL 2021
Main Stage: RANDOM HAND | Paranoid Visions | Eastfield | Strawberry Blondes | No Lip | The Mistakes | Sinful Maggie
Acoustic Corner: Shell the Alternative Folkie | Acoustic Demolition (Ambition Demolition) | Wyrd Sisters | Jon Lamb
SATURDAY 10TH APRIL 2021
Main Stage: ANGELIC UPSTARTS | 999 | XSLF | Menace | Rubella Ballet | Diablofurs | RAGE DC | Crash Induction | Ambition Demolition | Chaos UK | The Flying Alexanders |
Acoustic Corner: Acoustik Charred Hearts | Acoustic Dirty Ugly Punk Monkeys | Noel Martin (Menace) & Mick M | Charlie Pye’s kazoo Massive | Wyrd Sisters | Jon Lamb + the Return of Buskers Corner (where you book a slot and have a go)
SUNDAY 11TH APRIL 2021
Main Stage: RODDY RADIATION & THE SKABILLY REBELS | WitchDoktors | East Town Pirates | The Wipes | Red Anger | Actifed UK | The Fanzines | Stone Heroes | Deadlock UK
Acoustic Corner: TBA | Darron Robinson | TBA | TBA | TBA Plus the return of Buskers Corner on Saturday and Sunday with Wyrd Sisters just turn up and book a slot…
DJ Trev Bossom and MC for the weekend Keith Woodhouse and Mick Moriarty …
Door times and all other details check out FAQs on the Undercover website www.undercoverfest.com
Because we are always Undercover the bar takings are never ours so Undercover survives or we aim to predominantly on ticket sales.
Undercover Festival has had a nomadic existence since we first started in Bisley Surrey in 2013 for 3 years, then via Brighton for a year, Margate was for a couple of years, then 2019 we upped sticks to Tufnell Park London and for September 2019 we moved to The Fiery Bird Venue Woking the general area we started in, and March 2020 we moved back to Woking, but as the venue is closing we have found a new venue Suburbs The Holroyd in Guildford.
Undercover defies all other conventions and festival templates by always being held undercover i.e. not outdoors so if it’s peeing down come April it’s not a problem and your beer won’t get diluted. Leave your wellies at home, and enjoy one of the best small alternative festivals London and the South East has to offer.
Since we started loads of others have cropped up but we believe no one can match the family friendly and independent feel we have at Undercover.
Even since 2013 we have kept a proud and independent identity.
The festival is one that prides itself on taking an independent and grassroots approach to things, and is always determined to be different from mainstream events, with alternative action from bands you’d be highly unlikely to see on many other festival line-ups.
The festival grew out of a small tent tucked in the back corner of the sadly departed GuilFest in Surrey and has become a firm fixture in many people’s diaries, with dedicated fans coming back year on year.
In a financial climate where it always seems to be about the money, Undercover throws convention to the wind and just goes with what it believes in.