Join us on Saturday 21st May

Tickets go on sale to the public on Thursday 24th March at 9am.
Come and have fun in celebration of the Pier’s reopening with a glittering day and evening filled with music, activities and entertainment – culminating in a very special finale headlined by Madness!
Tickets are limited (owing to our restricted capacity of 2,500 people on the Pier), and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. We expect these events to be very popular, so recommend that you book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Opening Ceremony: Invitation only
10am – 2pm
The formal Opening Ceremony of Hastings Pier will only be open to shareholders and a small number of invited people who have been involved with the project.
We are unable to open the Opening Ceremony to the public. Thank you for your understanding.

Gala Entertainment: Pay What You Want
3pm – 6pm
The Gala Entertainment session will feature lots of entertainment, food stalls and music celebrating the Pier's musical heritage from the 60s and 70s.
Tickets are available for a 'Pay What You Want' donation to Hastings Pier Charity, and are limited to two tickets per booking.
Book tickets here from Thursday 24th March at 9am.

Finale Concert by Madness: £25 per ticket
7pm – 10.30pm
Madness will take to the stage on Hastings Pier to headline our Opening Gala celebrations on the evening of Saturday 21st May.
Tickets for our Finale Concert are priced at £25 each (inc VAT), and are limited to two tickets per booking.
Book tickets here from Thursday 24th March at 9am.
There will be a high volume of traffic to the ticketing website on Thursday morning, and as such we expect there to be waiting times. We appreciate your patience.

 

The Musical heritage of Hastings Pier by Olu Jenzen and Beatrice Rapley

The silent disco on the Hastings Pier was an event that aimed to test the potentials and limitations of telling the popular culture history of the pier through music. It was organised in September of 2015 as part of the Heritage Open Days.

The event was a collaboration between The People’s Pier research project and the Hastings Pier Charity.

Olu and Archie produced a podcast that showcased the musical heritage of the pier from the 1960s to the 2000s, based on research into the pier as a music venue and space for the enjoyment of a wide range of popular culture by the research team in collaboration with the pier archive team volunteers. It featured music, oral history and various seaside sound effects.

the Rolling Stones played Hastings Pier three times in 1964, but also groups such as The Kinks, The Who, The Zombies and artists such as Jimi Hendrix and Cilla Black sustained youth culture on the south coast as well as attracted young people down from London.

Hastings Pier has such a fantastically rich musical heritage – and is quite unique in how it became the host for waves of new types of music such as progressive and glam rock (Pink Floyd, The Nice, Genesis, Hawkwind, Sparks, T-Rex) and onward into the punk period (Sex Pistols, The Damned, The Clash, The Jam) and in the 1990s, as youth musical culture became more dance orientated again – like in the 1950s – Hastings Pier morphed into a rave party venue featuring acts such as the Prodigy.

See The Kinks and read more at http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/thepeoplespier/2015/10/27/the-musical-heritage-of-hastings-pier/