Tuesday Grows Fat Again
Hastings Fat Tuesday Music Festival will return in its full form in 2025, running from 28 February to 4 March.
The full five days of music and mayhem will launch with the Grand Mardi Gras Ball with early bird tickets already on sale from The White Rock Theatre. The Ball takes place on Friday 28 February 2025, with an array of musical delights, so dust off your beads and boas and get dressed to impress!
Opening the night are festival favourites Ríoghnach Connolly and Honeyfeet with their eclectic taste for musical adventure. Together, they drive a broad terrain of musical textures, with foot-tapping and floor-thumping dance rhythms. Then don’t miss the much-anticipated return of the extraordinary Mr Wilson’s Second-Liners, a must-be-seen band that looks like the cover of Sergeant Pepper’s, uses a traditional instrumental New Orleans line-up, simultaneously paying musical homage to the diehard days of the Hacienda and 90s club culture.
Keep on dancing to tracks spun by two legendary dance DJs Justin Robertson and Jon Carter. And new for 2025: join the late night party in the White Rock Theatre Studio where Civil Partners (in Crime) Lemur Beats will take you on a genre-blurring, time-hopping journey through House, Techno, Afro-disco, Twisted Global Funk and more.
BEST DRESSED
Make sure, too, that you’re suitably dressed to enter the Best Dressed Competition!
While we’re pleased to announce that some funding has been secured to support the delivery of the full festival, we still need some extra help to allow us to keep the main elements free for all, including our community and school umbrella workshops, our family parade, and the main music tours on the Saturday and Tuesday.
Please consider adding a donation on to your ball ticket [whiterocktheatre.org.uk/whats-on/event/mardi-gras-ball-2025/] or you can support us through our Crowdfunder [crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hastings-fat-tuesday-music-festival-2025] to ensure we can keep all these elements, and the musicians, free.
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