Tunes On The Bay — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

15–18 May 2027 (4 days)

Location

Swansea Beach, TBA, TBA

Sound

bass · drum and bass · electronic

Tickets

€166 – €207 · 2 tiers tracked

Venue type

Natural site

Best nearby base

Swansea · 0 km · about 0 min

On-site camping

Not listed

Line-up announced

20 artists so far

The story

Tunes On The Bay is a beachside festival that takes place at Swansea Beach in Swansea Bay, UK, over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend. The event features a lineup of national and international DJs and dance music acts, offering performances across genres like house, tech house, and hard dance. It includes licensed bars, food and drink vendors, and caters to all ages, creating a vibrant and energetic atmosphere.

Tunes On The Bay is a 4-day bass, drum and bass, electronic festival at Swansea Beach in TBA, TBA. The May 2027 edition runs 15–18 May 2027.

Announced so far: Alex Kidd, Will Atkinson, Argy X, Billy Gillies, Cally & Juice, DJ Hazard, DJ Hype and Eddie Halliwell and 12 more. Expect stages split between bass, drum and bass and electronic. The line-up is spread across the 4 festival days, so a full-weekend ticket is the only way to catch every name.

Everything happens at Swansea Beach, in TBA. Swansea · 0 km · about 0 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.

Tunes On The Bay keeps the same calendar slot each year: May 2027 for this edition, opening on a Saturday and closing on a Tuesday. It falls in spring, ahead of the summer festival rush, which usually keeps travel cheaper than the July and August dates. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in TBA are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.

• Held on May 1, 2027
• Location: Swansea Beach, Swansea Bay, UK
• All ages welcome
• High-energy lineup of DJs and dance music acts
• Licensed bars and food vendors available

Venue, camping & access

Venue type

Natural site

Best nearby base

Swansea · 0 km · about 0 min

Camping

No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.

Getting to the gates

The festival can be reached by walking or public transport from nearby accommodations.

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Tunes On The Bay works out at roughly €2,063 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 8% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.

Cheapest travel we price is air · 23h each way, at €1,657 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Tunes On The Bay are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
2. 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
3. 3Reserve 5 nights rather than 4: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow Tunes On The Bay on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Line-up, day by day

• Day 1 — Saturday 15 May

  Alex Kidd, Cally & Juice, Fish560ctagon, Kaos Brothers, MC Cover

• Day 2 — Sunday 16 May

  Will Atkinson, DJ Hazard, General Levy, Kimmic, Nicky Blackmarket

• Day 3 — Monday 17 May

  Argy X, DJ Hype, Ian Redman, Liam Wilson, Tidy Boys

• Day 4 — Tuesday 18 May

  Billy Gillies, Eddie Halliwell, Judge Jules, Lisa Lashes, Ultrabeat

Full line-up

Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.

Past editions

Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.

• 2026

  15–18 May 2026 (approx.)

  Regulars: Alex Kidd, Will Atkinson, Argy X

• 2025

  15–18 May 2025 (approx.)

  Regulars: Will Atkinson, Argy X, Billy Gillies

• 2024

  15–18 May 2024 (approx.)

  Regulars: Argy X, Billy Gillies, Cally & Juice

Travel tips from Paris

• The site itself is Swansea Beach, in TBA.
• The festival can be reached by walking or public transport from nearby accommodations.
• Book a bed in Swansea early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air23h · €1,657