Past editions
Three years on the harbour wall
One night in 2024, two days in 2025, three days and six stages this November. Everything that has happened here, including the parts we would rather forget.
Since 2024
91 artists paid
16,500 people
Artists paid since 2024
People through the gate
Workshops and clinics run
Crew and volunteer places
Three editions
One generator to six stages
2024 was one night and four hundred people. This is how it got from there to here, in the order it happened.
2024
One night, one generator, four hundred people
A borrowed rig on the customs shed roof and a bill of eleven acts who all knew each other. It rained for twenty minutes and nobody left.
400 people
2025
Two days, the wall opens
The harbour authority let us onto the sea defence for the first time. Two stages, the first drum line, and the year the sound problem got solved.
4,100 people
2026
Three days, six stages, the third edition
Forty-eight artists, thirty workshops, an exhibition programme and the late sessions in the fish market. The first year the whole thing is ticketed.
12,000 expected
What went wrong
Two things we got badly wrong
A history page with nothing in this section is a brochure. These are the two that cost people their evening.
2024
The sea took the top end and gave back a slap
The first year's main stage faced the water and the far wall returned everything about forty milliseconds late. It sounded like a delay pedal nobody had asked for. The rig now faces along the wall rather than across it.
2025
One gate for four thousand people
The Saturday queue reached the lighthouse and stayed there for an hour. There are three gates in 2026, and wristbands go out by post to anybody who books before October.
What people say
Ask the people who came
I came to play twenty minutes in the yard and left with a booker from Abidjan in my phone and a producer I still work with. Nobody is grandstanding here — it is a working weekend that happens to have a crowd.
Singer, played 2025
27–29 November 2026 · Jamestown
Get tickets.
Weekend passes are ₵420 until the end of September and go up after that. Under-twelves come free with an adult.
