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The Licks : Oval Summer Sundays – Margate – Live Music

🎸 The Licks Live: Summer Sunday Concert at The Oval! 🌞🍻
Get ready for a high-energy Summer Sunday as The Licks bring their tight, crowd-firing rock party show to The Oval Bandstand. Known for their punchy sound and relentless energy, The Licks deliver wall-to-wall anthems that get the whole crowd singing, moving and fully involved from the first chord to the last encore.
Expect a hit-packed set of rock and indie favourites, big choruses, driving guitars and feel-good classics designed for an outdoor summer crowd. This is a band that knows how to read an audience and turn a relaxed Sunday into a proper live music moment.
Our popular Summer Sundays concert series is back, with even more live performances across a wide range of genres, all set against the open-air backdrop of The Oval Bandstand & Lawns.
- Doors, toilets and concessions open: 1pm – 5pm .
- Concert: 2pm – 4pm.
- A minimum £2 donation per adult on door (under 16’s no donation required).
- All persons under 18 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.
- A fully licensed bar and food is available (alcohol and food is not to be brought into venue, bag searches are in operation).
- Fully accessible toilet facilities are available.
- All seating areas have step-free access.
- There is no car parking at the venue, please use public transport, bicycles, or arrive on foot. There is very limited local car parking and charges may apply.
- Well behaved dogs are welcome, but they MUST be kept on a lead at all times whilst in the bandstand auditorium.
- Please refer to venue Terms & Conditions at www.theovalbandstand.co.uk
