The Piper

17/06/2026

📣 SYDFEST!
📆 11th July – 5pm-12pm
🎟 Tickets on sale via The Piper website now.

🌀 Some of the best contemporary psych bands in the country come together to celebrate the the unveiling of Syd Barrett's floorboards, as featured on the cover of The Madcap Laughs LP.

⚡Featuring THE BLACK DOLDRUMS, INDEX FOR WORKING MUSIC, THE EMBROOKS, BOBBY ZODIAC AND THE CLAIRVOYANTS, THE GREAT SILKIE and THE CLOCKS plus DJ sets from TELEGRAM SAM and CHARLIE (TOY). All profits from the event to go to Mind.

🔶🔷 Part of The Madcap’s Lasting Laugh, an eight-day festival featuring Bernard Butler, T***k and Ozric Tentacles, Rob Chapman plus more to be announced. 4th-11th July 🔷🔶

17/06/2026

📣 SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND - Panel discussion and film screening
📆 Monday 6th July

With
🪷Jerry Shirley (Humble Pie), Rob Chapman (Syd biographer). Ian Barrett (Syd's nephew) and T***k (Pink Fairies, Tomorrow) + very special guests

🗯 Hosted by Tony Higgins

Followed by:
🌀 EXPLODERS - a film about the EXPLODING GALAXY ‘67-69.
Intro by director Jill Drower with special guest!

🔶🔷Part of The Madcap's Lasting Laugh, an eight-day festival featuring Bernard Butler, T***k and Ozric Tentacles, Rob Chapman plus more to be announced. 4th-11th July.🔷🔶

When Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett painted the floorboards of his London flat blue and orange in 1969, he could never have imagined that over fifty years later, they would be the subject of an intense auction bidding war, end up on display in a venue renowned for its programme of fiercely independent music and be at the heart of an 8-day festival celebrating all things psychedelic.

The painted floorboards graced the cover of Syd’s debut 1970 album, The Madcap Laughs, in what is now an iconic image of the era. Rather than being whisked overseas or hidden in a private collection, the colourful planks are set to be unveiled then displayed at The Piper, a south coast grass roots music venue in St Leonards, near Hastings, named after the 1967 debut album by Pink Floyd, ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’.

The party to celebrate the unveiling of the boards runs from 4th-11th July, the 20th anniversary of Barrett’s death.

16/06/2026

⚡And the times for Saturday's Strummerville on Sea show are here! Don't miss this one! CHIMER, Y and SILVERWINGKILLER are all FIRE right now.

🎟 Tickets via The Piper website!

🎶 Strummerville DJs (bar): 4pm-5.30pm
🎧 Jenn Crothers (bar): 5.30pm-7.30pm

Venue doors: 7.30
🔔 CHIMER: 8pm
👾 Y: 8.45pm
🦇SILVERWINGKILLER: 9.45-10.30pm
🫦 Killer Kiss (bar): 10.30pm-2am

16/06/2026

Only a few tickets left!

🌊 Can’t wait to get back to St Leonards for this up close and personal show on Friday 11th September at The Piper. Should be a fun one! (And not many tickets left!) 🤘🪗🍻

🎟️ tickettailor.com/events/thepiper/2209715

15/06/2026

📣 LATER YOUTH at The Piper on Thursday 18th June

🎟 Tickets on sale now

🍂 Since fronting Manchester indie-folk favourites THE TRAVELLING BAND, Jo Dudderidge has built a reputation as a producer, songwriter and session musician, working with an impressive roster of artists including Victoria Canal, Chloe Foy, Rose Gray, Stephen Fretwell, Human Interest, Joyeria, Bette Smith, and longtime collaborator Lissie.

🍏 Debut album Living History is a bold statement with a distinctive character, sonically centred on Dudderidge's signature Wurlitzer electric piano and unmistakable voice, blending raw, heart-on-sleeve lyricism with a fresh, idiosyncratic style veering from krautrock to alt-country.

💥 "Chock full of more hooks and melodies than most indie conventions" ★★★★ Mojo
💥 "A richly textured collection that brims with vulnerability, self-destruction and sonic wanderlust" AmericanaUK

15/06/2026

⚽️ Watch Wednesday's Men's World Cup game on a big screen! The Piper will be screening ENGLAND Vs CROATIA from 8pm. FREE! First 50 in only!

15/06/2026

📣 THE CAVALIERS play The Piper on 8th August!

🎟 Tickets on sale to The Piper mailing list Thursday 10am
🎟 Tickets on general sale Friday 10am

🔥 THE CAVALIERS return for their first public outing since headlining last year’s Hastings Music & Beer Festival. Renowned for their hugely energetic live shows, The Cavaliers have been the top pick of function bands in the south east, dominating for over a decade.

🛼Yet even now, catching them live remains elusive for some, so with limited tickets available and a run of sold-out shows behind them, you don’t want to sleep on this.

15/06/2026

📣 NUBIYAN TWIST to play The Piper on October 11th! A special, early Sunday session 5pm-8.30pm

Tickets on sale to The Piper mailing list Thursday 10am
Tickets on general sale Friday 10am

🔥 Expect ultra-tight musicianship and unstoppable energy as Nubiyan Twist bring their electrifying blend of jazz, afrobeat, soul, hip-hop and dance music to the stage with a brand new line-up and live show for 2026.

✨ Known for their powerful big-band sound and uplifting live shows, the 9-piece collective fuse global grooves with UK jazz finesse, percussive fire and deep, infectious rhythm.

🫶 Following their acclaimed collaborations with musical icons including Nile Rogers, Tony Allen, Seun Kuti and Fatoumata Diawara, the band continue to push boundaries uniting cultures, generations and genres through music that celebrates connection, freedom and groove.

15/06/2026

🎺 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! Kid Kapichi play The Piper on Fri 24 September!

🎟 Tickets on sale to The Piper mailing list this Thursday 10am.
🎟 Tickets on general sale this Friday 10am.

🔥 Kid Kapichi return for a blistering fifth year of Piper action at their annual semi-acoustic show. Don’t miss this very rare chance to see the Hastings and St Leonards icons up-close in a teeny venue!

📢 Kid Kapichi shows at The Piper are always really special and sell fast! Don't snooze on this one.

With Kid Kapichi

14/06/2026

📣 LESS THAN A WEEK TO GO! Cutting Teeth & The Piper present STRUMMERVILLE-ON-SEA 🌊

💥 SILVERWINGKILLER
💥 Y
💥 CHIMER

DJ Jenn Crothers and afterparty with Killer Kiss

📆 Saturday 20th June
🕓 4pm – 2am

A night of new music, chaos, noise and underground energy from some of the most exciting bands around right now.

🎟 On sale now