White Air - Music and Extreme Sports Festival

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 - Sun, 20 Sep 2009

Europe's Biggest Extreme Sports and Music Festival comes to Brighton for 2 Nights of Music & 3 Days of Extreme Sports

Music Acts include: White Lies, The Cribs and British Sea Power

After 12 awesome festivals on the Isle of White, Europe's premier ticketed extreme sports and music festival, White Air, moves to Brighton Beach.

The 2009 festival programme will feature this year's number-one selling success story, post-punk quartet White Lies, cult indie-rockers The Cribs and hometown legends, British Sea Power alongside other established acts and some of the hottest new bands around.

2 nights of music and 3 days of fantastic extreme sports such as World High Diving displays from a 30m tower into a 3m pool, Windsurfing, Thundercats, Jet Skis, Mixed Martial Arts, Scuba Diving and lots, lots more.

At White Air's core is a huge Urban Freesports Park with the biggest and best ramps to be seen anywhere and more than ten sports including Skate, BMX, Inline, Parkour, Mtn bike, Mtn Board, Streetboard, Streetdance, Graff jams, and guaranteed adrenaline rushes for all.

Almost all of the 40 sports at White Air will have a 'Have a Go?' element where visitors can watch top sports men and women, then 'have a go?' themselves with tuition from the world's best.

The White Air site is east of Brighton Pier. Almost one mile of beach will host up to 50,000 people over the weekend.

Sports competitions and displays include: Red Arrows displays, FMX, Surfing, Kitesurfing, Windsurfing, Slackline, Ropeboarding, Thundercats, Jet Ski, Aquathlon, Triathlon, London to Brighton road race, Sailing, High Diving, Streetboarding, Mini Moto, SUP, Mountain Board, Skateboard, BMX, Mountain Bike, Graffiti Street Wars, Parkour, Powerfan, Bocking, Trials Bike, Wakeboard, Beach Volley Ball, Mixed Martial Arts, Falcons Parachute displays, Streetdance, Scuba Diving, Gliding, Climbing, Assault Course, Zip Wire, Kayak, YoYoing... and more!

Further sports and music acts to be announced.

Tickets:
Available from White Air (http://www.whiteair.co.uk) and Ticketmaster (http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk)
Limited Early Bird Weekender Tickets Now On Sale

Ticket Prices:
Adult £60 + booking fee
Student/Under 16s £55 + booking fee
VIP and Family tickets are also available

White Air and History
Founded by World Champion Windsurfer and British Kitesurfing Champion, Nigel Howell, this will be the event's first year on the beach at Brighton. "After 12 great years, we needed a bigger site which was easy for everyone to reach?", says Nigel Howell.

From humble beginnings and 30 windsurfers meeting on a desolate beach to compete against each other - White Air continues to expand and this year introduces more action sports in the water and on land than ever before.

As well as music fans and extreme sports enthusiasts, the festival is for families and first timers - 8000 'Have a Go?' sports tasters have been tried at White Air.

Power/Sail: Power and Sail
Type of Event: Festival