Tickets
Your festival ticket includes all four days for £280. Book early for our earlybird rate of £240.
Both tickets have a booking fee of £1.25 (£1.50 after 3 August 2026) making them £281.25 and £241.25 in total.
More artists will be announced in August, and a full day-by-day listing will be published in September.
Click here to book your Shadowlands tickets now.
Coming Soon: Payment Plan
We are developing a payment plan to spread the cost of your tickets across 3 months.
Your ticket will be reserved and then released following the final payment. We aim to have the plan live as an option before the end of July 2026.
If you are interested in the payment plan option, please email boxoffice@kent.ac.uk and we will contact you when it goes live.
Stay at Shadowlands
Shadowlands takes place on the beautiful University of Kent campus in Canterbury.
For the full festival experience why not stay on campus, in one of our 4 and 5 star rated rooms?
Select from B&B or self-catered accommodation, all just minutes away from the Shadowlands venues.
For more detail click below. Note accommodation for the festival will go on sale from September 2026.
Getting here
Situated at the heart of the University of Kent campus in Canterbury, Gulbenkian is easily reached by foot from Canterbury, public transport and car.
By foot
Canterbury West station is around a 25-minute walk from the campus. You can view the journey on google maps. You will turn left out of the station and walk to the end of the road. Just after the ‘Goods Shed’ market on your left, take the footpath on the left and take the subway under the railway line. The University is signposted on blue signs from here.
By bus
There are buses every 10 minutes from Canterbury bus station to campus: either the Unibus 1, Unibus 2, or the Triangle services. This journey takes approximately 15 minutes. For more information on getting here by bus, please visit the Transport Stagecoach bus travel page.
By train
We are only a 30 minute walk from Canterbury West station, or a 15 minute journey using the UNI1 or UNI2 bus departing every 10 minutes. The station is served by hourly Southeastern trains towards London Charing Cross, London St Pancras, Margate, and Ramsgate. Southeastern trains travel page
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University of Kent
Canterbury
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