Organisers of Southampton’s Jerk Jam Festival recently announced the cancellation of their 2025 edition, this follows their 2024 return after a weather-related cancellation in 2023.
“With the increasing cost of infrastructure and services, the Directors will struggle to cover the cost and time sacrificed by themselves and many others. We’ve considered further investment but the right people haven’t come along, and we don’t want to change our ethos.
We stepped into a post pandemic world that has seen many festivals fall by the way side, due to spiraling costs and many businesses get greedy with their pricing. It’s a roll of the dice we are unable to take this year and raising our prices to the level of commercial and corporate events is something we refuse to do.
We are proud to have brought the Jerk Jam Festival back from the ashes after COVID-19.
Moving from our old home to the new location in Botley, despite being hit incredibly hard with gale force winds in 2023 we braved the hardships to come back this past summer and put on one of our best ever shows with a crowd of over 3000 people!
We will still be putting together events next year so stay tuned to socials but for now the flagship festival, our big show, is taking a hiatus.”
