Underage festival

Underage Festival
The Domino 15th Anniversary Stage at Underage Festival 2008
Genre	Various, primarily Rock, Pop, Indie
Dates	Early August (2nd/8th/10th)
Location(s)	Victoria Park, London
Years active	2007-2011
Founded by	Sam Kilcoyne Eat Your Own Ears
Website
Official Website

The Underage Festival is a music festival which took place in Victoria Park, London. It was open to 13 to under 17 year olds, and only those within this age limit were allowed entry to the festival. The festival took place at the beginning of August each year. There were five main stages, the Converse Century Main Stage, the NME Stage, the Topman New Music Stage, the Domino Stage (aptly named the "Domino 15th Anniversary Stage" for the label's 15th anniversary of creation in 2008), and the Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage. As well as this, some of the smaller features included the Habbo Dj Tent, the CM Tower Hamlets Music Space Stage, and the Artrocker Signing Tent. 2008's event also included a MySpace bus, where secret sets and interviews with bands took place.

The festival evolved out of a series of club nights held in the Elephant and Castle area of South London, hosted and organised by Sam Kilcoyne, (the teenage son of Barry 7 from Add N to (X) and current member of the band S.C.U.M) after he was refused admission to a Buzzcocks gig due to his age (he was fourteen years old at the time). These grew popular with preteens and teenagers, even receiving press coverage in broadsheet national newspapers (The Guardian, to name one) and the BBC's arts programmes who reported this as a "youthquake".

Following the planned 2012 event's cancellation, no further editions have taken place.

The event was scheduled to be held on 31 August. On 27 July it was announced that due to production issues and the new location, the festival had been cancelled for 2012. Organisers stated they were hopeful of returning to the old site in 2013.