by Trevor Bevins, Local Democracy Reporter.
A combat festival planned for Weymouth Beach is asking for a drinks licence for the event.
The festival, which will feature cage fighting, boxing, wrestling and other combat sports, will also have live music on two stages.
It is being billed at “the UK’s only music and combat sports festival.”
This year’s Coastal Combat Festival event is planned for August 1st but organisers say they would normally hope to run the event in July each year at the south end of Weymouth beach.
In an application for the premises licence which allows the sale of alcohol, proposed licence holder Mr Jordan Garnett, say the event will be large scale and will feature “top UK music acts, military displays, combat sports and other entertainment.”
Advertised performers include Angie Brown, Blu James, The Leggomen, Reba, J Herron, Milk and Two and Garcia the Band.
Publicity for the event also mentions a beach bodybuilding event, mixed martial arts, Thai boxing, cage fighting and submission grappling.
The licence applications says that wrestling will be held on an outdoor platform and boxing inside the main tent.
The application says there will be a small and a large music stage which is likely to be in use from mid-day until 10pm, starting an hour earlier on Saturdays with alcohol sales to coincide with those times.
Tickets for the event are advertised at £50 with tables of ten including champagne, cocktails and snacks from £600. The body building beach event from 11am to 1pm is ticketed separately at £27.80.
Further details suggest the event will be limited to 3,000 people with CCTV and trained security staff present and with routine bag checks. Children under 16 will be admitted but will have to be supervised by a responsible adult.
A consultation on the premises licence proposals ends on July 15th.
