Brighton Psych Fest is arriving this August in the heart of our vibrant city! Brought to you by JOY., along with the team behind Manchester Psych Fest & Edinburgh Psych Fest, this brand-new, one-day, multi-venue festival celebrates psychedelic music in Brighton’s most iconic venues.

Brighton’s JOY. Concerts have been awarded the contract for the 360 °delivery of Black Deer Festival, including the full event management, programming, technical production, and marketing. The new operator will handle every aspect of the event’s delivery, embarking on what will be a very exciting chapter for the festival.

“The team at JOY. are extremely excited to be involved in Black Deer Festival. It is a fantastic festival with a unique position in the UK festival market. We share a common vision for the future of the event with the board and we are very excited to help establish what is already an incredibly strong brand as a leading independent festival in the UK” – JOY. Concerts

Founded in 2018, Black Deer Festival has won awards such as Music Event of the Year at the 2019 Event Production Awards and Promoter of the Year at the 2022 UK Festival Awards.

JOY. Concerts are a leading independent concert and festival organiser whose team have been delivering events around the UK for the past 15 years for some of the world’s leading artists. Producing around 200 concerts & festivals per annum across a broad spectrum of genres. JOY. promote Brighton’s annual On The Beach Festival (60,000 capacity) as well as operating Concorde2 (650 capacity) one of the UK’s leading independent grassroots music venues.