Dashville is an exceptional regional live music facility. A pristine bushland festival and concert venue with it’s own campground located 40mins west of Newcastle, NSW.

You may be familiar with Dashville for the long running boutique grassroots festivals they promote, these include The Gum Ball (21yrs), Dashville Skyline (11yrs), Thrashville (8yrs), which are generally held each year for upwards of 3000 people camping onsite.

As the 21yr old venue grows and diversifies into 2027, Dashville is pitching to host more regular one-off concerts, as a way to continue the growth of it’s local audience and to assist with the ongoing management of the regional venue, outside of festival operations.

CONCERT VENUE OVERVIEW

EVENT: Exclusive Concert aka ‘Dashville Nights’ now booking for 2025/26.

DATE WINDOWS: September through to June is peak time to host a concert at Dashville. We have festivals in early October (Dashville Skyline) and late April (The Gum Ball), and late June (Thrashville) so ideally a few weeks before or after those is a good idea.

LOCATION: ‘Dashville’, is a destination venue, located at 103 Kirkton Rd,Lower Belford, Hunter Valley NSW. This venue would form the Newcastle option for any touring.

TIME OF PERFORMANCE/S: Generally held on a Friday 6-11pm or Saturday 4-11pm. Midnight noise curfew.

STAGING OPTIONS: For events up to 800 people, we use existing permanent venue infrastructure and in-house production. ‘The Middle Stage’ which is accessible and fed by 3 phase diesel generator. See pics of this stage option below.

For events beyond 800, venue provides temporary stage infrastructure, to suit production requirements. See pics of the various staging options below.

TICKET PRICE: to be determined by agent. Suggested price range for adult is $80-120. Main ticket option must include camping fee ($30 adult/$15 youth) presented on top of ticket. Other ticket options include combined event + bus ticket, breakfast, hospitality packages, tent hire, powered sites, etc

STANDARD ARTIST DEAL:

Dashville will negotiate a standard ticket split. Ticket percentage is determined by anticipated capacity and production requirements.

Generally the ticket split will be between 70-90%, in artists favour, as the venue makes additional income through onsite camping.

PARTICULARS (all negotiable)

VENUE
• Dashville provides the entire venue facility, including all parking requirements, public and private camping, ushers, covered spaces, sanitary facilities, hospitality services for up to 3200 people, including back of house facility for all artists, staging and production crew.

• Venue provides requested artist hospitality rider.

• Venue supplies all power requirements and considers green power options.

• Venue provides stage and has multiple staging options for consideration.

• Venue supplies all production requirements. In-house system is suitable for up to 800 persons. All venue PA equipment can be utilised to support larger PA system requirements. Production is an incredibly important component that will form the basis for initial negotiations.

• Dashville provides onsite camping area for artist and crew, and can assist with supply of any tents or camping equipment.

• Dashville provides a space to sell merch and can provide merchant services at an agreed % cost.

• Venue has a range of backline guitar/bass amps, drumkits and antique equipment available for hire.

• Venue operates online ticketing (Humanitix) and gate accreditation staff, including security and event management. Additional third part ticketing allocations can be negotiated

• Venue contributes direct promotion to the Dashville festival community, a captive live music audience.

• Venue can provide ancillary event activity to compliment event and support sales for the show. Example, can include a Sunday morning Yoga retreat or gardening workshop.

ARTISTS
• To deliver themselves, including travel costs and lodgings beyond onsite camping.

• Artist has option to afford all support acts, and must include at least one local act.

• Artist to afford suitable co-promotion of the show.

STAGE OPTIONS

Dashville can accommodate show capacity anywhere between 200 and 3000 people. The beauty with this live music venue, is that you can put the event on sale and as it gets closer, you can adjust/pivot the stage set up according to the ticket sales.