The Sesh Bars supply a complete mobile bar for festivals, outdoor events, and community gatherings across London and the South East. Our units are built for outdoor operation — generator-ready, weatherproof, and staffed by licensed bartenders who know how to keep a queue moving at volume. All-inclusive festival packages start from £4,800.
Festival bar hire from The Sesh Bars provides outdoor-ready mobile bar units and licensed bartenders for festivals, community events, and multi-day outdoor gatherings across London and the South East. All-inclusive packages start from £4,800 for up to 200 guests across a single-day session and include batch cocktails, bottled beer, cider, wine, soft drinks, and a full bartender crew. Units are generator-ready with integrated water tanks, deploy on grass or hard standing, and include weatherproof gazebo structures. The Sesh Bars handles all logistics including site visits, power supply assessment, load-in routing, and licensing advice for Temporary Event Notices. Multi-bar configurations for events of 500+ guests are quoted individually.
Festival bars demand equipment that works without a building around it. Our mobile units operate independently of mains power — generator sets are available — and carry integrated water tanks for bar hygiene. Units deploy on grass, gravel, hard standing, or decking. We carry weighted gazebo structures for weather cover when the site has none.
The crew arrives with a full site kit: cable management, spill containment, signage, and waste bins. Glassware is plastic-free where festival licensing permits — we default to tempered glass for formal events and can switch to recyclable plastic cups for high-volume or crowded-site events on request. Setup takes 90 minutes for a single unit; multi-bar festival configurations are planned with a dedicated site visit.
Festival crowds want speed and choice in equal measure. Our festival bar menu anchors on batch cocktails — pre-mixed in quantity and served over ice in seconds — alongside bottled beer, canned cider, soft drinks, and a short spirits list for simple serves. This model keeps queue times under two minutes per order at volume.
For boutique and food festivals where dwell time is higher, we run a full cocktail menu alongside the speed bar. Popular festival serves include the Espresso Martini, Aperol Spritz, Velvet Bramble, and Garden Gimlet. Non-alcoholic cocktails are available on every festival package at no extra charge. See the full cocktail menu for individual drink prices and options.
Pre-mixed, fast serve, full flavour
Beer, cider, soft drinks, water
Non-alcoholic cocktails on every package
All-inclusive festival bar hire starts from £4,800 for events up to 200 guests across a single-day session. This covers the full drinks package — cocktails, beer, cider, wine, soft drinks — plus licensed bartenders, the bar unit, glassware or cups, ice, setup, and strike. Multi-day festival configurations and cash bar setups are quoted separately based on session length and site requirements.
Cash bar models — where guests pay for individual drinks — carry a £500 booking fee and a £2,000 minimum bar spend across the event. Dry hire (bar unit, staff, and equipment only) starts from £350. Generator hire is available as an add-on where site power is unavailable. Travel to festival sites within the M25 is included; sites beyond the M25 carry a mileage supplement. See our cost guide for a full pricing breakdown or view all packages.
Up to 200 guests, single day
+ £2,000 min spend
Bar, staff, equipment
All prices exclude VAT. Final quote depends on guest count, session length, site access, and drink specification.
Festival bar hire covers a wider range of events than most people expect. Beyond music festivals, we serve food and drink festivals, charity fun days, school and community fetes, village fairs, sporting events, and outdoor cinema screenings across London. Street food markets in Bermondsey, Peckham, and Hackney regularly book our bar units alongside their food vendor lineup. Corporate summer parties with a festival theme — increasingly popular at venues with outdoor space in Shoreditch, Stratford, and along the Regent's Canal — use our multi-bar configurations with branded menus.
For smaller outdoor gatherings that are closer to a garden party than a festival, our private event bar hire or garden party bar hire packages may be a better fit. For indoor corporate events with festival theming, see our corporate event bar hire page. All festival packages include access to our full event cocktail menu.
If your event needs bartender staffing but you already have a bar structure on-site, our professional bartender hire service provides experienced licensed staff without the bar unit. This is common for established festival sites that have permanent bar infrastructure but need reliable staff for peak weekends.
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