A line-up including global star Sean Paul and fellow rapper Tinie Tempah plus other big names such as Chase & Status, Patrick Topping and Craig David is set rock Newcastle when LooseFest returns this summer.
The festival billed as the region's biggest music event - which last year switched to a new outdoor city centre location on Newcastle's Town Moor - has announced it will be back on the August 5-6 weekend and it's going to be huge. Its biggest line-up to date also includes fellow headliners R&B star Craig David with his TS5 show; drum and bass favourites Chase & Status and Newcastle's Patrick Topping who will be hosting one of the festival stages under his Trick imprint.
Tickets will go on sale this Friday, February 17 for the festival whose giant site this time will feature a total of five music 'arenas' - each with its own look and host, covering everything from house, DnB and disco to techno, RnB and dance classics - as well as a street food village, a funfair and a range of bars and food vendors. Organisers will be expecting around 30,000 music fans a day - from across the UK - during the run.
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Another attraction will be a Bentley and Ferrari experience for VIP ticket-holders and this will also feature in the festival’s digital Multiverse whch made its debut last year. Besides headliners including Grammy Award-winning Jamaican rapper Sean Paul and British grime star Tinie Tempah, the ambitious festival has also signed up artists such as Ben Hemsley, Joel Corry, Andy C, Sub Focus, Dimension and Example plus top DJs like Franky Wah, Alan Fitzpatrick, Hot Since 82, Kettama, Jax Jones and Sigala.
LooseFest is inviting music fans to register online - see here - to secure early access to tickets two hours before they are released for general sale on February 17. Organisers say: "In 2022, LooseFest became the largest festival in history to take over Newcastle’s Town Moor.
"The LooseFest team have entered into a long-term partnership with the Freemen of Newcastle and the City Council to secure the future expansion of the site for many years to come, firmly cementing the North East on the UK festival map and beyond. Last year’s event was truly historic, transforming the area into an adult wonderland and, for 2023, the LooseFest team are taking things another step further."
They say that although the festival "does not currently offer on-site camping", the site's proximity to city centre accommodation and excellent transport links make it "one of the most easily accessible large-scale events in the country". LooseFest has grown quickly in scale and ambition since starting out in Herrington Park, Houghton-le-Spring, in 2021 and last year's event created hundreds of local jobs, used North East suppliers and added more than £12m to the economy, it says.
The team behind it, including people who have been involved with local events, venues, and festivals over the past decade, say that the 2023 LooseFest will be "bigger and better than ever". For updates keep an eye out on the festival's Instagram account.
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