Off the back of a gloriously sunny weekend in Glasgow Green, TRNSMT festival has confirmed its 2023 dates.
Over 50,000 music fans gathered in Glasgow to catch the likes of Lewis Capaldi and Paolo Nutini as they headlined the Main Stage. After a successful weekend, the biggest festival in Scotland will be returning next year from July 7-9.
The weekend came to an end at sunset on Sunday night, as Bruises singer Lewis made his TRNSMT Festival return. Walking out to Faithless’ ‘Insomnia’ the beat drove right into the heart of the crowd, as he shouted: “Alright Glasgow let’s hear it!”. After his set, the Bathgate-born star was bouncing across the stage before launching into an encore of ‘Before You Go’ and ‘Somebody You Love’, while holding back tears as he sang.
As well as performing hits Grace and Forever, fans weren't disappointed as the hilarious musician launched into a rude tirade about how he had spent lockdown. He told the screaming crowd: “Glasgow how we ******* doing? It’s so ******* good to be back home. It’s good to be back.
“I’ve been sitting on my **** for three years. This is ******* incredible, thank you so ******* much for coming out to see me.” He added: “I was crying that last song - what a loser!”
After the biggest weekend yet, Geoff Ellis, festival director of cinch presents TRNSMT, said: “What an incredible weekend we’ve had. We had the sun shining on Glasgow Green, a fantastic line up of over 70 artists across four stages and 50,000 incredible fans every day - we really couldn’t have asked for more.
“Scotland’s very own Lewis Capaldi brought the sold-out festival to a close, which was a moment for the history books. The emotion-fuelled set saw fans singing every word back to him and Lewis threw in a few surprises for the crowd, with a rendition of Abba’s Dancing Queen and a chorus of happy birthday sang for his Tour Manager.
“It was great to welcome back international artists to Glasgow Green, but also to see excited music fans enjoying our best homegrown talent, with Paolo Nutini closing day one and The Snuts getting the crowd going on Saturday. Festivals are all about discovering the next big thing and this year, we put some of the brightest up and coming talent on the line-up.
"Brooke Combe, Dylan John Thomas, Rianne Downey, and BEMZ are just a few of the rising stars that stole the show and we can’t wait to see them on the main stage in the future. TRNSMT marks the halfway point in Scotland’s record-breaking summer of music and I’d like to thank the artists, the fans and everyone who works extremely hard behind the scenes to make this festival happen.”
From homegrown heroes like Paolo Nutini, SAINT PHNX, Nina Nesbitt, Lewis Capaldi, Dylan John Thomas and Connor Fyfe to the UK’s most celebrated acts like Sam Fender, The Strokes, Foals, Wolf Alice and Beabadoobee - TRNSMT was the place to be over the weekend.
The exclusive pre-sale for 2023 weekend tickets is available to 2022 ticket buyers, TRNSMT mailing list subscribers, and 3Mobile customers from 9am Wednesday, and general on sale is available from 9am Friday via www.trnsmtfest.com.
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