Northeast Music Guide

Chase Park Festival 2015 Accessible to all, the festival has multiple runways and flat platforms to keep wheelchair users as near the action as possible. Signers (very enthusiastic and entertaining) made sure the hard of hearing didn't miss a word. Food was available from local traders..our personal favourite for a second year running, was Pizzette, a mobile stone cooked pizza van. When you're not into meat, you do often find your diet limited at festivals so this was a lovely change from chips. Chase Park Festival had a good start with sunshine and Beth Macari..her backing band made up mostly of 3 at Sea. Beth continues to develop her soulful pop sound. Beth knows how to engage the audience and was a formidable first act of the day. Patrick and Holly then treated us to a street-dance routine. This was fun! Would love to have joined in but my joints just don't do that!  Ambient electro beats from Soundbeams (from the Percy Hedley Foundation) kept the audience h...

Bigger, Better & Louder: Award-Winning Chase Park Festival Returns With Its Strongest Line-Up Yet Burn Baby Burn! Legendary Irish Rock Outfit Ash will headline the Gateshead event in August The all-inclusive family festival is set to attract thousands of music revellers to the region. Chase Park's line-up will feature its most eclectic line-up of established, emerging and disabled artists to date. Irish rock legends Ash have been confirmed to perform at the fifth annual Chase Park Festival in Gateshead this summer along with some of the nation's finest established and emerging talent. The family-friendly, open-air festival will feature two stages of live music on Saturday 8th August and will also welcome appearances from London's chart-topping indie folk foursome Turin Brakes , Sunderland's Field Music-backed outfit SLUG , Glasgow's post-pop assemble Monogram and Newcastle's soul-singing sensation, Beth Macari . The announcement of the festiva...