- Evolution Festival, UK
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Evolution Festival Location(s) Newcastle/Gateshead, England Years active 2002 - present Date(s) May Bank Holiday 2002 - 2011. Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday 2012 Genre Pop, Drum & Bass, Indie Website www.evolutionfestival.co.uk The Evolution Festival is a music festival held annually in areas across Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead, England since 2002. Its centre-piece is a four-stage event (Including the Emerging stage, which hosts the cream of the North-East's unsigned talent) held on Spring Bank Holiday Monday at three sites beside the River Tyne, though the festival also incorporates a series of other performances at venues around Newcastle and Gateshead in the preceding week. It has previously been known as Orange Evolution (Due to sponsorship by the Mobile Phone company). The outdoor elements of the event has subsequently been known as Freevolution and then 3volution (When a charge was introduced for the first time).
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History
Evolution Festival started life as a multi-venue festival in 2002. This also included a dance event promoted by shindig (The Newcastle based club night) on Baltic Square. In 2003 the full event took place on the Quayside for the first time headlined by Moloko. In 2004, due to funding/finance restrictions, Evolution returned to its multi-venue format, but still managed to produce again with Shindig. A 6000 capacity dance event headlined by Eric Morillo and Deep Dish. It returned to the Quayside in 2005, where it has remained since. The 2005 Festival consisted of a series of live music performances throughout Newcastle and Gateshead in the month of May. It was sponsored by the UK mobile phone network Orange and culminated on Bank Holiday Monday with a free three-stage event around the Spillers Wharf area of the Newcastle Quayside and the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. Over the next two years the number of ancillary events decreased with more focus on the culminating event. In 2008, the festival ended its sponsorship with Orange and rebranded itself as 'Evolution Festival', introducing a charge (of £3.00) for the Bank Holiday Monday festival for the first time. Some of this charge will be passed on to Wateraid, its official charity. In 2009, acts such as The Wombats and Dizzee Rascal headline the event with the festival now being a weekender festival. The festival is hosted on Sunday and Monday and tickets are priced at £15 per weekend ticket. For 2010 the festival added a third stage called 'Ballast Hills' which is the festivals new folk stage. The price of day tickets and weekends tickets were also increased to £25 for a weekend ticket and £17.50 for a Sunday or Monday ticket. The full line up for Evolution 2011 was released on Thursday 17 February with Iggy and the Stooges & Plan B Headlining. The festival will take place on the 28th and 29 May, and tickets will be priced at £35 for the weekend ticket and £25 for a day ticket. During October 2011 it was announced that the festival would return in 2012 over the Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend (Sunday 3rd and Monday 4th June) with the full line up announcement and on sale ticket details to be announced in early 2012. The festivals Facebook page also announced that there would be a price freeze for 2012 with weekend tickets priced at £35+bf and day tickets at £25+bf.
Line Up
Orange Evolution 05
Spiller's Wharf Baltic Square Quayside East - The Ordinary Boys
- Mylo
- Dogs Die In Hot Cars
- The Rakes
- El Presidente
- Dizzee Rascal
- Super Furry Animals
- The Colour
- Carbon Silicon
- Fightstar
- Hard-Fi
- Vatican DC
- Kubichek
- The Futureheads
- Boy Kill Boy
- The Others
- Vic Goddard
- Charles Walker
- Candi Staton
- Misty in Roots
- Mark Eitzel
- American Music Club
- 50 Foot Wave
- Martin Stephenson & The Daintees
Orange Evolution 06
Spiller's Wharf Baltic Square Quayside East - Hard-Fi
- The On Offs
- Graham Coxon
- Freestylers
- The Proclaimers
- Boy Kill Boy
- Sway
- Orson (band)
- The Go! Team
- Richard Hawley
- Jim Noir
- Field Music
- Liam Frost
- The Sunshine Underground
- Lorraine
- The Bulletproof Stonelove Soundsystem
- Indigo Colony
- Richie Havens
- Hayseed Dixie
- Legendary Shack Shakers
- The Handsome Family
- Holly Gollightly
- Morfo
- The Eighteenth Day Of May
Orange Evolution 07
Spiller's Wharf Baltic Square - Maximo Park
- Echo and the Bunnymen
- Joe Jackson
- The Enemy
- Kano
- Hot Club de Paris
- The Motorettes
- Seven Heroes
- Soulwax
- Nite Versions
- Calvin Harris
- Chromeo
- Simian Mobile Disco
- Datarock
- Shy Child
- Bonde do Role
- To My Boy
Evolution Festival 08
Spiller's Wharf Baltic Square - The Streets
- Kate Nash
- Reverend and the Makers
- Duffy
- Glasvegas
- Lightspeed Champion
- The Whip
- This Ain't Vegas
- CSS (band)
- New Young Pony Club
- Crystal Castles
- Does It Offend You, Yeah?
- Hercules and Love Affair
- Whomadewho
- The Ghost Frequency, Kinevil
Evolution Festival 09
Spiller's Wharf Sunday Spiller's Wharf Monday - The Wombats
- The Human League
- White Lies
- Imelda May
- Twisted Wheel
- The Puppini Sisters
- Detroit Social Club
- The Big Pink
- The Chapman Family
- Dizzee Rascal
- The View
- The Maccabees
- Little Boots
- Nouvelle Vague
- VV Brown
- Kid British
- Little Comets
- Marina and the Diamonds
Baltic Square Sunday Baltic Square Monday - Boys Noize
- Chase & Status
- Kissy Sell Out
- The Count & Sinden
- Krafty Kuts and MC Dynamite
- Rusko, Brodinski
- Japanese Popstars
- Yuksek
- James Yuill
- Doorly
- People Get Real
- TC Monckton
- Oli P
- Mystery Jets
- Friendly Fires
- Ladyhawke
- Esser
- Ebony Bones
- Dead Kids
- Fan Death
- Viva City
Evolution Festival 2010
Spiller's Wharf Sunday Spiller's Wharf Monday - Paolo Nutini
- Calvin Harris
- Tinchy Stryder
- The Futureheads
- Field Music
- Frankie & The Heartstrings
- Twenty Twenty
- Natalie Findlay
- Let's Buy Happiness
- Enter Shikari
- The Horrors
- De La Soul
- Ellie Goulding
- Dananananaykroyd
- Everything Everything
- Egyptian Hip Hop
- Minnaars
- Cosmo Jarvis
- Polarsets
Baltic Square Sunday Baltic Square Monday - Fake Blood
- Benga
- Rusko
- Scratch Perverts
- Beardyman
- Filthy Dukes
- Doorly
- Jamymo & Andy George
- Eskimo Twins
- People Get Real
- Delphic
- Hadouken!
- Example
- Frankmusik
- I Blame Coco
- Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
- Lonelady
- Mirrors
- Retriever
Ballast Hills Sunday Ballast Hills Sunday - The Unthanks
- King Greosote
- Po Girl
- James Hunter & The Jokers
- Dawnlandes
- John Smith
- JT Nero & Friends
- Donovan
- Baskery
- Lissie
- Smoove + Turrell
- Slow Club
- Danny & The Champions of the World
- Ben Howard
Evolution Festival 2011
Spiller's Wharf Saturday Spiller's Wharf Sunday - Iggy & The Stooges
- Two Door Cinema Club
- The Kills
- Brother
- Hercules & Love Affair
- Flashguns
- Bravestation
- Waiting For Winter
- Vinyl Jacket
- Plan B
- Tinie Tempah
- Example
- Darwin Deez
- Detroit Social Club
- The Cuban Brothers
- Spark
- Not Squares
- Viva City
Baltic Square Saturday Baltic Square Sunday - Katy B
- Spank Rock
- Jamie Woon
- Cocknbullkid
- Gaggle
- Django Django
- Loose Talk Costs Lives
- Mammal Club
- Toyger
- Caribou
- Annie Mac
- Sub Focus & MC I.D
- Mount Kimbie
- Zinc
- Breakage live & Jess Mills
- Doorly
- Professor Ojo
- People Get Real
Ballast Hills Saturday Ballast Hills Sunday - Billy Bragg
- CW Stoneking
- Smoke Fairies
- Pete Molinari
- Karima Francis
- Good Lovelies
- Cattle & Cane
- Bellowhead
- Kathyrn Williams
- Mama Rosin
- Ellen & The Escapades
- Hurray For The Riff Raff
- Sam Carter
- Delta Maid
- Note: Clare Maguire replaced Fenech Soler who were playing the Baltic Stage due to illness within the band.
- Note: Toyger replaced Clare Maguire who was playing the Baltic Stage due to a last minute cancellation.
Evolution Festival 2012
During October 2011 it was announced that the festival would return in 2012 over the Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend (Sunday 3rd and Monday 4th June) with the full line up announcement and on sale ticket details to be announced in early 2012. The festivals Facebook page also announced that there would be a price freeze for 2012 with weekend tickets priced at £35+bf and day tickets at £25+bf.
External links
Categories:- Rock festivals in England
- Culture in Newcastle upon Tyne
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