full line-up announced for Evolution
Example, The Kills, Sub Focus, Brother, Billy Bragg, Bellowhead, & more
published: Thu 17th Feb 2011

Evolution Music Festival 2011
Saturday 28th to Sunday 29th May 2011Spillers Wharf, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
daily capacity: 33000
last updated: Wed 18th May 2011
Example, The Kills, Katy B, Sub Focus(DJ Set), Brother, Billy Bragg, and Bellowhead are amongst the array of acts completing the line-up for May's Newcastle's Evolution Music Festival.
Added to Sunday's Main Stage bill which is headlined by Plan B is Example, Darwin Deez, The Cuban Brothers, Spark, Not Squares, and Viva City.
Saturday on the Baltic Stage sees Katy B top a bill that includes Spank Rock, Jamie Woon, Thecocknbullkid, Gaggle, Django Django, Loose Talk Costs Lives, and Mammal Club.
The previously confirmed Caribou and Annie Mac head up a Sunday line-up of Sub Focus (DJ Set) and MC ID, Mount Kimbie, DJ Zinc, Breakage (live feat. Jess Mills), Doorly, Professor Ojo, and People Get Real.
Away from the throng in the Big Top on Ballast Hills Billy Bragg, and Bellowhead headline a line-up that includes CW Stoneking, Smoke Fairies, Pete Molinari, Karima Francis, Good Lovelies, and Cattle & Cane on Saturday and Kathryn Williams, Mama Rosin, Ellen and the Escapades, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Sam Carter, and Delta Maid on Sunday.
Festival Director, Jim Mawdsley explains, "We are continuing to build this event into a major music festival for the North of England. We have been working solidly since September to pull this line up together and it is without doubt the strongest and most varied to date. I'd say 'see you at the front' but I'm personally spoilt for choice and havent a clue what stage I'll be at when!"
Tickets are priced at £35 for the weekend, or £25 for a day ticket.
To buy tickets, click here.
Evolution Music Festival returns over two days again, with a crowd of 60,000 expected over the weekend and culminating in the outdoor shows at Spiller's Wharf and Baltic Square on the Gateshead quayside on the Bank Holiday weekend, Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th May 2011.
Evolution Music Festival 2011
Saturday 28th to Sunday 29th May 2011Spillers Wharf, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
daily capacity: 33000
last updated: Wed 18th May 2011
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