Around 60,000 music fans will be flocking to the Town Moor this weekend for two days of non-stop entertainment.
What's being billed as the region's biggest ever music festival will be getting the party started on Saturday with a line-up headlined by Black Eyed Peas. And day two of LooseFest - which will take up a huge new central location on the Town Moor in Newcastle - will see Good Luck singer Mabel in top spot in a playlist which is packed with big names.
Among the 70-plus artists playing across several stages over the weekend are Patrick Topping, Tinchy Stryder and - following his recent appearance on Love Island - DJ Joel Corry, who'll be adding to Saturday's bill. The festival site, where building work has been taking place over several days, will also include a food village, a big top, carnival, ferris wheel, installations and luxury toilet facilities.
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Dean Saunders, a director of the team behind the event, said: "We can’t wait for everyone to come down and enjoy not just the music but the whole LooseFest experience all weekend long. We want this to become the annual event in everyone’s calendar."
He added: “The team has worked tirelessly to make sure that we deliver a music festival that the whole city and region can be proud of." Other names on the festival programme, which takes in retro, pop, disco and tech house, include Paul Woolford, Disciples, Flip n Fill, Clean Bandit, Jamie Jones, Lee Foss, Wilkinson, AJ Tracey, Dimitri From Paris, Hybrid Minds and Roger Sanchez.
Others include Example, Jonas Blue, Sigala, Alan Fitzpatrick, Bru-C and Solardo. Here's the line-up and the stage timings but remember times can be subject to change.
Saturday, July 30
Open Air Arena
12noon - Eurasia
1pm - an early set by special guest Joel Corry
2pm - Shane Codd
3pm - Jess Bays
4pm - Low Steppa
5pm - Paul Woolford
6pm - Young T & Bugsey
6.30pm - Example
8pm - Clean Bandit
9.30pm - Black Eyed Peas
Glitterbox
12noon - local support from Peverell
1.30pm - Sophie Lloyd
3pm - Spiller
4.30pm - Dimitri from Paris
6pm - Mousse T
7.30pm - DJ Spen
9pm - Roger Sanchez
Kaluki
12noon - Sorley
1pm - Alisha
2pm - special early set by Patrick Topping
4pm - Pirate Copy B28; Manda Moor
6pm - Yousef
7.30pm - Waff
9pm - Solardo
Lovedough Marquee
12noon - Local Residents
3.30pm - Simba Shore
4pm - Kenny Allstar
5pm - Jbee
5.30pm - SwitchOTR
6pm - Big Narstie
Utopiar
6.30pm - Local Residents
8pm - Belters Only
9pm - Local Residents
Sunday, July 31
Open Air Arena
12noon - Chris Shaw
12.40pm - Thomas Hannett
1.20pm - Felix Leiter
2pm - Ferreck Dawn
4pm - Luude
5pm - Sigala
6pm - Disciples
7.15pm - Jonas Blue
8.30pm - Mabel
9.45pm - AJ Tracey
Repopulate Mars
12noon - Charlie Hepworth & Josh Weekes B2B
1pm - Lindsey Matthews
2pm - Christoph
3.30pm - Detlef B2B Latmun
5pm - Andrea Oliva
6.30pm - Alan Fitzpatrick
7.30pm - Lee Foss
9pm - Jamie Jones
Worried About Henry
12noon - Julian B2B Ollie
12.50pm - GH B2B JTD
1.40pm - Kaz
2.30pm - Kara
3.30pm - AMA
4.30pm - K-Motionz
5.30pm - Kings of the Rollers
6.30pm - Bru-C
7.30pm - Bou
8.30pm - Hybrid Minds
9.30pm - Wilkinson
Mixtape Marquee
12noon - Local Residents
3.15pm - Phats & Small
4.15pm - Tinchy Stryder
4.45pm - Joe Gullis
5.30pm - Flip n Fill
6.30pm - Ian Van Dahl,
7.15pm - Olly James
8pm - Ultrabeat
9pm - Andy Whitby
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