Evolution Weekender 2010

When: 30/05/2010 - 31/05/2010

The North East's largest festival returns with knock out performances from Paolo Nutini, Enter Shikari, Calvin Harris, The Horrors, Delphic, The Unthanks, Donovan and many more.

Kicking things off with a large dose of panache, Sunday 30 May will see the Spillers Wharf Stage headlined by incomparable Scottish troubadour Paolo Nutini. Fellow Scot and bona fide pop star Calvin Harris, Brit Rap sensation Tinchy Stryder and indie tearaways The Futureheads will also be making highly anticipated appearances on the Spillers stage on the Sunday, alongside cutting edge sounds from Frankie & The Heartstrings, Twenty Twenty, Natalie Findlay and Let’s Buy Happiness.

Post Hardcore four-piece Enter Shikari will head-up Evolution’s bank holiday Monday line up. Other acts confirmed to rock the Spillers Stage include NME Album of the Year winners The Horrors, daisy age hip-hop legends De la Soul and BBC Sound of 2010 and BRITS Critics’ Choice winner Ellie Goulding. Plus there will be sets from breakthrough artists Dananananaykroyd, Everything Everything, Egyptian Hip Hop, Minnaars, Cosmo Jarvis and Polarsets.

The Baltic Stage is all about heads down no nonsense dancing on Sunday with a cavalcade of speaker-smashing beats and bass from dancefloor messiah Fake Blood plus Benga, Rusko, Scratch Perverts, Beardyman, Filthy Dukes, Doorly, Jaymo & Andy George, Eskimo Twins and People Get Real. The bank holiday Monday will see some altogether edgier indie dance crossover action including performances from Manchester’s bright new things Delphic and  Hadouken! Example, Frankmuzik, I Blame Coco, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, Lonelady, Mirrors and Retriever.

Evolution’s two existing main stages will be joined in 2010 by an incredible, brand new folk and roots stage; the Ballast Hills Stage. The line-up will include turns from the critically acclaimed The Unthanks and King Creosote, Po Girl, James Hunter & The Jokers, Dawn Landes, John Smith and JT Nero & Friends. Monday’s sounds meanwhile come courtesy of venerable folk colossus Donavan on his farewell tour and Baskery, Lissie, Smoove & Terrell, Slow Club, Danny & The Champions Of The World and Ben Howard.

With weekend tickets at only an astonishing £25.00, Evolution offers the North East’s most amazing array of bands and bank holiday fun all on the banks of the Tyne.