The Lakeside Stage is a chilled out affair, combining funky roots music, dub, reggae and spoken word. Pick up some delicious organic food and a nice cup of chai tea from the BeatRoot café and enjoy the weird and wonderful sounds emerging from the Pangaea Sound System.

The line up is yet to be confirmed, but if last year (see below) is anything to go by, it will be awesome.




Brought to you by Pangaea Sound System and

Is a vibrant spot to both chill-out in the sun (hopefully) and to listen to uplifting funky roots music and spoken-word, performed by locally based artists/bands with some guests travelling from further a field. Most of the performances will carry positive social messages, but not without sense of humour also. Expect to hear sounds solar powered by the sun, with flavours of the world from Folk to Funk, Roots to Reggae and ska and the more poetic side of rap music through to spoken word. This is with the added bonus visuals including backdrop of the lake, trees and the good work of our art team. If you’re feeling thirsty or peckish there’s also chai tea and cakes and other snacks from our friends the BeatRoot café.

SATURDAY

12pm drummed up

12.30pm The Crossings

1.30pm TBC

2.30PM EQUALISERS

3.45PM ALEX AND THE WANDER BAND

5PM BACK YARD RHYTHM ORCHESTRA

SUNDAY

12PM LUKE FLUTE + Bill Read

1PM RYTHMICAL DEMOCRATS

2PM Hannabiell & Midnight Blue

3PM CASH COWS 

4PM ROB HERON + TEA PAD ORCHESTRA

5PM DIDDLEY SQUAT

 

Rob Heron & the Tea Pad Orchestra
Contemporary music meets speakeasy sounds for the hip cats to jive to.

Backyard Rhythm Orchestra
Brand new allstar Newcastle band featuring lots of familiar faces on the Newcastle music scene..
Playing a wide ranging set of Consicious lyrics meeting Bigband styles including Reggae, Gospel, Cumbia, hiphop and Ska styles..

Hannabiell & Midnight Blue
Award winning melodic rhythm ensemble with a mixture of African drumming, reggae, jazz and funk music.
www.hannabiell.com

The Equalisers
Darlingtons smooth reggae exporters. http://www.myspace.com/theequalisersuk/music/songs/Surfin-Live-at-The-Forum-29-01-10-63911303

Luke the Flute & Bill Read
Homebrewed, Northumbrian, Folk, Poetry, Guitar, Vocals and Flute.

Rhythmical Democrats
New band featuring members of green festival favourites CashCows and the 27 Club. Not sure what to expect but we'd expect it to be good..http://www.reverbnation.com/therhythmicaldemocrats

Alex and the Wanderband
http://soundcloud.com/luka-bear/sets/alex-and-the-wander-band/
Alex and the Wander-Band are a modern acoustic folk outfit playing a mix of old timey American music, Gypsy Jazz and traditional folk, all in a Wander- Band kind of way. Featuring; guitar, trumpet, banjo, double-bass, fiddle and cajon.

The Crossings Band

A band comprised of international musicians living in Newcastle plus some local faces covering music from throughout a world without borders.
http://www.crossings.org.uk/band.php

Northumberland’s finest reggae band climb down from of their tree houses to entertain with songs of pirates, soup, camel riding, and conscious vibes in a dub, reggae, folky, ska style.

http://www.myspace.com/cashcowsrock