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UK’s largest music festival comes to Newcastle

THE UK’s largest music festival comes to Tyneside this weekend to raise money for Oxfam’s fight against world poverty.

Local musicians Guessmen, The Turing Test, Mammal Club, and many more will be performing at multiple venues across Newcastle including the Cluny 2, Nancy’s Bordello and The Tanners.

The show forms part of Oxjam month of music, which runs through the whole of October.

Oxjam hosts thousands of fundraising events organised put on by ordinary people – from large-scale festivals to local sponsored busks – making it the biggest line-up of any music festival in the UK.

Organiser Jennifer Blease said: “We’re really excited to be playing our part in making Newcastle part of a month-long musical celebration right across the country.

“Even more importantly, this gig is all about showing that the best in local music can have a global impact too – for example, just £7 could feed a family, and £10 can buy five bags of seeds.

“So everyone who comes along can rest assured that as well as having a great time, they’ll be helping to change lives around the world too.”

During October, more than 950 venues, 2,000 volunteers, 6,000 bands and musicians and 135,000 audience members nationwide will enable Oxjam to raise £500,000 to help Oxfam fight poverty.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .