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🎉 COMPETITION TIME! WIN TWO TICKETS TO LAST TRAIN HOME MUSIC & COMEDY FESTIVAL! 🎉

Some of you know we have an irregular newsletter that goes direct to inboxes roughly once a year. Well, with the dreaded social media algorithms making it harder to reliably get info out to our followers, we're going to try to make better use of it!

Our tiny team will be sending more news by email, in the hope that more of you will see what's happening before the events, rather than the day after!

It won't be tonnes of annoying marketing, just:
🤓 the occasional update to let you know what we're up to
🎤other exciting music and other arts are coming to our area courtesy of the fab music community and
🔖where you can nab tickets.

But of course, a newsletter is nothing without readers! So to try and get the next newsletter off to a good start, we're asking you to please subscribe, and maybe WIN.

📣 Head to our website (link in bio and in the comments), scroll to the bottom of the page, and subscribe to our newsletter. Anyone who signs up before 5pm on Monday 06 July will go in the draw to win TWO TICKETS to Last Train Home Festival! 📣

Having a fabulous afternoon so far Darlington Community Carnival Hopetown Darlington brilliant sets from Hard Times, The Dead Seat Los Capitanes Tamla All Stars and just getting set up for our headliners The Belta Reivers 😎🤩 Lots of fun on the Big Little Gigs stall too 🥰 Enjoy Darlington Darlington Borough Council

TODAY! Gonna be a warm one! Come join us for an afternoon of live music, stalls, food and crafts Darlington Community Carnival Hopetown Darlington We’ve got some mint live bands playing with music starting at 12pm-5pm with Hard Times, The Dead Seat Los Capitanes Tamla All Stars and geordie lads The Belta Reivers bringing some upbeat fun folk to headline the afternoon. Plus Big Little Gigs with musical crafts for the kids 🥰🌞😎 Enjoy Darlington The Northern Echo Darlington Borough Council Creative Darlington

Great to be providing some top live music Darlington Community Carnival on Saturday 27th June Hopetown Darlington In a slight change to the line up, unfortunatley Beyond The Sun can no longer play but we will have the mint Tamla All Stars stepping instead! Playing powerful covers of classic Motown and Northern Soul records with reinterpretations of songs by the likes of Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield and Jackie Wilson the band deliver a set of guaranteed floor fillers. Put on your dancing shoes! Going to be a good one! They will be on stage at 3pm, live music starts at 12pm through until 5pm Check out the full line up below!
12pm-12.30pm Hard Times
1pm-1.30pm The Dead Seat
2pm-2.30pm Los Capitanes
3pm-3.30pm Tamla All Stars
4pm-5pm The Belta Reivers

Plus musical themed kids crafts from Big Little Gigs 🤩

This will be a grand event being held in Sunderland by our pals at We Make Culture featuring a bunch of great chats with some local faves Grace Stubbings Eliza Lee Helen Claire Walkinshaw Daryl Jenkins and industry professionals from further afield. Check it out!

We are pleased to share that we have programmed some cracking bands to perform at this year's Darlington Community Carnival Hopetown Darlington on Saturday 27th June! 12pm-5pm FREE entry and we have definitely booked the sun to shine (fingers crossed!!) Hard Times, The Dead Seat , Los Capitanes , Beyond The Sun (ex Weekend Sun) and the blimmin brilliant The Belta Reivers to headline! Plus we will have our Big Little Gigs gang there all afternoon doing musical crafts for the little and BIG uns :-) Darlington Community Carnival Enjoy Darlington Darlington Borough Council

FIRST WAVE 🚂 Welcome aboard this year's line-up so far for Last Train Home Festival! Have your tickets ready for Lucia & The Best Boys, Benefits, LEAZES, Labyrinthine Oceans, Risco, Polyvinyl, Callum Pitt, Katie Grace, W***H Viva la riot grrrl, Glad Town Ghost, Anna Karila, The Callows & Many More TBC

Plus a whole day of top craic from comedians Gavin Webster, Silky, The Halls Of Ridiculous, Devin Gray, Maxine Wade, Dawn Bailey, El Purnell, Anna Thomas & Ray Bradshaw, compered by Rob Mulholland, courtesy of Hilarity Bites Comedy Club

Coming to The Forum Music Centre, Darlington Hippodrome & The Hullabaloo on Sat Sept 5th.
Get tickets and get excited at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-train-home-festival-2026-tickets-1988210514169

Thank you so much to everyone who came to Hark! The Sound of Stories: On Sycamore Gap last night.

Huge thanks to Staithe and Kate Fox: Stand-Up Poet for inviting us to bring On Sycamore Gap to Darlington, too, and for being their own support acts, along with Bridget Hamilton. (Congrats to the audience member who won a proof copy of her forthcoming book!) And of course thank you to our funders Community Rail Network Bishop Line Community Rail Partnership and also to Darlington Libraries as ever, for letting us turn the place into a candle-lit venue for the evening!

It was a truly special show, a proper laugh-and-cry cathartic and quite spiritual experience. It was never just a tree.

There are two more performances of On Sycamore Gap taking place this weekend (16 & 17 May) in Newcastle and Hexham. If you missed out last night, we really recommend trying to catch one of these. We'll drop a link in the comments.