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Orange Evolution Festival
Location(s)	Newcastle/Gateshead, England
Years active	2005 - present
Date(s)	May Bank Holiday
Genre	Rock, Alternative rock, Indie rock
Website	www.evolutionfestival.co.uk

The Evolution Festival is a music festival held annually in venues across Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead, England since 2005. Its centre-piece is a two-stage event held on Spring Bank Holiday Monday at two sites beside the River Tyne, though the festival also incoporates a series of other performances at venues around Newcastle and Gateshead in the preceding week. It has previously been known as Orange Evolution and Freevolution.

History

The first festival, in 2005, consisted of a series of live music performances throughout Newcastle and Gateshead in the month of May. It was sponsored by the UK mobile phone network Orange and culminated on Bank Holiday Monday with a free three-stage event around the Spillers Wharf area of the Newcastle Quayside and the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. Over the next two years the number of ancillary events decreased with more focus on the culminating event. In 2008, the festival ended its sponsorship with Orange and rebranded itself as 'Evolution Festival', introducing a charge (of £3.00) for the Bank Holiday Monday festival for the first time. Some of this charge will be passed on to Wateraid, its official charity. In 2009, acts such as The Wombats and Dizzee Rascal headline the event with the festival now being a weekender festival. The festival is hosted on Sunday and Monday and tickets are priced at £15 per weekend ticket.

Line Up

Orange Evolution 05

Baltic Square: The Colour, Carbon Silicon, Fightstar, Hard-Fi, Vatican DC, Kubichek, The Futureheads, Boy Kill Boy, The Others.

Spiller's Wharf: The Ordinary Boys, Mylo, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, The Rakes, El Presidente, Dizzee Rascal, Super Furry Animals.

Quayside East: Vic Goddard, Charles Walker, Candi Staton, Misty in Roots, Mark Eitzel American Music Club, 50 Foot Wave, Martin Stephenson & The Daintees.

Orange Evolution 06

Baltic Square: The Go! Team, Richard Hawley, Jim Noir, Field Music, Liam Frost, The Sunshine Underground, Lorraine, The Bulletproof Stonelove Soundsystem.

Spiller's Wharf: Hard-Fi, The On Offs, Graham Coxon, Freestylers, The Proclaimers, Boy Kill Boy, Sway, Orson (band).

Quayside East: Richie Havens, Hayseed Dixie, Legendary Shack Shakers, The Handsome Family, Holly Gollightly, Morfo, The Eighteenth Day Of May.

Orange Evolution 07

Baltic Square: Maximo Park, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joe Jackson, Kano, Hot Club de Paris, The Motorettes, Seven Heroes.

Spiller's Wharf: Nite Versions, Calvin Harris, Chromeo, Simian Mobile Disco, Datarock, Shy Child, Bonde do Role, To My Boy.

Evolution Festival 08

Baltic Square: CSS (band), New Young Pony Club, Crystal Castles, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Hercules and Love Affair, Whomadewho, The Ghost Frequency, Kinevil.

Spiller's Wharf: The Streets, Kate Nash, Reverend and the Makers, Duffy, Glasvegas, Lightspeed Champion, The Whip, This Ain't Vegas.

Evolution Festival 09

Baltic Square

• Sunday: Boys Noize, Chase and Status, Kissy Sell Out, The Count and Siden, Krafty Kuts and MC Dynamite, Rusko, Brodinski, Japanese Popstars, Yuksek, James Yuill, Doorly, People Get Real, TC Monckton, Oli P.

• Monday: Mystery Jets, Friendly Fires, Ladyhawke, Esser, Ebony Bones, Dead Kids, Fan Death, Viva City.

Spiller's Wharf:

• Sunday: The Wombats, The Human League, White Lies, Imelda May, Twisted Wheel, The Puppini Sisters, Detroit Social Club, The Big Pink, The Chapman Family.

• Monday: Dizzee Rascal, The View, The Maccabees, Little Boots, Nouvelle Vague, VV Brown, Kid British, Little Comets, Marina And the Diamonds.

External links

• Official website
• 2009 Line-Up announced