Evolution festival

Newcastle/GatesheadEvolution is one of the more curious new festivals. Set over two days in Newcastle and Gateshead - the Millennium Bridge and a stretch of the Tyne between them - the lineup seems to have been chosen by pinning a tail on a donkey. Saturday's headline of the daft Wombats over the Human League must be the oddest ordering since Jimi Hendrix supported Engelbert Humperdinck. However, no age restrictions meant that many here probably were experiencing live music for the first time, a...

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