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LAST TRAIN HOME FESTIVAL 2022
Darlington’s multi-venue festival Last Train Home returns for the fifth time on Saturday 3rd September. The music and comedy festival, supported by Arts Council England, Creative Darlington and Darlington Borough Council, takes place in venues located near to Darlington’s main railway station and is programmed to finish in time for audiences to catch the last train home. This year, the festival boasts five stages over three venues: The Forum Music Centre will host the main stage and Hilarity Bites Comedy stage; The Hullabaloo will host the NARC magazine stage and the Noisy Daughters stage; and returning to Last Train Home this year is
the iconic St John’s Church stage, where various mellow acoustic and lo-fi folk artists will be performing. Sarah Wilson of Darlington-based promoters Tracks noted: “We are so excited to be bringing Last Train Home back to Darlington for the fifth year. It’s been a bit of a wild ride with COVID and all of the challenges of setting up, curating and building a new festival from scratch. This year features some amazing national and regional artists, with some great support from Darlington artists such as Caitlin Morrow, Luke Royalty and Common Courtesy too. We really hope to be able to continue to keep building the festival over the next five years!” Returning to Last
Train Home as headliners of the main stage are psychedelic punk rockers, The Lovely Eggs. Rob Irish from Tracks added: “The Lovely Eggs performed at the first ever Last Train Home playing upstairs at the now boarded-up and awaiting-demolition Hogan's pub. It’s been great to see how much the band has grown over the last five years with their recent album ‘I Am Moron’ reaching number 1 in the UK Independent Album Charts and getting loads of amazing press reviews and radio play. It’s exciting to bring them back to Darlington and have them headline at The Forum stage.” Headlining the Noisy Daughters stage in the main Hullabaloo room is Liz Lawrence.
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