August 2025

Tom A. Smith played to a sold out crowd at this home show at Sunderland’s Fire Station on Friday night and was joined onstage by a true local musical legend, Dave Stewart from Eurythmics for ‘Toronto’. The set closed with new single ‘Fashion’ receiving...

Still only twenty-one, Sunderland’s Tom A. Smith has already dazzled at Glastonbury (twice), BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend, BST Hyde Park (invited by Elton John), and opened Leeds Festival. He’s toured or shared stages with Catfish & The Bottlemen, The Lathums, The...

Breakout Newcastle band Leazes have been crowned champions of this year’s Road to Hardwick competition – earning themselves a prime-time main stage slot at Hardwick Festival 2025, where they’ll join the likes of Pet Shop Boys (Dreamworld – The Greatest Hits Live), Scissor Sisters, and Olly Murs this August....