Middlesbrough Music Live 2010

[Walker]

Teesside's favourite free music event returns:

TFM MAIN STAGE (Centre Square)

The Hoosiers

Example

Daisy Dares You

Fenech Soler

Tiffany Page

I Am Arrows

Kirsty Almeida

Duke

Millionaires

Goldhawks

Young Rebel Set

TEN FEET TALL STAGE (The Empire)

Erol Alkan (Aftershow Party)

Turin Brakes

John Power

Wolf Gang

Wildcats Present Rum Sodomy and the Lash

Danny & The Champions of the World

Darker My Love

Airship

Babeshadow

Our Secret Sins

EVENING GAZETTE SOUNDS STAGE (Middlesbrough Town Hall)

Professor Green

Freebass

Detroit Social Club

Chapel Club

Frankie & The Heartstrings

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool

Hot Club De Paris

The Crookes

Russell & The Wolves

SUMO ROCK STAGE (Town Hall Courtyard)

The Blackout

Young Guns

My Passion

Sylosis

Millionaires

The Black Spiders

The Flatliners

Futures

The Plight

Lifeless

Hey! Alaska

COSMOS STAGE (Upstairs at The Central)

C.W. Stoneking

Johnny Flynn

Cate le Bon

Sweet Baboo

Nadine Shah

Little Glitches

Woven Project

Cattle & Cane

Leno

HARRY HOUDINI STAGE (Middle Floor of The Empire)

The Chapman Family

Exit Calm

The Neat

The Jessie Road Trip

Gloria Cycles

Retriever

Andy Jones & The Norton Rockets

HOMEGROWN OUTDOOR (Corporation Road)

Be Quiet Shout Loud

Dirty Weekend

Jimmy & The Sounds

Lost State of Dance

Soviet Disco

The Samantha Durnan Band

Sister Rose

Recusant

Red Rabbits

HOMEGROWN CRYPT (Middlesbrough Town Hall Crypt)

Glass Avalanche

We'll All Be Heroes

Exit By Name

Drunk In Hell

About A Plane Crash

British Lichen Society

Black Mountain Poets

Rosa Valle

The Disaster March

THE CENTRAL STAGE

Ginog's County

Ian Race Audio Fayre

Tees Hot Club

Straw Donkey

Temujin

HAIRY LEMON STAGE

Caterina Rea

The Southmartins

The Ska Beats

The White Negroes

The Funktion

Quite a weak line-up IMO, but it is free so I can't complain. There are still a few bands I would like to see though so I'll be going as always, and like every year my attention is going to mainly be on the Sumo Stage. Hot Club de Paris are a must see for anyone who hasn't seen them before, they are spectacular IMO.

Edited May 24, 2010 by WalkerWGZ

[YI]

Was gonna go for the sheer comedy/perving value of Millionaires......and the awesome-ness of Flatliners. But the line-up is a bit 'meh' as a whole, one of my mates has already dropped out and I think I have other plans that weekend anyway, so might bail. :/

Anyone going I would suggest giving "Hey! Alaska" a look. They're probably the strangest looking group of motherfuckers you'll ever see, but they're surprisingly rather good...but would be miles better if they got rid of the screamer and just stuck with the Dallas Green ripoff singer, who's got a cracking voice.

Edited May 24, 2010 by YI

[Darloboy]

I'll be there as always but not overwhelmed by that lineup. Having said that, I haven't heard of most of the bands (which is half the problem I guess?), any standout acts on that list that are worth checking out?

[Colly]

Possibly the worst Music Live ever based on a combination of the Main Stage lineup, and the fact that the new setup means you can't get into any other venue after 7 o'clock, and the additional fact that you can't carry a drink from the bar to the stage in Boro town hall. My plan is Young Rebel Set early doors, try to get into the (dry) town hall for HCDP and FATHS, then probably sod off early with no chance of seeing anyone else barring the inexplicably headlining Hoosiers.

I'm feeling old, but I'm missing the years of watching Cooper Temple Clause at the back of the crown court with a crate of lager, or the year where Bloc Party et al played the second stage and you could still get in. Roll on Stockton Riverside Fest and The Human League!