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Tracks announces the final line up for their music and comedy extravaganza, Last Train Home, on 5th September, with LTH Express kicking things off on 3rd September for an intimate warm‑up at Hopetown
Tracks have dropped the full line‑up for this year’s Last Train Home Festival, and it’s a whopper. Pulling into Darlington on Saturday 5th September, the all‑dayer sprawls across six stages at The Forum, The Hullabaloo and even the Hippodrome’s gorgeous auditorium, packing in over 40 acts from across the North East and beyond. The bill is stacked: Lucia & The Best Boys, Benefits, Chartreuse, Bitchfinder General, Saint Clair, SwanNek, Lizzie Esau, LEAZES, Labyrinthine Oceans, Risco, Polyvinyl, Callum Pitt, Katie Grace, WENCH, Glad Town Ghost, Anna Karila, The Callows, Central Arcade, Eve Simpson, Claudia, The Larches, Rosie Larada, Tariro, Robyn Banks, Nano Kino, Northern Hospitality, Tom Blackwell, plus a cypher set featuring NE‑O, Eyeconic, SPNI, Dan Swift and DJ Pirata. Comedy comes courtesy of Hilarity Bites, with Gavin Webster, Silky, The Halls of Ridiculous, Devin Gray, Maxine Wade, Dawn Bailey, El Purnell, Anna Thomas and Ray Bradshaw, compered by Rob Mulholland
Before all that, on Thursday 3rd September, the festival warms up with LTH Express — an intimate launch show at Hopetown’s train‑museum‑turned‑gig‑café, featuring George Boomsma, Before Close and The Mist Calls. Seats are limited, so grab a ticket for this and the festival from the Tracks website.
