Summer manifested itself during the Mouth of the Tyne Festival during the weekend, culminating in Sunday’s packed priory stage, featuring Beth Jeans Houghton, The Lighting Seeds and the highlight, Easy Star All-Stars.
The three-day event was free (apart from James Morrison), mixing different disciplines from children’s performers, market areas, cultural festivals and grander pop acts along the banks of Tynemouth and South Shields.
The Priory Stage was the most impressive part of weekend, not only for its surroundings – a stage in a ruined castle – but for the calibre and range of performers.
As part of the ¡VAMOS! festival, Violadores del Verso offered a worldly take, followed by Beth Jeans Houghton who played a well received set, showing why she’s tipped to become a mainstay in UK music.
For the sheer energy and crowd adoration, Easy Star All-Stars stuck to reggae Beatles covers, throwing in a Pink Floyd number and other crowd pleasers with great vocals and the happiest bass player in any band.
Headliners, The Lightening Seeds, meanwhile, were a bit of a disappointment, and didn’t seem to really want to be there. Perhaps it was down to some initial sound problems or maybe they wanted to dash off to watch the World Cup final having had their set delayed by over an hour. Whatever the reason, the Mouth of the Tyne Festival proved that sometimes councils do get it right.
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