Last Train Home Festival

23/05/2026

FIRST WAVE 🚂 Welcome aboard this year's line-up for Last Train Home Festival! Have your tickets ready for Lucia & The Best Boys, Benefits, LEAZES, Labyrinthine Oceans, Risco, Polyvinyl, Callum Pitt, Katie Grace, W***H Viva la riot grrrl, Glad Town Ghost, Anna Karila, The Callows & Many More TBC

Plus a whole day of top craic from comedians Gavin Webster, Silky, The Halls Of Ridiculous, Devin Gray, Maxine Wade, Dawn Bailey, El Purnell, Anna Thomas & Ray Bradshaw, compered by Rob Mulholland, courtesy of Hilarity Bites Comedy Club

Coming to The Forum Music Centre, Darlington Hippodrome & The Hullabaloo on Sat Sept 5th.
Get tickets and get excited at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-train-home-festival-2026-tickets-1988210514169

25/04/2026

LAST TRAIN HOME FESTIVAL 2026 🚂 Back on track for another year of bringing the best picks in independent music & comedy to town; an all-dayer across three venues, all on one ticket

Returning on Saturday Sept 5th to The Forum Music Centre, Darlington Hippodrome & The Hullabaloo, watch this space for artist announcements, and get your tickets in early: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-train-home-festival-2026-tickets-1988210514169

15/03/2026

Great to see that MARKETPLACEband are doing so well and representing the NE over in Texas at the legendary SXSW Festival 🤩🥰

17/02/2026

Loving the Coach Party single and ace to hear it's on the 6Music B-List! 🤩 They played a storming headline set at our fest back in 2024 🥰

24/12/2025

Loving this Christmas vid from the awesome Du Blonde who headlined our stage at this years Last Train Home Fest! Plus a nice appearance from Cortney Dixon too! Created with the help of our very own Rob Irish 🤩 We will be back with more music festival goodness in 2026! So stick the 5.09.26 in yer diaries now and have a good one! 🎄

‘It’s Christmas and I’m Crying’ - The Christmas single from Du BlondeDirected and Edited by Beth Jeans HoughtonProduced by Beth Jeans Houghton & Christine Je...

11/10/2025

If you loved Last Train Home Fest get yerself to Boro today for another mint Tees Valley music fest, the mighty Twisterella Festival featuring some awesome bands 🤩

It’s 11 years since we launched Twisterella. This year’s festival takes place on the 11th October. And there’s only 111 tickets remaining!

Make sure you buy yours ASAP - more than anything so that Andy doesn’t need to keep standing on one leg.

Let’s twist again. This Saturday. The mighty Boro.

10/10/2025

Great to see North Riding - Band played on BBC Radio 2 the band played an awesome set earlier this year for us at our launch event Hopetown Darlington 🥰

26/09/2025

Some top live music happening just down the road in that there Stockton this weekend! Take a look, head out and keep on supporting live music and live music venues 🤩🥰

23/09/2025

So we are predictably late (sorry!) with this but an overdue massive thank you to everyone who made this years festival happen! The brilliant bands, comedians, bar staff, sound engineers, stage managers and volunteers! You are all legends!

Here is a small selection of some of the mint photos that have been coming in to Tracks HQ. From our launch event at Hopetown Darlington to the On Point On Tour Industry Session with Tees Music Alliance , the festival itself The Forum Music Centre Darlington Hippodrome and The Hullabaloo to our new (slightly soggy) Sunday Session in the market square (Thanks to Darlington Borough Council Events Team) we couldn't have done it without all your support!

Thanks also to our funders and supporters Arts Council England Bishop Line Community Rail Partnership Community Rail Network Northern CrossCountry trains Creative Darlington S&dr200 BBC Music Introducing

Thanks to Hilarity Bites Comedy Club for another fantastic comedy stage, to NARC. Magazine for programming a mint stage and to Alrose Productions Ltd for tec support across the weekend.

And finally to you lovely lot! Thank you for coming out and supporting live music and comedy! Grassroots musicians and venues need all our love and support now more than ever! See you soon for more music fun, head over to our main page Tracks to find out about some of the other musical goodness we bring to Darlington 🥰🤩🚂 Enjoy Darlington Love Darlington

Photographers: Gareth Williams, Vicky Wai, Sam Edge

23/09/2025

Three incredible Tees Valley artists are set to take their music careers to the next level after being awarded the very first PPL Momentum Accelerator Tees Valley grants.