Lymelight Festival

06/02/2025

📢 Lymelight Fest is BACK for 2025!

Get ready for another weekend of incredible FREE live music as Lymelight Festival brings the best of the local music scene back to 'Castle over the May Bank Holiday – Friday 23rd, Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th May 2025!

✨ Emerging local artists, bands & performers showcasing their talent
🎸 2 outdoor stages packed with live performances
🍺 Town centre venues hosting even more music
🛍 Market featuring unique local traders
💿 Record Fair for the vinyl crate diggers
🍔 Street food & drinks

Follow for the latest news and lineup announcements – coming soon! 👀

18/06/2024

It’s with a heavy heart that we share the news of the passing of our friend and talented local photographer, Edward Handley.

Edward was a constant presence at Lymelight; front of stage, camera in hand, capturing the acts as well as the energy of the crowd.

We invite you to join us in honouring Edward by sharing some of his work from this year’s event.

He brought the festival to life through his photography and serves as a reminder that Lymelight is much more than music, it’s about the community that comes together to celebrate and create memories.

Edward was an integral part of that community, and his absence will be deeply felt 💚

28/05/2024

Massive thanks for this Lymelight review from Bethan Shufflebotham from The Leopheard who was also our superstar snapper for the weekend! 🙌 absolute legend on the local music scene!

From glorious sunshine to thunder and lightning, orchestral rock bands to hyperpop soloists, pints and cocktails to kimchi fries and hotdogs, acoustic songwriters to indie quartets - Lymelight Festival 2024 had it all.

28/05/2024

THANK YOU NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME! 🙌🙌

That.was.absolutely.epic! You danced in the sun, the rain and the thunder and we all a ruddy good time doing it! ☀️ 🍻

We always wanna go bigger and better year on year to create a free event that showcases the best of local music - and we think we did that this year?! More stages, more music, more people! 🙏

The biggest thank you to the Castle businesses who fund Lymelight Festival as part of 😘, alongside our headline sponsors . Thanks to , (king of lineups!), our presenters Emily Rose Galvin and LFE, as well all of our amazing venues who hosted venue takeovers and pop ups over the weekend.

This feels like the Oscars!

We have SO many amazing artists doing incredible bits and we love that we can bring all that together, give em a stage and shine a (Lyme)light on on what the Staffs music scene has to offer on local and national scale.

Lastly, YOU! If you were in-front of a stage or in a bar soaking up the Lymelight feels, thanks to you! You make all the hard work worth it 🫶

See ya next year?!

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27/05/2024

W O W! Judging by all the happy faces in the crowd after the final performance, we’re guessing you lot had a good weekend?

We know we did 🫶

26/05/2024

Were you papped? 📸

The popular weekend event features plenty of live music

26/05/2024

Day 1 was a stunner. Day 2 - let’s go! 🙌🙌

Here are all the deets you need! We’ve got bands, we’ve got booze and we’ve got food. Come down and see us!

25/05/2024

Love this! Thank you for coming down!

25/05/2024

We love this 🫶

25/05/2024

Here we go… the pints are frosty and the sun is (kinda) out🍻☀️

Get down to Castle! We’re here all day, cya in the crowd!

24/05/2024

🙌👇🙌👇🙌

The popular free event in Newcastle town centre takes place this weekend

24/05/2024

Hello? Lymelight speaking… 📞 The wait is finally over, we’re kicking off tomorrow at 12pm on the Market Stage!
 
If you really can’t wait, you can get some pre-grooving in at our venue takeovers tonight from 7.30pm 🙌

23/05/2024

👀 Looking for something to do this bank holiday weekend?

Check out Lymelight Festival in Newcaste-Under-Lyme!

Hop on board any of our Newcastle bound services for music, drinks and fun! 🍻🎵

📲 Download the First Bus app to plan your journey, buy your ticket, track your bus >>

https://www.firstbus.co.uk/potteries/plan-journey/tech-bus-smarter-travel

22/05/2024

Lymelight, camera, action! 🎥 We’re looking forward to welcoming the team from White Walrus Media this weekend who’ll kindly be capturing the event for us 🙌

We’ll also be welcoming down photography students from Newcastle College who’ll be snapping away as part of their work experience 📸

21/05/2024

Fancy a Magic Mary Friday at The Clubhouse Stoke? ✨

We have a massive bank holiday weekend planned for you, with 3 great events to come see us and some other amazing bands at 🤘🏻

Friday 24th May 8pm - Lymelight Festival at The Clubhouse Stoke

Saturday 25th May 8pm - Percy's Cafe Bar with Athena’s Revenge and KUFF DAM

Sunday 26th May 6pm - Dyers Arms Rock Revival Festival