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Aelius Alternative: First Wave of Artists Announced

Aelius Alternative makes its third return to Newcastle city centre on Saturday the 18th of April 2026 and we have just announced our first wave of artists that will be performing the festival!

An overwhelmingly talented pool of musicians from Tyneside, Teesside, and further afield is joining us for a day filled with incredible live music across 4 stages! Hannah Robinson, Be Quiet. Shout Loud!, Hels Pattison and Risco will be performing and Inglenook will make their return after an overwhelmingly well-received set at Mosaic Tap earlier this year.

We’ll be working with local promoters Marisam and TYNE + QUEER, Sunderland’s NAME Academy, Gateshead’s Station East, Twice Brewed, Off Axis, and Scottish management agency Night Owl on bringing artists from all over the place to Newcastle to showcase their talents.

Tickets for the festival are available here.

Aelius Alternative Festival line-up announcement

Together with a team of incredible music industry professionals I am organising the second edition of Newcastle’s music, comedy, and spoken word festival Aelius Alternative on Saturday the 5th of April and we have just announced our full line-up!

Fast rising locals CROWLEY, WOLFRED, and TV DEATH will be headlining across 4 venues and 5 stages; The Globe Up, The Globe Down, Head of Steam, The Telegraph and ZEROX’ Shooting Gallery are all playing their part in highlighting a selection of incredible musical talents. Artists on the line-up include Nadedja, spoken word artists Sam Way and Tahmina Ali, Rushbonds, and White Collar Rebel.

We will once again be collaborating with international live music promoters Sofar Sounds on a secret stage, as well as local comic Adrian Hanlon who’ll be curating and hosting the comedy stage. Sunderland’s NAME Academy will be sending two acts to Newcastle, French music platform Groover will be taking their pick of international acts to perform, Off Axis are taking care of the Scottish delegation to join us in the festivities, and The Pentatonic will be sending Uno Mas to Newcastle.

This year, we are working with national organisation Tonic Music for Mental Health on highlighting the importance of mental health services within the music industry. Aelius Alternative partners include Groover, Love Music Hate Racism North East, Microbus Gateshead, NAME Sunderland, Night Owl Music Promotions, Off Axis Scotland, The Pentatonic and W Artists.

Tickets for the festival are available here.

Aelius Alternative Music Festival

On Saturday the 6th of April multi-venue all-day music festival Aelius Alternative will make its debut across five stage in Newcastle city centre!

A limited batch of early bird tickets have now been released and are available from sofarsounds.com, half of these have sold out already. Once the early bird tickets have sold out, regular all-day tickets will be sold at £17. There will also be a limited batch of all-day + afterparty tickets available at £20, these allow entry to the entire festival, as well as the official Aelius Alternative afterparty at The Globe!

Aelius Alternative aims to highlight and support grassroots artists, venues, and businesses and does so by offering them a stage and a platform. Our line-up has now been announced and can be found here!