Overview
- The three‑day festival at Herrington Country Park wrapped up after a weekend of main stage shows and DJ sets that closed with Olivia Dean as Sunday’s headliner.
- Organisers ran the event with planned security, entry rules and local travel measures, and coverage reported no major incidents during the festival.
- Temperatures climbed to near 30°C across the weekend, shaping the crowd experience and prompting extensive sun‑soaked photo coverage and fashion roundups.
- High‑profile acts across the weekend included Fatboy Slim, Ellie Goulding, Louis Tomlinson, Zara Larsson, Niall Horan and a range of BBC Introducing and rising artists.
- Local officials said the event drew around 100,000 visitors, supported fringe community programming, and delivered an estimated £3.5m economic boost for the city.