Love saved the day

Love saved the day last weekend!

Attendances were approx 10,000 Friday, 21,000 Saturday and 19,000 Sunday

It was great to see everyone enjoying themselves at Love Saves the Day Festival on the Downs last weekend.

The festival consisted of one main stage that gathered large crowds to listen to the upbeat music on Saturday, we also had the benefits of having another 3 smaller stages, that were equally as good the main stage, with the DJ’s and UK artists performing their music sets to some awesome light shows and flames spewing from the stage. It was a pleasure to see that the festival and team had considered a number of extra facilities that would be needed to cater for the mass gathering of over 50,000 festival-goers over the 3 day weekend, by having additional toilets and bins located on Durham Downs. All the staff were friendly and very helpful throughout the weekend. We were also delighted with the number of local stalls and businesses there was that people were supporting by buying or using their services in the festival. Safety was at the heart of the festival along with lateral flow testing being required twenty-four hours before arriving. Overall it was a spectacular event for everyone, the sunshine and great music was a joy to attend, when we spoke to some of the people in the festival they said: They came as far away as Leeds to enjoy this amazing concert and did not want to miss out on some of the normality that we are getting back in to this year.

Team Love’s Tom Paine has released the following statement about the weekend:

Wow. We've had such an amazing and rejuvenating weekend on the Downs with the IDLES and Love Saves The Day Festival. We had amazing crowds of smiling happy people, beautiful weather and some jaw-dropping performances from musicians and bands, the pictures and videos from the weekend speak for themselves. We've certainly all waited a while to be able to put on our shows again and it's been such a great feeling to do so again for all of us, our staff and crew, freelancers, musicians, DJs, security, bar teams and the 1000s of other people who work on the show. We are already making plans for 2022 which will see us return to the usual date of May/June. We will be looking to relaunch the Downs Concerts for September 2022 whilst Love Saves moves to a new home. More information to follow.