Middlesbrough Festival 2003

The main event takes place on Bank Holiday Monday with eight stages dotted around the town centre featuring everything from pop, ska, swing, folk, jazz and more.

In the Central Gardens, the 96.6 stage will be host pop, rock and ska music from noon until about 10pm.Reef will be headlining.
The Play stage at the Empire on Coronation Rd will feature bands playing from 12.30pm with the last band, Puressence, appearing at 8.25pm.
The Evening Gazette stage at the Town Hall Crypt features names such as Easyworld and Biffy Clyro performing from noon to around 10.30pm.
The Regeneration Stage at the Middlesborough Centre hosts rock legends, swing and fiddle on from 3pm until 6.30pm with steel bands and more in the morning.
The Studio 64 stage will be presenting Teeside bands.
The Captain Cook Discovery stage brings a performance voyage of discovery from Stockton Tees college.
At the Dickens Inn from 6pm-2am there'll be punk sessions, free before 9pm.
There's also a Radio Cleveland stage in the Cleveland Centre, lots of fringe events running throughout the week, 17th May to 26th May, including an African Gorree Festival on Saturday 24th May, also at the Dickens Inn; music films at the cinema and an aftershow party.

Please don't bring glass bottles into the festival site area.

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