United in Music Festival was another huge success this last weekend. Two days of top class music between Station East and Microbus Gateshead.

The Hippy Train IPA from Twice Brewed Brewing was a big hit too. We knew it’d be good.

It was great to have food from Vegetali too.

Our only regret is not having time to catch enough of the music in Station East.

This was the third United in Music festival. While we enjoyed it very much, it’s pretty unlikely that we’ll do anything like this again.

We’re also thinking about scaling live music back a little next year. After all, we’re too small to think of ourselves as a music venue. We’re a bar that sometimes has live music.

We know that we’re not a cheap bar. But we like to think we’re good value for money.

It’s pretty much three years since we opened our little bar.

To mark the occasion, we’ve a couple of birthday beers.

Working with our mates at Station East, we’ve our third little music festival.

With two great events last year, the second year of United in Music festival is set to reach the same high standards in live music.

A weekend of music across two bars.

We’ve some great live music to look forward to. Here’re three we want to catch ourselves:

Mississippi MacDonald 05/04/25 – multi-award winning blues. As good as it gets.

BARN 54 31/05/25 – German duo on their Shades tour. Insanely good, fun originals.

The McMillan’s Camp Boys 14/06/25 – original folk/bluegrass/country, all the way from Nova Scotia.

The Spring 2025 Canny Bevvy edition is in a bar near you now. They tend to go quickly, but the online version’s here.

Following the Crack’s article (see our last post), the Chronicle has written about this little part of Gateshead.