Leazes Park Newcastle Upon Tyne reviews by real event-goers

Review of UB40 ft Ali Campbell In The Park | Leazes Park, Newcastle

Paid for VIP for a wedding present for my wife so we got VIP tickets. There was 12 toilets for 200_300 people which was disgusting condition no m/f everyone mixed in. We were 30-40 away to the side of stage so everyone who didn't get VIP tickets stood in front of us, drugs were every where. By 9.20 my wife was just about stoned by the green that was been used everywhere.. absolutely nothing VIP about the show and how we were treat, extremely disappointed......

Review of Noughty 90's Festival Newcastle 2024

VIP waste of money. Toilets discards ... £10 can of AU

Review of Summer Lovin Live presents MARTI PELLOW (Voice of Wet Wet Wet)

It was a great night, staff were amazing
Music from the artists were fabulous.
Disappointed with no disabled toilet area close to the stage,
Very difficult to access being so far away.

Review of Summer Lovin Live presents IBIZA ORCHESTRA | Newcastle

Review of UB40 ft Ali Campbell In The Park | Leazes Park, Newcastle

There wasn't enough toilets for the ammount of people, the bars had issues with contactless causing big queues.

Review of Summer Lovin Live presents MARTI PELLOW (Voice of Wet Wet Wet)

Marti Pellow was great as usual. I was disappointed with the venue it was really poorly sign posted and there were no staff to show you where to go. We bought VIP tickets. The VIP area was off to the side of the stage so you had to go into the general entry area to get a decent view. The supposedly posh toilets were not working so the women were told to go in the men's loo with men using the urinals. If I went to this event in future I would stick to general entry tickets

Review of Summer Lovin Live presents MARTI PELLOW (Voice of Wet Wet Wet)

Marti pellow was amazing but the charge for VIP absolutely disgusting we were supposed to 1st in that's a no as they let the other ticket holders in at the same time as VIP so what we really paid VIP for was toilets as that's all we got never again absolute rip off

Review of Summer Lovin Live presents MARTI PELLOW (Voice of Wet Wet Wet)

Bar prices expensive. No shelter in the rain however was still good overall

Review of Summer Lovin Live presents MARTI PELLOW (Voice of Wet Wet Wet)

The onstage performances were shocking 15 mins for the first act 30 mins for second act and 1 hour for headline act we didn't stay for the last act, strange atmosphere and mixture of people.

Marti Pellow fans vs Rave fans very strange everyone in the same place

Review of UB40 ft Ali Campbell In The Park | Leazes Park, Newcastle

We had to walk quite along way to get into the venue, this was not good as both myself and husband have difficulties .we we're not allowed to take seats in yet there were people who had them there ,and hardly any benches to sit on ,which was ridiculous.,not much thought going into organising for disabled.
The toilet were absolutely disgusting ,probably because there wernt enough of them .The music was very good.

Review of Summer Lovin Live presents IBIZA ORCHESTRA | Newcastle

I have attended this venue before for various 90s events and the atmosphere was good. However, on this particular occasion it was very poor.

The pricing was expensive £8 or so for a pineapple shell with juice in it
(no alcohol).

It was supposed to be a Ibiza event and yet until the acts started the DJ played 60s and 70s cheesy music?

Then we had various singers on stage like Omar, Marti Pellow ect doing various songs which had nothing to do with 90s Ibiza.

Eventually when the Orchestra was due to start they had to rush around the stage setting it up as it was not even set up and it was like they had just arrived or arrived late.

I the end I don't think the Ibiza Live Orchestra event went on for an hour in total. It was very very poor indeed. Tickets about £45 and we're not worth it because from being in the venue from 5pm until it finished. You were lucky if you got an hour in total of the Ibiza Live Orchestra type music. The rest of the event was cheese, pop and old 60s and 70s music which completely went against what was being advertised.

If I wanted that type of music I would have went to join the OAP's at Flares in town instead.

Very poor all around on this occasion and many others were complaining unfortunately.

Review of UB40 ft Ali Campbell In The Park | Leazes Park, Newcastle

Review of UB40 ft Ali Campbell In The Park | Leazes Park, Newcastle

UB40 we amazing as always ....the venue was a chaotic mess the drinks were a total rip off £26 for 4 cans of warm flat Budweiser this could of been purchased in a shop for £5 .and the toilets were absolutely disgusting no paper no soap not checked not surprised people were doing their business in the field it was cleaner .The security staff were rude stopping us getting out then shouting at us tokeep moving 🤷‍♀️ I will never go to a Skiddle event again

Review of Summer Lovin Live presents MARTI PELLOW (Voice of Wet Wet Wet)

Great show, fantastic atmosphere. Well organised and felt very safe.
Drinks were overpriced.

Review of UB40 ft Ali Campbell In The Park | Leazes Park, Newcastle

Review of UB40 ft Ali Campbell In The Park | Leazes Park, Newcastle

The only good thing about this was the music. Everything else was an absolute joke. We paid extra for VIP access to have 'posh loos' and exclusive bar or whatever it was labelled as. The drinks were extortionate, £6.50 for a can of Budweiser, which were warm, not kept in a fridge at all and the toilets were inhumane. Didn't flush, no running water, so I'm sure you can imagine the state of them after a couple of hours of everyone using them, and unable to flush, it was absolutely disgusting and frankly ruined the whole experience, and also everyone else we spoke to. It got to the point people were using the space down the side of the portacabins to do their business. UB40 were great, which kind of pulled the night back around, but then when we were leaving, for some reason the security were stopping people leaving leading to a lot of angry people who had experienced all of the above for the rest of the evening, it just didn't make sense. Have these people not heard of hillsbrough? My wife had her appendix removed less than 2 weeks before so was obviously still tender, and she was worried during the pushing and shoving of everyone trying to get out that she was going to get injured. Not the kind of feeling you want after you've paid over £100 for a ticket.

Review of Summer Lovin Live presents MARTI PELLOW (Voice of Wet Wet Wet)

Review of UB40 ft Ali Campbell In The Park | Leazes Park, Newcastle

Shocking, worse event I’ve been too in many years. Prices were a disgrace, set up terrible we were in VIP total waste of money. Security were appalling walking around with padded gloves, no drug detection dogs people off their faces and far too many drunk people, the event was spoilt atmosphere was terrible…😡😡

Review of UB40 ft Ali Campbell In The Park | Leazes Park, Newcastle

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