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The Meridian Showground opened up the skies and the space, and with it came a bigger stage, a broader bill, and a growing crowd. The second chapter was here and 2025 felt like the moment the festival truly arrived full of the sounds, the people, and the energy that this corner of the coast deserves.
Tara Lily and Steven Bamidele brought the kind of depth that stays with you. Tara Lily, moved between jazz, electronica and trip-hop with a rare fluency from her debut album 'Speak In The Dark' a record of secrets, desires and roots rediscovered, with her Radio 1 Track of the Week 'Double Time' raising the roof, off the back of a tour with RAYE, she brought something incredible to the festival. Steven Bamidele, brought his psychedelic forward-thinking soul to the Showground, and as a London-based Nigerian-born songwriter whose music draws on everything from Marvin Gaye to Radiohead, and sounds of something completely unique.
The dancing belonged to Afrodesia and Sam Redmore & the Tropical Soundclash. Leeds-based Afro-Jazz fusion band Afrodesia channelled the raw energy of the motherland, full of Afrobeat, Highlife, Juju and beyond, into something fast, fierce and impossible to stand still to. Sam Redmore and his nine-piece brought a different kind of global fire, the producer and artist whose debut album earned Jazz FM's Album of the Week, lighting up the Showground with electronic and organic sounds made firmly with the dancefloor in mind.
Then there was the homegrown heart of the bill, a new tradition. Mikoudi, the future soul and jazz fusion six-piece, made their hometown debut led by Grimsby's own India Button, returning to the place it all started for her, to a crowd that felt every second of it. And Spencer Booth, making his name right here in Cleethorpes and Grimsby, opened the festival with the kind of vocal talent and keys ability that had the crowd immediately wondering how they hadn't heard of him sooner.
2023
2023
Every great thing starts somewhere. For Everybody Loves the Sunshine, it started here with a first edition to bring something new to this corner of the country. The feeling and the timing was so right in 2023 as live music was finding its way back, audiences remembering what it felt like to stand in a field with strangers and feel something together. We kept it intimate, kept it real, and set out the ambition that would carry us forward. What a start!
With audiences from across the region, the perfect line up of incredible UK artists took the stage, and really cemented the festival as a new calendar main-stay for the following years.
Two acts, one feeling. MELONYX, soul sisters Georgia Copeland and Nadia Latoya, brought their harmonic force fresh from Tru Thoughts, Best Newcomer honours at the BlacOut Soul Awards, and stages at We Out Here and Kendal Calling. Beside them, Coventry's Danniella Dee and her quartet performed the sultry, self-produced sounds of her 'Reflections' EP, shimmering vocals, slinky rhythm, and a genre-defying rootedness in the city that gave the world 2-Tone. Between them, they owned the soul of the afternoon.
The deeper end of the bill, and all the better for it. Sheffield's Jackie Moonbather arrived with his album 'Escape From Planet Earth' - a genre-defying journey through time and space, warm and curious and completely his own thing. Manchester's Werkha brought jazz-inflected, foot-stomping beats rooted as much in the Cumbrian fells as the dancefloor. Music for feeling connected and both of them did exactly that.
Then ones that got the crowd moving and kept them there. Pearl's Cab Ride, born from a chance encounter in a taxi queue in the early 90s, brought the funk-fuelled energy they've been building across UK stages for years. And local heroes Monobooth held it down for neighbouring Grimsby, delivering jazz, neo-soul and full-on funk improvisation with the ease of a band that genuinely loves every second.
As the first chapter closed and the sun-set on the first ever Everybody Loves the Sunshine, we were brought together again after a tough few years, and we've been coming back ever since - and inviting more crowds to join us!
Every great thing starts somewhere. For Everybody Loves the Sunshine, it started here with a first edition to bring something new to this corner of the country. The feeling and the timing was so right in 2023 as live music was finding its way back, audiences remembering what it felt like to stand in a field with strangers and feel something together. We kept it intimate, kept it real, and set out the ambition that would carry us forward. What a start!
With audiences from across the region, the perfect line up of incredible UK artists took the stage, and really cemented the festival as a new calendar main-stay for the following years.
Two acts, one feeling. MELONYX, soul sisters Georgia Copeland and Nadia Latoya, brought their harmonic force fresh from Tru Thoughts, Best Newcomer honours at the BlacOut Soul Awards, and stages at We Out Here and Kendal Calling. Beside them, Coventry's Danniella Dee and her quartet performed the sultry, self-produced sounds of her 'Reflections' EP, shimmering vocals, slinky rhythm, and a genre-defying rootedness in the city that gave the world 2-Tone. Between them, they owned the soul of the afternoon.
The deeper end of the bill, and all the better for it. Sheffield's Jackie Moonbather arrived with his album 'Escape From Planet Earth' - a genre-defying journey through time and space, warm and curious and completely his own thing. Manchester's Werkha brought jazz-inflected, foot-stomping beats rooted as much in the Cumbrian fells as the dancefloor. Music for feeling connected and both of them did exactly that.
Then ones that got the crowd moving and kept them there. Pearl's Cab Ride, born from a chance encounter in a taxi queue in the early 90s, brought the funk-fuelled energy they've been building across UK stages for years. And local heroes Monobooth held it down for neighbouring Grimsby, delivering jazz, neo-soul and full-on funk improvisation with the ease of a band that genuinely loves every second.
As the first chapter closed and the sun-set on the first ever Everybody Loves the Sunshine, we were brought together again after a tough few years, and we've been coming back ever since - and inviting more crowds to join us!