Musicians will be clambering to get on Overground trains later this week as the onboard festival Sound Tracks returns for another year.
London’s rail network will not only take festival-goers to and from venues around the city, it will also stage some of the acts on its trains.
Sound Tracks took over the Overground in 2011 and is back this year by popular demand.
Festival co-director Amanda Lwin said: “By re-imagining public transport, Sound Tracks puts the fun into functional and humanises public transport.
“No one else has ever been given permission to put on an event like this, so it’s a unique opportunity to see the transport system completely, and enchantingly, transformed.”
Peter Austin, managing director for LOROL, which operates the London Overground on behalf of TfL, said: “We’re excited to be welcoming the performers and festival-goers onto the London Overground for this year’s Sound Tracks Festival.
“Having extended the service from East to South West London last year, we are able to take the travelling stage into new communities and help keep everyone entertained as they move between venues.”
Sound Tracks Festival will be held at various venues between Dalston and Peckham on Saturday, May 11.
Up to 30 acts – all of them acoustic – will play on Overground services between 12pm and the early evening.
Sound Tracks have given TfL six free pairs of tickets to give away. Keep an eye on Twitter @TfLOfficial to be in with a chance of winning.
