Draft:Away From Home Festival

Away From Home Festival is an annual music festival created and curated by English singer and songwriter Louis Tomlinson. Since it's beggining in 2021, every year the one-day event changes the city where it takes place.

2021
On July 29, 2021 via his social media Tomlinson shared that for the last 12 months he had the idea of creating his own festival. It was announced as a celebrating the comeback of live music after the COVID pandemic. The festival took place on Bank Holiday Monday - August 30, 2021 - at Crystal Palace Bowl, London. The first edition of the festival was completely free with an attendance of 8,500. Still in the context of the pandemic, the public had to have two doses of a COVID-19 vaccination, a negative Lateral Flow Test, or natural immunity based upon a positive PCR test taken within 180 days of the event.

Lineup
 * Bilk
 * The Snuts
 * Louis Tomlinson
 * Special guest DJ Jess Iszatt

It was the first public appearence and live performance of Tomlinson since the two shows he could perform from his first tour Louis Tomlinson World Tour before the shut down because of the COVID pandemic and his Guinness World Record livestream at the end of 2020. He debuted a brand new song called "Change".

The Away From Home Global Streaming Event

After the festival, Tomlinson announced a mini documentary directed by Charlie Lightening, who had previously worked with in several music videos from his first album Walls. The film featured behind the scenes access and the process of planning and producing the festival and with the 70 minute headline show of Tomlinson. It was broadcast on Veeps on September 4, 2021.

2022
On June 8, 2022 thought the website of the festival it was announced the second edition. This time the chosen destination was Málaga, Spain. The one-day event took place on August 27, 2022 at the Marenostrum Fuengirola. The 18,000 tickets were sold out a few hours after the announcement. To complete the lineup the festival offered the chance to a new band to join. The submissions opened on August 19,2021 and the band selected by Tomlison was a scottish band called Voodoos.

Lineup 


 * Voodoos
 * Hinds
 * Sun Room
 * STONE
 * The Vaccines
 * Louis Tomlinson
 * Special guest DJ Lev and DJ MAADRAASSOO

2023
In the middle of his Faith In The Future World Tour, Tomlinson announced the third edition of the festival that took place on August 19, 2023 at Parco BussolaDomani Lido di Camaiore, Italy. Again, Tomlinson opened the submissions for new bands and the selected was SHADE from Manchester.

Lineup 


 * SHADE
 * HotWax
 * Andrew Cushin
 * The Cribs
 * Blossoms
 * Louis Tomlinson
 * Special guest DJ Carl Barat and Abbie McCarthy

According to La Nazione, hundreds of fans from all over the world have camped for several days to be the first to enter. The mayor of Lido di Camaiore, Marcello Pierucci, celebrated on his social media that the event attracted audiences from all over the world.

Philosophy
In The Away From Home Global Streaming Event, Tomlinson revealed that he always wanted to do a festival since he was in One Direction but it never happened. His idea it was to give back as he values live music and real connection with the fans. In 2021, when the festival started the inicial purpose it was to celebrate live music being back after the COVID pandemic and lockdown, but it also transformed in a platform to showcase new artists and to show his fans the bands that he loves and spends his time listening to.

Tomlinson told NME, that the development stage of band's careers it always been something interested to him because it's one of the most excting times and that's really important to him -any way he can - to help and benefit any band in that stage. During his Louis Tomlinson World Tour and Faith In The Future World Tour he gave new bands and up-and-coming artists the change to be his openers.

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