The first 30+ acts for Nottingham’s Beat The Streets festival have been announced for the charity fundraiser taking place on Sunday 26 January 2025. The multi-venue event annually raises significant funds for Nottinghamshire homelessness charity Framework, with huge outpourings of support from the local music scene and community.
It’s set to be a landmark year for the DHP Family festival with the total raised for across all seven editions expected to top the £500,000 milestone.
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Returning to Beat The Streets are EVIL SCARECROW, one of the UK’s foremost heavy metal bands. More than just a metal gig, an Evil Scarecrow show is a piece of rock theatre unlike anything seen before. From the local pub to holding their own on the main stage at Bloodstock Festival, it has grown bigger, louder and sillier each year.
Nottingham-based rapper JAYAHADADREAM is also confirmed following a stellar year which saw the artist play Glastonbury after winning the festival’s 2024 Emerging Talent Competition. Beat The Streets is delighted to welcome her high energy thought provoking storytelling and hip hop beats to the festival.
RIDING THE LOW – the musical side project of actor Paddy Considine – will also kick off 2025 at Beat The Streets. Originally hailing from Burton in Derbyshire,Paddy is one of the UK’s best actors who recently starred in Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon, but his first acting break came in Nottingham director Shane Meadows’ film A Room for Romeo Brass. His musical venture comes to life with a visceral and immersive live set, which will also take to Download Festival stages next year.
The other confirmed artists are ADAM ZAREBA, AIRPORT DAD, COMMONS, DAVOLI, DRING, FAMILYFRIEND., HEADSTICKS, HIGHSPEED PEACH, ISAAC BLOOMFIELD, JAMES GOOCH, JUDE KIRK, KALIKO, KTLYLE, KING BLONDE, LEAH WILCOX, LYDIA BROOKS, MOLLY RALPH, PURPLE HAT MOB, RAINING BLUE, REVENGE OF CALCULON, SLEEP IN MOTION, STAINED GLASS, SWALLOWTAIL, THE HARBOURS, THE HOPLITES, THE PUBLICS, UJAHM, WEDDING BAND and ZACH THRASHER.
We’re really excited to announce our first wave of artists for Beat The Streets 2025. As usual we’ve got an amazing range of incredible local talent on board to support the event and Framework who are doing vital work with the money we raise. We’re so grateful to them for giving us their time and talent to perform, and we hope the people of Nottingham will show up like they usually do to help raise even more money for Framework – Joseph Patten, Festival booker
The festival will take place across major venues in the city centre including Rock City, Rescue Rooms, The Bodega and Rough Trade with all proceeds from tickets, bar, and merch going directly to Framework.
Each year the money raised at Beat The Streets plays a vital part in maintaining support for rough sleepers in Nottingham. In October, the Street Outreach Team found 49 people sleeping rough in just one night—a staggering 188 percent increase from last year. With the need growing, Framework is running a Winter Appeal to save their Street Outreach teams to urgently plug a funding shortfall of £189,122.
Since starting Beat The Streets in 2018, the money we’ve raised to support Framework has gone towards some great projects that everyone at DHP has been incredibly proud to help fund. This year’s event is more than likely going to bring our grand total past the £500,000 milestone and we look forward to celebrating that, alongside the Nottingham music community, in January – George Akins, DHP Family MD
All the monies raised at Beat The Streets 2025 will go towards securing the future of these vital frontline workers who go out 365 days a year to provide lifesaving support to rough sleepers across the city.
