TRNSMT’s Director Geoff Ellis on changes to the festival for 2024 and this year’s lineup

We speak to Geoff Ellis ahead of the big event this weekend.

Transcript

00:00I'm Jeff Ellis, I'm the Festival Director of Transmet.

00:03A few changes to the site, we've got a new headline sponsor, RockSword,

00:08that's the first change, some new sponsors involved as well with different activations.

00:13We've got the hangout area which is a new area for over 18s, it's a bar with a canopy over it

00:20so you can sit inside, have a drink, Bongo's Bingo will be there, other performers and everything

00:25will be there as well so that should be a lot of fun. We've got a reset area where people

00:29can go and chill out and literally recharge themselves and their phone batteries as well,

00:35where the three are our mobile partner. The line-ups are the big thing really,

00:43Calvin Harris and Jerry Cinnamon are the two Scottish headliners and Liam Gallagher doing

00:50his Definitely Maybe set which should be wonderful as well, it was great at the Hydro recently.

00:56And then other Scottish acts like Garbage, The Snuts, Dylan John Thomas and lots of really

01:03young emerging artists as well on the River stage and at the lower ends of the King's Touch stage.

01:11Tom Grennan, Jason Stathis, Natasha Benningfield, Alison Goldfrapp,

01:16Lauren Spencer-Smith, Sugar Babes, who else, I mentioned Tom Grennan, Rick Astley as well,

01:26so Rick Astley's never played a transmit before so that should be good fun. We keep evolving,

01:34we've managed to claw a bit of space back by moving, there's a thing called the Boneyard

01:39where you put all the trucks and everything, we've moved that to a different location

01:43which has enabled that bit of the site to be opened up. You can't see any stages from there

01:48so we've created a reset area in there which is where they mentioned about recharging your

01:52batteries, both metaphorically and literally, but the confines of the site generally are the

01:59same so it's about just tweaking things, making general improvements. Personally,

02:07Last Dinner Party, looking forward to them, I saw them a year ago, just over a year ago,

02:13it's The Great Escape in Brighton, loved their first single, they have gone on a meteoric rise

02:22since then, Wonder Horse I think would be great, Snuts, always great live, Dylan John Thomas will

02:28be too, Alison Goldfrapp, she puts on a fantastic show, she'll be amazing.

02:35So yeah, there's too many to pick one particular act and I can't think of a better way to close a

02:41festival than Calvin Harris really, his debut at Transmit and I think that's a really fitting way

02:48to close the weekend.