The Wanted perform to 30,000 at North East Live 22nd June 2013

This Saturday The Wanted took to the stage alongside other huge artists such as JLS, Lawson, Rita Ora, Conor Maynard and X factor favourites such as Union J, Little mix and James Arthur for the first ever year of North East Live. The all day festival stretched across 8 hours and attracted a 30,000+ audience to Sunderland's Stadium of light, home to Sunderland football club. The event was hosted by Capitals breakfast show hosts Bodge, Matt and Jojo who seemed excited to be the hosts for the first ever NEL which is also the only festival of its kind to come to the northeast.

The Wanted took to the stage as dusk fell to the screaming crowd who's appeared to mostly be there to see TW. They started with their number one, debut single "all time low" which really got the crowd going. The group also sang their hits, heart vacancy, gold forever, glad you came, Chasing the sun, Lightning and I found you as well as their Killers medley. The boys had fun on stage throwing water over fans, Tom threw his Sunderland T-shirt into the crowd and also jumped off stage. TW were the ONLY artist who worked the WHOLE stage interacting with fans all around them!

Here are some pictures from the day:

(Self took pictures)