KIT Holmes’s trademark sultry vocals and virtuoso guitar playing will grace Hanger Farm Arts Centre in Totton for an intimate gig tomorrow from 8pm.

Described as ‘Macy Gray meets Nick Drake’, she has toured extensively with her guitar hero John Etheridge. Her recent gigs include Paul McCartney’s LIPA, the Anne Frank Awards at the BBC, a performance for Bill Bryson and Andy Kershaw and a headline at the International Guitar Festival of Great Britain.

IT is dubbed the south coast’s biggest alternative festival.

Takedown Festival will return to the University of Southampton once again tomorrow with headline acts The Blackout, While She Sleeps and Sonic Boom Six dominating the five stages.

The Blackout, who will headline the Rock Sound Stage, have toured the world with their fast-paced rhythms and relentlessly raw energy, from ripping up stages at the Reading and Leeds festival to showcasing their talents to fans in Tokyo.

Sheffield rockers While She Sleeps will be heading to America after the Southampton festival playing in California, Las Vegas and New York on the Vans Warped Tour.

Sonic Boom Six are an explosive and outspoken five-piece rock band from Manchester described as “taking ska, pop, grime, dubstep, punk and metal apart, then rebuilding them as a hyperactive hybrid.”

Also appearing are Don Broco with their melodically edged rock, We Are The Ocean, Mallory Knox, Max Raptor, Glamour of the Kill and Arcane Roots.

Southampton-based music promoter Advance Promotions say the festival, which opens its doors at 1.30pm, will be “bigger and better than ever before” and boast local acts such as Burn the Fleet, Desolated and Our Hollow, Our Home.

THEY were at the forefront of the British punk movement with the Sex Pistols and The Clash.

Now Buzzcocks, innovators of the independent record scene and punk rock superstars who have been cited as inspirational by bands such as REM, Nirvana and Green Day, will come to Southampton.

With eight studio albums, more than twenty singles and EPs, a constellation of compilations, covers by other bands and songs on film soundtracks have put Buzzcocks among the top echelons of British recording artists.

Buzzcocks will play at The Brook in Southampton on Thursday, May 16 from 8pm.