WINCHESTER Live is a new, week-long music festival running in October which aims to promote the city and county as a thriving music town with big rock n roll names and a wealth of local talent.
Taking place across three venues and boasting 11 gigs in seven nights from October 13 to 19, it will be an opportunity to showcase international and regional talents.
The festival will take place at The Railway, The Tower and the newly-built Vault, which is part of Winchester University.
The line-up for this inaugural year includes the alternative art-punk nu-legends Art Brut, New Zealand heavy rockers Die! Die! Die!, pictured, and another, as yet unnamed, secret special guest. They will appear with acts from the London Folk Invasion and promoters Bloody Awful Poetry and Blissfields Festival.
For the past two years, Placid Piranha Promotions, founders of local fanzine The Winchester Massive, has put on a weeklong Festival in Winchester in aid of Oxfam, as part of the Oxjammusic festival.
This festival has brought together some of the best local acts and now with Girls in Green Shoes, Bloody Awful Poetry, When The Lights Go Out, Mine Host and Blissfields Festival on board, Winchester Live will be the most essential music event in Hampshire this year.
Among the local names are Djandgo (Southampton), The Wellbeing (Isle of Wight), Nicotine Smile (Winchester), Hijera (Southampton) and Fresh Legs (Southampton).
Wristbands for the week, priced £25, and more information are available from winchesterlive.com
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