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Greenock is set to host its very first music festival, “Doon The Watter” with a hot line up of Scottish local and rising talent on the bill.

The Bluetones will play the one-day festival taking place in Greenock’s Cappielow Park, with other bands such as the Cinematics, My Latest Novel and Drive By Argument gracing the stage on Saturday May 19th.

Greenock-based promoters White 52 have arranged the gig hoping to attract music-lovers from all over Scotland. Managing Director Tommy McGovern said: “The bill has a deliberately broad musical appeal – we want to bring the community together and welcome an audience from Glasgow and beyond”.

The day’s full line up goes as follows: The Bluetones, Hothouse Flowers, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Drive By Argument, The Cinematics, Nick Harper, Cosmic Rough Riders, The Hedrons, My Latest Novel, Martin Stephenson & The Daintees, Crash My Model Car, Carol Laula, Dresden, Yashin

Tickets are priced at £46.00 and are available from Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.co.uk) or via www.doonthewatter.com
Gates will open at 10am, first act on 12pm. The event will close at 11pm.Further information, including various travel details (Cappielow Park is 25 miles from Glasgow), can be found at www.doonthewatter.com or call 0871 200 3336

The Dykeenies are looking for your new ideas for artwork for their new single!
Your idea can be anything - from a doodle to a photograph and everything inbetween - just send it to info@lavoltarecords.com along with your name, address and mobile number.The winning entry will be manufactured into a run of cd wallets, perfect for your Dykeenies downloads, and distributed at the following gigs:April 10th, 100 Club, London April 13th, QMU,Glasgow.
Everybody who enters will have their name printed on this collectable sleeve and will be sent their own copy.Entry closes at midnight on March 28th so start getting creative!Please send artwork as jpg, photoshop or pdf file and ensure file size is under 5mb. One entry only per email address. The winner will be contacted by email or phone on March 29th and may need a high resolution version of the winning artwork to ensure it is print quality.

Drive By Argument's new single The Sega Method is available for download from iTunes and the limited edition vinyl is up for grabs in Virgin and HMV.

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As hoped, T in the Park has been granted an additional capacity increase to now allow 80,000 T fans to attend the festival…

The additional tickets will go on sale NEXT FRIDAY,9th March @ 9am and again will be limited to 2 per person/per day/per credit card. Tickets will be available by telephone and internet only, at www.tinthepark.com, or by calling 0870 169 0100.

So… if you missed your chance to buy tickets first time around, be sure to not miss this!