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Warning: this show may contain future headliners! Phillip Stoneman sits in for Andrew Marston, introducing the best new music from our area, including:

• With four huge gigs in four huge days - all you need to know about the gigs this weekend at Ludlow Castle - including Thursday headliners James, Friday support act Katherine Priddy from Alvechurch, and Suggs from Saturday headliners, Madness.

• We've got your full festival listings for the next fortnight, including Dubbed Out near Knutsford, Church Stretton Arts Festival featuring Evesham's Alistair McGowan, Rewind Festival North in Macclesfield and the world's longest running music festival in Worcester.

• Events coverage continues, including highlights of the UK's biggest blues festival, at Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire, Party In The Park at Bishop's Castle and the last ever Nozstock festival in Bromyard.

• From Scotland's biggest music festival, enjoy live tracks from our artist of the week - 19-year-old Albrighton sensation Nieve Ella - on the same line-up as Liam Gallagher and Calvin Harris, at TRNSMT in Glasgow.

• In the Music News: tributes to Macclesfield-born musician Jack Mayall, known as the Godfather of British Blues, and how Pershore's Toyah Willcox could be moving out of Worcestershire!

• Our session in full comes from Stoke-on-Trent rockers Sarcoline, in a thunderous performance, from on our stage at the Alsager Music Festival.

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