Our Homegrown stages go some-thing like this. We call for bands to play at this year's festival. More than 200 of you - yes 200! - send in demos. We spend tortured hours listening, short-listing and arguing before we finally decide on this... the 2009 Homegrown line up. Too many great bands plus too few slots equals the hardest selection process ever. And if all that isn't exciting enough, we're also over the moon to be able to give a big Boro welcome to some super-cool German bands thanks to a very special collaboration with Olgas Rock Festival in Oberhausen. MML goes international. How good is that?!

 
 
    9:30pm The Hitchers
www.myspace.com/thehitchers
Infectious 1950's style rock 'n' roll as seen on the Vans Warped Tour in the USA!

8:30pm Our Secret Sins
www.myspace.com/oursecretsins
BBC 6 Music favourites creating an anthemic sound alá Arcade Fire meets Beta Band.

7:30pm Lifeless

www.myspace.com/lifelessboro
An explosive thrash attack sitting somewhere between Slayer and The Beastie Boys!

6:30pm This City Romance
www.myspace.com/thiscityromance
Top notch indie tunes from Middlesbrough's answer to The Arctic Monkeys! Believe.

5:30pm Jezzle
www.myspace.com/thejezzle
Introducing our new favourite rapper! For fans of Lethal Bizzle and Dizzee Rascal.

4:30pm The Reverse
www.myspace.com/thereversemusic
Indie-pop gems in the vein of The Cribs and Pigeon Detectives, but from Hartlepool.

3:30pm 3 Foot Ninja
www.myspace.com/3footninja
North Yorkshire indie-rockers fresh from gigs with The Subways and Pete and The Pirates.

2:30pm Idiot Savant
www.myspace.com/idiotsavantbanduk
Huw Stephens (Radio 1) favourite history-rockers! Think Nick Cave meets The Fall.

1:30pm Seething Floors

www.myspace.com/seethingfloors
Our friends from Germany who've been rockin' since 1989 like a Deutsch Skunk Anansie!

12:30pm Said The Gramophone
www.myspace.com/saidthegramophone
Ridiculously promising young band influenced by Joy Divison and Jesus & The Mary Chain.

 

 
 
   
 
   

 

 

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