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WARNING: This show may contain future chart-toppers! Andrew Marston introduces the best new music from our area, including:

• From backroom gigs to the world’s greatest festival - we're meeting the local artists stepping up on stage at Glastonbury 2025.

• Kate Justice shines a light on the team behind-the-scenes making Glastonbury happen - including Fiona Thomas from Ross-on-Wye, who’s been living on-site for two months.

• Ahead of her Glastonbury debut, Stafford's Eva Lazarus brings the full force of her genre-defying fire to Maida Vale studios - expect live energy, fierce flows, and vocals steeped in soul and Caribbean rhythm.

• Glastonbury isn’t the only show this weekend - our festival guide rounds up the big events happening across the area, including Upton Jazz Festival, which transforms Worcestershire’s riverside town into a stage for global greats and rising local stars.

• In your Music News: A junior football club in Worcestershire, originally set up with help from 60s hitmakers The Searchers, will keep the band’s name alive after they play their final show at Glastonbury this weekend. Plus, we meet the Stoke-on-Trent musician who’s just landed a major record deal, and the Baschurch musician who we've just confirmed for the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Introducing stage at this year's Reading & Leeds Festival.

• When Andrew met Mick Ralphs. Paying tribute to the Mott The Hoople/Bad Company guitarist who was a huge part of the Hereford music scene.

• In this week's Musicians' Masterclass: He’s written with Purple Disco Machine, Jonas Blue, Tom Grennan, Stormzy, Lulu and Armin Van Buuren - Mike Kintish joins Gracey and Låpsley to break down the art of writing a hit.

• Incredible musicians, extraordinary places: To celebrate 100 years of Stoke-on-Trent, we’re showcasing six local DJs performing their original music in each of the city’s six towns. He once made the clay for fine china - now he’s shaping basslines. Longton’s Jason.L brings his original tracks to Gladstone Pottery, flying the flag for Stoke in the global house music scene.

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