TICKETS are still available for a one-day music festival in York.

Yorfest runs on Knavesmire on Saturday, September 26, with nine bands currently on the bill, and one more to be announced.

Bands confirmed include headliners The Pigeon Detectives, pictured above, along with The Sunshine Underground, and Leeds’ Apollo Junction, whose single has been played on Radio Two. Also there are The Sherlocks, Alvarez Kings, Other People’s Lives, Stop Drop Robot, and York’s own The Blue Dawns, and organisers have just announced Bang Bang Romeo will also be performing, just weeks after their appearance at this year’s Isle of Wight Festival.

The festival will also feature the Irie Vibes Sound System Dance Tent, bringing a Jamaican dance scheme to proceedings, and there will also be locally-sourced food and drink stalls, with fairground rides and children’s activities.

Simon Roe, festival events manager, said: “Along with all the great Yorkshire bands, Yorfest can boast that it really is Yorkshire through and through. Everything from the stage, sound equipment, the superb street food vendors and all our partners including security and toilet hire, have all been carefully chosen from within the region to make this a Truly Yorkshire Festival for Yorkshire people.”

Tickets cost £15 or £10 for concessions, and are available at yorfest.com and ticketweb.co.uk or from Gibson’s Bar in Micklegate, or Jumbo Records and Crash Records in Leeds, and the festival is also supporting The Alzheimer’s Society and Yorkshire Air Ambulance.