PROGRAMMES for this year's Darwen Live event will go on sale next month.

Full details of all the performers will be included in the booklet, which will be promoted by some of the artistes at Darwen Library Theatre tomorrowy.

Organised by Blackburn with Darwen Council and now in its ninth year, the two-day festival will be headlined by Peter Tork of The Monkees, with an all-American band, playing many of the songs made famous on the 1960s television series.

Also scheduled to perform will be bands including The Bluetones, The Men They Couldn't Hang, China Crisis, Goldblade, Stray, Eddie and the Hot Rods and Swill and the Swaggerband.

The bus station will be closed during the festival, with service being diverted and there will be a number of road closures in the town centre.

The festival is being held during the Spring Bank Holiday weekend, Sunday and Monday May 25 and 26, from 1pm.

This year's main stage sponsor is Darwen-based WEC Group Limited.

Programmes will be on sale from May 6.