FOLLOWING the Larmer Tree Festival’s earlier announcement this month that Tom Jones will be headlining this summer, a warm-up party taking place on March 27 at O2 Academy Bournemouth.

The acts on the night include The Dub Pistols and Neville Staple. Boasting a 35-year-long career in the music industry, Neville Staple is the lead singer for the two-tone ska band The Specials and has his own group the Neville Staple Band.

At last year’s Glastonbury, Neville joined the Pistols live on stage for the encore Gangsters and the two music groups are looking to recreate this memorable music mix at the Larmer Tree Festival warm up party in Bournemouth next month The Dub Pistols are a London dub music, hip hop and big beat band.

From their early singles for Concrete Records to their genre defying Six Million Ways To Live album, the Dub Pistols have always added a much needed rock ‘n’ roll swagger to the UK’s dance scene.

Chewing up hip-hop, dub, ska and punk they have consistently defied genres and exceeded the highest of expectations. The Dub Pistols will no doubt be dropping some tracks from their recent album White Lines.

The Dubs’ Barry Ashworth is keen to stress the new album title isn’t a reference to drugs.

“It’s about the number of white lines we see on motorways and at airports when we’re travelling around all the time,” he explains.

White Lines has been described as more of a party album than their previous LP Worshipping The Dollar.