Well, here's one to put the cat among the acoustic pigeons (Just down the road for Greg). I'd be intrigued to see a few of these performing 'acoustically'.

The 'Acoustic (un-plugged) Festival of Britain'

I spotted the poster in Morrisons this afternoon.

From the web page:

An eclectic programme of Unplugged and Acoustic music from the genres of Folk, Roots, Celtic, Blues, Pop, Rock, Ska and much more set in rural South Cheshire. A great family day out, with 3 Music Tents, Stalls, Craft Displays, Juggling Schools, Beer Tent, Wine Bar, Enormous Marquees, Exotic Foods, Harry Ramsdens Chip Shop and a Record Fair.

Bristling with icons and music legends from 5 decades over 6,000 music fans each day will be enjoying 34 artists over 2 days on 3 stages including. The Stranglers, Steve Harley, Glenn Tilbrook from Squeeze, Elkie Brooks, The Animals, Paul Jones and The Blues Band, Pauline Black with acoustic supergroup 3MEN+Black, Mike Peters (The Alarm), Dennis Locorriere (the voice of Dr. Hook), Tom Hingley (Inspiral Carpets), Hayseed Dixie, Ezio, Waking the Witch, Ed Tudor Pole (ex Tenpole Tudor & Sex Pistols), Jackie McShee's Pentangle, Chumbawamba (acoustic) Ian McNabb (Icicle Works) The Cheshire Chord Company, and Sandi Thom.

JUST CONFIRMED American Grammy Award winning Bluegrass legend, Del McCoury and his band are making their ONLY UK festival appearance in the Sunday lineup - BOOK NOW !