Katy Noone produces BBC Introducing on Radio Humberside on Sundays at 8pm. This weekend, they'll be broadcasting live from Springboard Festival, which runs from today until Sunday.

My favourite moment at Springboard Festival 2010 was Jim Sorrow, former frontman with Hull Punks Freaks Union, thrashing his guitar, screaming at the audience and then being joined by some bloke down the front doing a solo on the spoons. Classic audience participation from one of my favourite festivals of the year!

James from Late Night Fiction, headlining on Sunday night at Springboard

Cottingham is a small town, practically a village just outside of Hull but for the past six years it’s put on this brilliant music event which just keeps getting bigger and bigger every May. They’re promising 180 bands and acoustic artists this year, all playing at six venues in Cottingham.

I love this festival NOT because it’s all in pub venues and I can leave my wellies at home. No. It’s because of the atmosphere and the camaraderie and the sheer scale of it.

Every band from our part of the world is on the bill, some of them ditching their amps for acoustic sets, others giving it their all on makeshift stages in corners of the bar. Everywhere you go, there’s music. You start at midday at one pub and then just hop to the next one as soon as you fancy something different.

BBC Introducing on Radio Humberside broadcasts live from Cottingham Springboard Festival on Sunday 29th May from 8pm. Can’t wait.

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