Dottie Mai in session

Warning: This show may contain future headliners! Andrew Marston introduces the best new music from our area, including:

• We're live from the Hay Festival where artists like Billy Ocean, Paloma Faith, West End icon Sir Tim Rice and BBC Introducing stars Outpost Drive are on the bill.

• From Bottle Ovens to Beats - a Stoke-on-Trent pottery's hosting its first ever rave! We'll be meeting the man behind the music who's fulfilling a childhood dream of performing at Gladstone Pottery Museum.

• Massive summer tours take centre stage, but behind the scenes, small venues face a crisis. While stadiums fill for iconic reunions, we hear how local venues - like Albert's Shed - are having to prioritise ticket sales over supporting new music.

• Meeting one of our area's youngest DJs, 11-year-old Couchy from Worcester, who’s been spinning vinyl since age six and is now lighting up day raves across the city.

• From under 1% year-on-year to a 50% rise - country music is making waves in the UK charts. We find out the impact this is having on our Shropshire country superstars.

• In our Music News: Previewing the final weekend of the Elgar Festival and hearing from Jax Jones, The Wombats and Ocean Colour Scene as part of the Stoke 100 celebrations at Trentham Gardens.

• The last in our series from this year's Nantwich Jazz, Blues & Music Festival with a Stafford musician who taught herself piano by ear, skipped BRIT School, and somehow landed on a Ministry of Sound album - meet the unstoppable Dottie Mai.

• Announcing which local musicians we've put forward to play on the BBC Introducing stage at this year's Reading and Leeds Festival.

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