Loopfest & Upton Folk previewed

Andrew Marston introduces the best new music from our area, including:

• We're looking at Loopfest – the 25-venue, three-day festival packed with bands - finding out why they've been given £40,000 by Arts Council England.

• Hearing from the Worcester DJ who's hosting the city's first-ever Boiler Room 360° party.

• Meeting the team behind the Upton Folk Festival, which has been taking place for more than three decades.

• Finding out how a Telford producer, who wrote a song in two hours, has clocked up hundreds of millions of streams online after his music got used by Formula One, Ferrari and the NBA.

• In our Music News: Local shows for Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, the Searchers plus Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Adele & Beyoncé's engineer Andrew Scheps.

• Our spotlight artist is an alternative, electro-pop performer, from Stoke, who's ended up singing in Amsterdam with Nicky Romero and supporting Dizzee Rascal.

• Carol Decker of T'Pau fame reminisces about her time in Shropshire, retracing her journey to fame.

• An exclusive interview with Guy Chambers, songwriter to the stars - including Stoke's Robbie Williams - on how he ended up working with music royalty.