Prepare to rock out and get down at Cutler’s

The music festival returns to the Cutlers’ Arms this weekend — and there’s something for everyone.

Rotherham Hospice will take the proceeds of the two-day event, which will be headlined by New Romantic and electric band My Pierrot Dolls, fresh from their revival gig at the Chantry Tap in March.

Promoter Mick Hill, who founded Slamfest with the much-loved folk player and musical champion Richard “Masher” Millard, said the event would feature everything from punk, rock and indie to electro and Americana.

Admission is free and the show starts at 2pm each day.

Saturday’s line-up features Rotherham’s own Valley Road, plus Pave, Teletext Holidays, Spooner, Raw Honey and Hospital Food, and The Secrets that Kill Us, with Sweet Beast topping the bill and due on at 8.30pm.

On Sunday, Silverback, Steve Kittens, Kids Klumsy, Rough Trade, Searching for Sylvia and Suburban Toys will appear.

The Dolls — who are the subject of a documentary film due out later in the year — are due on at 7.45pm.

Slamfest ran from 2012 until 2018, with the slogan “music for the people, by the people”, but folded after struggling to attract sponsorship, despite Mick feeling it could have been “Rotherham’s very own mini Tramlines".

The festival has played host to a range of acts both old(er) and young over the years.

Heavy metal act Oliver Dawson Saxon took to the Cutler’s stage in 2015 and the up-and-coming Sherlocks wowed the crowds at the 2013 event.