GWENT rock band Feeder will headline a major music festival in Ebbw Vale this summer.

Chepstow singer Grant Nicholas and his band, best known for hits such as 'Buck Rogers' and 'Just A Day', will perform in front of a crowd of 3,000 at The Steelhouse Festival 2012.

The Welsh International Classic Rock Festival takes place some 1200ft up at Hafod-y-Dafal Farm, near Ebbw Vale over three-days between 27 and 29 July and is officially the highest music festival in the UK.

Other acts to perform are Norther Ireland's The Answer and local bands Revoker and The Dirty Youth as well as Blackwood-based Clifford brothers 'Henry's Funeral Shoes'.

Matt Rhead, co-founder of festival organisers, Limeface, said this year's event promises to be "bigger and better and the first."

The calibre of artists that we have been able to attract to this year's event will signal a massive jump in the profile of the Festival and the surrounding area".

The quality of international acts that we have lined up will firmly establish this festival on the national music scene, and become something that Wales can be rightly proud of".

More acts are due to be announced at Steelhouse Club, Ebbw Vale, tomorrow night Tickets cost between £15 and £55 but children under 14 go free.

For details visit www.steelhousefestival.com