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This weekend music fans across the city will be able to enjoy top acts such as headlining five-piece, Art Brut, preceded by more great acts including King Creosote, Bens Brother and up-and-coming talent from Liverpool herself (all in a day’s work, of course).

And after you have stopped whooping with delight at the full line-up, you can kick those mud-caked wellington boots aside my friend, because the whole thing is taking place indoors at the O2 Academy, Hotham Street.

Art Brut

Mark Cowley, promoter at CMP entertainment, explains why indoor festival ‘Indie Weekender’ will be your best spent fifteen pounds of the summer:

"You can go between any of the venues, watch any of the bands you want, you can watch a full-set, half a set, go upstairs, downstairs, do anything that you want to do in the venue."

Highlights of the line-up include: Art Brut, King Creosote, Bens Brother, Steve Appleton, Cordelier Club and Glasslights, also featuring “an amazing array of local bands” such as Monkey Steps, Voo and the lively five-piece Tramp Attack.

So, in other words (…or Mark Cowley’s) there will be "lots of music, lots of talent".

And if the prospect of running around the O2 to catch glimpses of all eighteen bands is not enough, Cowley goes on to announce that the festival will also showcase “a guest band, a competition winner which will be announced this week. It’s gonna be great”.

I’m sold.

Indie Weekender, O2 Academy, Hotham Street, Liverpool. July 19 2009. Doors 14:30. For more information visit the Summer Pops website.

Helen Weatherhead is a reporter for the BBC Blast scheme. For more information visit the BBC Blast webpage.