Neville Staple for Live and Kicking

The Neville Staple Band will headline the fourth Live and Kicking Music Festival which takes place on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd June, at The MEL Group Stadium, Kings Marsh, Sudbury, in Suffolk home to non-league football club AFC Sudbury.

Staple was part of the British Ska movement in the late 1970s early 1980s. As front man of The Specials he enjoyed a string of seven consecutive top ten hits he'll be bringing to Sudbury including Ska anthems 'Gangsters' and 'A Message to You, Rudi' and celebrated two number ones with 'Too Much too Young' and 'Ghost Town'.

Staple later formed Fun Boy Three with fellow Specials bandmates Terry Hall and Lynval Golding enjoying a further six top twenty hits including 'The Lunatics (Have Taken over the Asylumn)', 'Tunnel of Love' and 'It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It'.

He'll be heradlining the first night of the two day festival, which is being supported by the Sudbury Scooter Club and will host more than fifteen musical acts over both days and feature a number of musical acts from genres including headline, local and tribute bands.

Tickets for the event will be available in the near future, with prices and purchase details to be announced. This event will have camping as well as a number of hotels, hostels and guest houses in the area.

This is an event for all the family. As well as music there are many free and entertaining things for children to experience in the 'Kids Activity Village' which will include inflatables, lookalike characters, face painting, circus skills, balloon modeling, magic shows and children's entertainers.

The full line up is expected to be announced in the next two weeks, and organsers hope it will include other big name acts. Richard Instance, one of the festival organisers, said, "We are delighted to have secured someone of Neville Staple's stature; he is a true legend of the British music scene with a huge following.

"We are still a relatively young festival, so attracting acts of this size underlines the continued growth of the event. We are also working closely with the Sudbury Scooter Club this year, which is another exciting development and we will reveal more details on that partnership in the coming weeks. We are still working on finalising the full line-up of acts but we are certainly hoping to have at least one other big name to announce."

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