Music critic Greil Marcus once likened The Mendoza Line to an American-made Mekons, but it appears that the comparison doesn't apply to the bands' respective ability to survive breakups and line-up shifts over time.
The line-up includes winners of the Jersey Live Battle of the Bands competition, Bones, as Saturday night headliner and will be opened by the winner of the Junior Battle of the Bands competition.
Speaking about the line-up for the series, Dave Haslam said it was "not an exercise in choosing which bands will one day sell loads of records which is the Simon Cowell way of seeing music".