Rumble Strips return to their roots

Exeter favourites, the Rumble Strips, played an intimate gig on Monday with Gaymers Grassroots Gigs, a series of exclusive money can't buy gigs which bring fans up close and personal with some of the most exciting bands on the British music scene.

Now in its second year, Gaymers Grassroots Gigs see six bands head back to their hometowns to perform an intimate one-off set in a local venue close to their heart.

The Rumble Strips entertained a packed out crowd, containing over 200 lucky competitions winners, at The Cavern in Exeter. Opening with 'No Soul' the Rumble Strips rocked the house for the home town crowd, with a performance that included tracks from their new album, produced by Mark Ronson, due out in July. The new album 'Welcome to The Walk Alone' is the follow up to the band's critically acclaimed 2007 debut, 'Girls and Weather'.

Henry Clarke of The Rumble Strips, said: "Having spent most of the last year away from home, touring round Europe and the States and working on our new record with Mark Ronson in New York, we've really looked forward to getting back down to Devon and visiting some of our old haunts. As teenagers, playing in Exeter was a big deal for country boys like us, and The Cavern particularly, holds lots of great memories."

Other acts in the Gaymers Grassroots Gigs series include The Holloways who returned to Camden, Starsailor who performed to a packed-out crowd in Wigan, The Maccabees who played in Brighton during The Great Escape festival, The Zutons, who will be playing as part of Liverpool Sound City festival and The Twang who are heading home to Birmingham.

For a chance to win tickets to see The Twang simply visit www.myspace.com/gaymerslivemusic and enter your details.

If you're not lucky enough to win a ticket, you can catch it all and more on www.gaymersmusic.com and www.myspace.com/gaymerslivemusic, which will feature exclusive videos from the gigs, interviews with the bands and other behind the scenes photos and content.

You'll also be able to watch the gigs on Channel 4 in a 6 part series shown from June onwards. Each show will feature interviews with the bands and footage from the gigs, as well as an intimate look at the people and places that inspired the bands to get where they are today.

The first new track, 'London' from the Rumble Strips new album is available as a free download, exclusively from www.rumblestrips.co.uk.