Showcase for covers bands

The Met Lounge continues its crusade to keepproviding live music in the centre of Peterborough with the launch of a new night aimed solely for new and emerging ‘covers’ bands. Starting on September 8 at 8.30pm the venue will be trying to create a ‘pub’ style environment for bands to play their favourite covers to hopefully newandenthusiasticaudience. Kicking off the series will be Peterborough’s Clarksdale Contract – a blues band formed out of members of Peterborough groups ‘Lizzy On The Loose’ and ‘The Tunnel’. Fuelled by a passion for blues music in all its forms and a desire to bring together different elements of other genres of music, Clarksdale Contract entertain audiences both young andold with some classic tracks written by artists such as Muddy Waters & Howling Wolf, through to Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton. Doors will open at 8.30pm with the band on stage at 9pm for the first set, second set starting around 9.45pm. Entry will be free and there’ll be deals on the bar all night.