Last updated 11:37, Friday, 04 July 2008

HEAVEN’S Basement, from London, named as best newcomers by Classic Rock magazine last year play Monroes Bar, Workington, tonight.

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Best newcomers: Heaven’s Basement play Monroes tonight

They have been brought to the town by an 18-year-old music promoter who has established her own promotions group single-handedly.

Lucy Aiston is the founder of Love After Promotions, which she set up to attract different bands with different styles of music to play in Workington.

Heaven’s Basement play Seventies and Eighties-inspired rock and will be joined at the gig by Carlisle band Falling Red and Awol, from Maryport.

Lucy is a native of Workington and returned to her home town from Newcastle earlier this year.

She set up Love After Promotions to bring a variety of bands from across the country to the music venue, and so offer local audiences a better selection of musical styles.

“I’m into all different types of music, from country to metal to punk,” she said. “But often it’s just tribute bands playing in Workington, and I wanted to provide something for everybody, and not just attract the same people all the time.”

From contacts with bands in Newcastle and locally she said it had not been difficult to attract a variety of different acts.

“It has come together quite easily,” she said.

The first gig organised by Love After was at Monroes in April and attracted Manchester glam rock outfit Dear Superstar, indie rockers To Save a Soul, from Newcastle, and local Cumbrian metal bands Jusure and Kyra.

It almost filled the 200-capacity venue and persuaded Lucy that there was an audience in the town for different styles of music.

“It was a really, really big success and I got a lot of positive feedback,” she said.

“A lot of people who came to that first gig said they would come to the next one and I’ve had a lot of mail asking when it is.”

Another is scheduled for July 23 and will feature To Save a Soul again, fellow Newcastle indie band Your Only, and two metal bands, The Scholars, from Carlisle, and Entwined Chaos from Whitehaven.

Tonight’s gig opens at 9pm. Tickets £6.