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A film festival curated by BAFTA-winning filmmaker Kieran Evans and Manic Street Preachers’ Nicky Wire will be one of the centre pieces of this year’s Velvet Coalmine Festival.

The music, arts and culture festival returns for its second year between September 1-6 at various venues around Blackwood.

Billed as ‘a festival of writing, rock ‘n’ roll and coal’, Velvet Coalmine will take over Blackwood with a hugely expanded line-up.

While literary, music industry, art and children’s events take place on the weekdays all around the town, the weekend sees a three-day bill at the town’s newly refurbished Miners’ Institute.

Bands confirmed to appear include recently reformed and much loved Newport four-piece Dub War, massively tipped duo Slaves and legendary US band Meat Puppets – playing their first ever Welsh show.

Elsewhere at Velvet Coalmine, Kieran Evans will curate a film festival with Nicky Wire at the town’s Maxime Cinema.

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A full bill of bands, films and events will be announced in the coming weeks.

Festival director Iain Richards said: “To have an iconic American band in the Meat Puppets, the legends of punk that are Glen Matlock and Don Letts and Blackwood’s very own Nicky Wire curating the film festival, ensures the town stages an event of the highest calibre and puts Velvet Coalmine firmly on the festival map.”

The full Miners’ Institute line-ups:

Friday, September 4 - Dub War, The Voyeurs, Gwenno

Saturday, September 5 - Slaves, Glen Matlock, Henry’s Funeral Shoe with DJ Don Letts

Sunday, September 6 - Meat Puppets, The Noses, Fjords

Early bird tickets on sale tomorrow from: www.velvetcoalmine.com