Local heroes Ocean Colour Scene and Editors are to headline Beyond The Tracks – Birmingham city centre’s first three-day rock festival.

Months in the planning, the three-day line-up will run from Friday, September 15 to Sunday, September 17, 2017, and each day will have a capacity of 10,000.

It's on from 2pm to 10.30pm the first day and then noon to 10.30pm the other two days.

The site will include bars, food and loos.

The view across the site for Beyond The Tracks looking towards Millennium Point (centrea) and the former Curzon Street Railway Station (right)
The view across the site for Beyond The Tracks looking towards Millennium Point (centrea) and the former Curzon Street Railway Station (right)

Early bird tickets were priced at £45 per day, with tickets sold later rising to £49.50.

Student tickets will be £40, only one per NUS card holder and you must have your card to collect.

Tickets are on sale now, click here

A spokesman said: “We are seeing this as a ‘Last glimpse of summer' event at a time when there isn’t normally anything else on and when the weather can still be pretty good.

A fan applauds Ocean Colour Scene in Moseley Park
A fan applauds Ocean Colour Scene in Moseley Park, 2016

“We are hoping it will also give a push to local bands who will include The Twang, Jaws, Superfood, The Americas, Table Scraps, Victories at Sea, Goodnight Lenin, Blackash and Dorcha.”

The event will have a 10.30pm curfew each night.

What’s the line-up?

Beyond the Tracks
Beyond the Tracks

Friday 15: Orbital, Leftfield, Faithless DJ Set, Jagwar MA, Higher Intelligence Agency. Doors open 2pm.

Saturday 16: Ocean Colour Scene, Maximo Park, The Coral, The Twang, Carl Barat and the Jackals, Jaws, Superfood, The Americas, Health & Efficiency, The Sandinistas, Table Scraps and Sugarthief. Doors open at noon.

Sunday 17: Editors, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Wild Beasts, Slowdive, Peter Hook & The Light, Nadine Shah, Josefin Ohrn, Goodnight Lenin, Eera, Blackash, Victories at Sea, Dorcha. Doors open at noon.

Who are the acts?

Guitarist Steve Cradock with singer/guitarist Simon Fowler
Guitarist Steve Cradock with singer/guitarist Simon Fowler

Friday night headliners Orbital will see the Hartnoll brothers reunited after a five-year hiatus.

Orbital were one of the key acts responsible for taking electronic music into the mainstream and out of the clubs and into live venues and festivals.

Leftfield’s progressive mix of house, dub and reggae defined them out as true electronic music pioneers.

Faithless released some of most anthemic singles in dance music history with Insomnia, God Is A DJ and We Co 1.

Jagwar Ma are Australian neo psychedelic ravers whose albums include Howlin and Every Now And Then.

Saturday marks the return of Ocean Colour Scene, who last played in Birmingham in the summer of 2016 when they celebrated the 20th anniversary of their Moseley Shoals album by playing two nights in the private Moseley Park.

Ocean Colour Scene headlining in Moseley Park
Ocean Colour Scene headlining in Moseley Park in 2016

Their hits include The Riverboat Song, The Day We Caught The Train, Hundred Mile High City.

North East guitar-based quartet a returning this year with a new album, Risk To Exist.

Liverpool band The Coral will perform a career-spanning, genre-juggling set encompassing Mersey pop, psychedelic rock and rich ballads.

The Twang in Moseley Park, 2016
The Twang in Moseley Park, 2016

The Twang’s hits include Ice Cream Sundae, Push The Ghosts Either Way.

Carl Barat and his band The Jackals released their latest single Sister recently and aim for a "heavier music background" than Carl's other band, The Libertine's.

As well as the established Goodnight Lenin, other emerging local acts include indie-pop band Jaws, Dirty Hit signees Superfood, 70’s rock evangelists The Americas and art-rock experimentalists Health & Efficiency.

The Sandinistas are a new Welsh pop-punk band.

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Sunday night will be closed by huge multi-million selling headliners

Tom Smith of the Editors in 2012
Tom Smith of the Editors in 2012

Editors comprise Stafford University alumni and Birmingham residents with anthems including Munich, Blood and Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors.

The Jesus and Mary Chain set the bench-mark in the post Sex Pistols music scene of London with their seminal debut album Psychocandy.

After five albums, Wild Beasts deliver electro-indie with a rock swagger.

The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Jesus and Mary Chain

Expect solo material and timeless New Order and Joy Division classics from Peter Hook & The Light.

The day will also include sultry love songs courtesy of Nadine Shah, the Stockholm psychedelia of Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation, blues and Americana from Goodnight Lenin, acid rock meets acid house from Blackash, Victories At Sea’s post-punk synth and the strings, electronics, synths and heavy beats of Birmingham’s Dorcha.

How to get tickets

Day tickets are £54, student £43.50 and Weekend £143.25 (inc admin fee) + £2.55 fulfilment fee per order

The tickets are on sale now from The Ticket Factory and all you have to do is click here

Where is the festival? How to get there and where to park

Beyond the Tracks takes place on land off Park Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B4 7AP.

The venue will be a giant patch of grass bounded by Park Street, Fazeley Street and New Canal Street close to Eastside City Park, Millennium Point and the site of the future HS2 station near the old Curzon Street Station.

The nearest train station is Moor Street, about five minutes' walk away.

Birmingham New Street train station and Birmingham Coach Station are both about 10 minutes' walk from the festival site.

Festivalgoers who live locally are advised to travel by bus.

Organisers advise people not to come by car but if you do opt for driving to the event, then the nearest car parks are Millennium Point Car Park in Jennens Road, Curzon Street Car Park and the smaller car parks on Fazeley Street.

Who is behind Beyond The Tracks?

The site for new three-day rock festival Beyond The Tracks
The site for new three-day rock festival Beyond The Tracks

Beyond The Tracks is produced by the local promoters behind Moseley Folk Festival (12 years), Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul (eight years) and Lunar Festival (four years).

They have promoted some of the biggest outdoors shows in the city including performances by Chic feat Nile Rodgers, Public Enemy, De La Soul, Laura Marling, Johnny Marr, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Bonobo, Roy Ayers, Levellers, Ocean Colour Scene, The Proclaimers, Television and Super Furry Animals.