Here's this years hopefuls for the Riverside, hailing from all over the country:

Acer: alternative rock
Angryman: Acoustic-driven
Barzaillai: Boston based rock band
Beard of Zeuss: 3- piece band
Between Darkness & Dawn: Metal hardcore
Bleeding Heart Narrative: Singer / guitarist Oliver Barrett
Blind Turtle: Indie group
Burlesque: Rock covers band
Butterfly Polite: Laid back acoustic sound
Carried Out: Metal band,
Chi Weapon: Glaswegian band
Chris Letcher: Songwriter backed by full band
Circa '73: Covers from Kaiser Chiefs to Feeder.
Crash Course: Pop punk
Dare: Singer, songwriter and producer Ben Frost
Day Shift: 3-piece group
Destructors 666: Punk
Dyframix: Trance dance experimental
Eleventh Hour Phoenix: Punk, rock and ambient music.
Famous Last Words: Pop-rock-emo
Feet To The Fire: Country and blues-tinged acoustic
Firedaze: Folk rock
Flyin Ike: 6 piece rock band
Goldryder: Guitar-led indie band.
Good Dog: Pop/punk blend
Groove Cartel: 7-piece funk music
Hella Cholla: Boy-girl 2-piece indie/tropical/soul
Herbedacious: Acoustic Dylan/Neil Young sounds
Industry: Industrial rock.
Just Another Nightmare: Metal
Kaideka: Penzance band
K.I.N.E.T.I.K: Christopher Mitchell - an MC
League Of Mentalmen: Punk with a twist.
Lux Mundi: Melton Mowbray Indie
Mother Of Six: Wrexham-based band,
Muha: Singer-songwriter with guitar
Murray Laing: Singer songwriter.
No One Left: Solid, hard rock
Organize Chaos: Ska
Pre Sleep Monologue: blues and folk
Queens English: Hip-hop / punk .
Revenue: Clash/Jam/Specials style
Sam B: 15-year-old singer/guitarist
Slay That Dog: Cambridge /Stamford band.
Smokescreen: 4-piece local band
Somatic: Rock
Stringfinger: Metal/hip-hop
Supa Naut: Birmingham rockers
The Bard Stars: Southampton rock
The Beautiful Sleazy: Cambs/ Peterborough band
The Fore: Indie / 60s merseybeat
The Gangsters: Ska, reggae and funk
The Living Daylights: Punk
The More I See: Thrash metal
The Prophecy True: Metal band - average age 14
The Rainmen: Rock'n'roll / soul covers
The Real World: Originally Time Out in the 80s.
The Winter Kings: Irish/Cambs folk
The Walth: Punk rock
Toxic Federation: Rockers
Time To Leave: Rock
Transkei: Metal, punk and pop
Walking Wounded: Folk-rock