Have you heard about Edinburgh's latest live music festival, The Great Eastern?

Described as a 'Festival of Musical Exploration and Discovery', The Great Eastern will take place on Saturday 9 May and is the latest venture from promoters 432 Presents. It follows on from the success of The Great Western Festival, which debuted in Glasgow’s West End in November last year.

The festival will host more than 40 acts across a variety of unique spaces throughout the city, including several rooms in Summerhall as well as The Queen’s Hall and King’s Hall.

Among the first acts announced for the festival are Bristol trio Beak, featuring Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, whose compelling mix of Krautrock/John Carpenter-inspired spookiness has been called is intoxicating.

Joining them will be Glasgow electro-spiritual power couple Free Love, who will be bringing their 'extraterrestrial synth salutations' back to the capital for a stunning spring celebration.

The Great Eastern will also see the return of newly-recovered London post-punks Warmduscher, who sadly were forced to pull out of last year’s west coast affair due to singer Clams Baker Jnr breaking his arm, but are now fighting fit and ready for action.

The festival will also welcome inimitable US multi-instrumentalist BC Camplight, Welsh indie-rock stormers Boy Azooga, Bella Union indie-pop troupe Penelope Isles, Edinburgh indie-folk heroes Broken Records and Rachel Sermanni, mesmerising Icelandic experimentalist JFDR and sprawling Scottish post-punk crew Kaputt.

An incredible mix of new music will also be showcased with appearances by BABii, Swim School, Super Inuit, Quiche, Rory James, Kubitaru, and Hamish Hawk.

Limited early bird tickets for The Great Eastern will go on sale on Friday 7 February at 9am with full price day tickets will be available thereafter.

For tickets and venue details visit www.thegreateastern.org