Formed as recently as early 2008, Mitsu’s Run spent their first 6 months holed up in the Ex-servicemen’s club in Oswestry.

Run Fast Turn Left started life in late 2006 originally as a side project but quickly becoming bigger and bigger the band felt themselves devoting more and more time to the band.

Callebra are a Shropshire-based fourpiece whose diverse musical loves have combined to create their unique and memorable sound.

Deco, who based in Shrewsbury, are aiming at the creation of Art Rock albums, combining their influences Radiohead & Portishead, with the more mainstream edge of a heavy Placebo influence.

For a band of mildly disorganised twenty-somethings, The Jackdaws are a pretty determined and resilient bunch.

The beautiful rural backwater of Shropshire may not be the most obvious place to go looking for new music, but melodic outfit the Greens are doing their best to buck that trend.

Emerging from the mean streets of Telford and Albrighton, Young Fate burst onto the hip-hop scene in 2005.

Hill Valley High started off as a five-piece group all attending New College in Telford – their music is a mixture of pop/punk/electro rock, with live performances that are more like parties instead of gigs.

Your pictures of Shropshire’s butterflies.

Local bands have been quick off the mark to fight for a place in the final of the 2009 Shropshire Star Battle of the Bands.

Teenagers either love them or dread them, but your school prom should be something that you remember with affection for the rest of your life, writes Sue Austin.

Wednesdays are set to be “wonderful” in Shrewsbury thanks to a new promotion by Destination Shrewsbury and the Shop in the Loop group.