YORK school and college bands line up in the Best of The Bands competition at the Grand Opera House, this evening at 7pm.

The running order will be: Exile, from Fulford School; Whyte Light, St Peter's; Five:15, Archbishop Holgate; The Silhouette Zoo, York College; The Novelties, The Manor; Pitbull Turbo, Millthorpe; The Valves; All Saints; The Nicoles, Bootham; LTD, Canon Lee; Airheads, Huntington; Bye Bye Lena, The Mount; Kafka, Performing Arts Centre, run by City of York Council; The Haze, Lowfield; and The Frizz, Joseph Rowntree.

The guest band at this sold-out event will be Breakout Project.