NOT content with juggling A levels and a music website a Kendal teenager is preparing to put on one of the biggest music festivals South Lakeland has ever seen.

Brain behind local music scene website Papscene Dave Armstrong is preparing to launch PapFest a mini festival showcasing local and not so local music this summer.

With a line-up of 15 bands playing indie-rock to reggae poised to play at Kendal Rugby club on August 25 the all-dayer will also see an outdoor busking stage, record and clothes stands and local band merchandise on sale.

The 18-year-old Kirkbie Kendal School student who describes his extra curricular music activities as a "hobby" said he wanted to put something on for the bands which didn't always get the limelight.

"I used to be in a band and it got fairly poor promotion around the area," he explained. "I thought I could put on a gig for featuring some of the bands that don't always get the promotion or the gigs. I wanted it to be something I'd want to go to."

With Cornish band Prime Scandal headlining and Harry the Challenged announced as latecomers, other bands set to play the mini music festival are Big Green Blue, Mental Note and 5 Divinity Avenue (Kendal), Nana's Revenge (Furness), Call of Duty (Arnside), ctrlaltdelete (Carlisle), Tauntra and Snooky (Anan), Dead Generation (Lancaster), Duckhunt (Preston), Shoesonbackwards, Theory and R.O.T (Whitehaven), and Three Quarters (Blackpool).

As the music man prepares to transform the sports haunt into a mini music festivals he said he is confident of success.

"I believe this is going to be successful. I want it to have a true festival feel and I aim to do things differently to the usual band nights possibly putting this gigs in the history books," he said.

Day passes cost £6 and PAPFEST runs from 1.30pm until 11pm. For more details log on to www.papscene.cjb.net