BRISTOL Summer Series comes to the city's historic harbourside on Thursday, June 26 with Irish punk band The Pogues and support fromfolk rock band The Rails.

Featuring English singer-songwriter duo Kami Thompson and James Walbourne, The Rails are the product of many years of its two founding members playing with folk royalty and are guaranteed to capture the hearts of Bristol crowds.

James, a teenage prodigy with a fascination for early rock ‘n’ roll and roots Americana, has played with Ray Davies, become part of the touring line up for The Pogues and joined The Pretenders as lead guitarist in 2008.

Kami is the youngest daughter of Richard and Linda Thompson, the first couple of Seventies folk rock.

Kami and James have been working together since 2011, romance blooming alongside their music. They married in 2012.

“It’s quite therapeutic,” adds James, wryly. “My folk music is really ’56 Elvis, that’s where I come from. I was introduced to Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music at an impressionable age, bands like Son Volt taught me a lot of American old time folk ballads, and they are all rooted in the old English and Irish ones, as I found out spending time with Shane McGowan and even Chrissie Hynde, she knows all this stuff. Who is to say what is folk anymore? These are our own songs but written with a certain sound and attitude that connects to music that came before.”

The concert will take place at Bristol’s iconic Amphitheatre . This is an all ages event but (under 16’s to be accompanied by an adult). Tickets are available from: www.gigsandtours.com / www.ticketmaster.co.uk and Bristol Ticket Shop.