The Lewes Guitar Festival, which for nearly a week will have brought an eclectic array of top drawer music to town from all around the world, will see its last hurrahs thrashed out on three chords in the Lansdown on Sunday night by a couple of local groups. But if past gigs by the bands in question in the same venue are anything to go by, it should be something of a tumultuous finale. The last time I saw Turning Green play in the Lansdown Arms was the only time I’ve ever witnessed an episode of crowd-surfing in Lewes. And the Laser Crabs are so local to the venue they might just drip out of the taps and onto the stage. With attitude, mind, and a setful of punchy anthems.

In the afternoon, the official festival sees its conclusion in Grange Gardens, with two Brighton bands, the Mountain Firework Company, folky alt-country artists with a touch of the vaudeville about them, and Los Piratas, a Latin roots outfit who play ‘upbeat and highly infectious’ Brazilian forro and Colombian vallenato. “None of the tunes ya’ll be hearing,” they say, “can be claimed to be ours truly. We make do with bits borrowed here and pieces stolen there… taking the raw material from inspiring sources and stitching it together roughly.” All good things have, alas, to come to an end. We’d like to take this occasion to thank the organisers of the LGF for putting together a festival which the town can justifiably be proud of. AL