Latino-inspired rock act The Bookhouse Boys will be among more than 100 acts performing at this year's Lounge on the Farm festival.

The band, whose debut album is due in August, are among acts with a Canterbury past.

Three members - Natty DeFriend, Will Emms and Heddy Korachi-Alaoui - attended Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys.

Psych-rock favourites The Coral are the latest headline addition to the festival line-up.

They will perform an acoustic set at the end of the three-day jamboree at Merton Farm on Canterbury's outskirts.

Also playing are The Shortwave Set, Black Kids, The Bees and Dub Pistols Sound System among more than 100 acts across six stages.

Folk, rock'n'roll and hip hop and psychadelic fusion are all on the menu but tickets are selling fast.

More information on the line-up, plus how to get tickets>>>

Lounge on the Farm is on July 11-13.

We spoke to The Bookhouse Boys' Will and Heddy on their first Lounge outing - and their former teachers - among other things.

How would you describe your music and look to someone who's never seen/heard you?

Will: I'd say that if you threw Dick Dale, The Ventures, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, a crew of drunken sailors, David Lynch, Angus Young, a Mexican mariachi band, Muse, Chet Baker, some Apalachian folk singers, Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn, polar explorers and ocean crossing adventurers into a pot and pulled out nine people singing you might get the Bookhouse Boys.

What do you know about the Lounge and how do you feel about playing in a cow shed?

Heddy: It'll be interesting playing in the cow shed, if only for the fact that I used to have to run past it every week during school cross-country runs.

Will: Yeah that's right. I'd be happy to play in a cow shed. I'm just really impressed that Canterbury has something like this going on. It looked like the city was losing all of its' venues at some point a few years back, but things seem to be turning around now.

Who else are you excited about hearing on the Farm?

Heddy: I've been quite taken by Johnny Flynn and the Susex Wit. Their show at the ICA in London was great - and Polar Bear will be a must hear for me too.

Will: Yeah, Johnny Flynn for me too. Billy Childish is always worth catching if just to see him play through his own vintage PA. I can imagine The Bees doing a good show.

Where does the flamenco inspiration come from?

Will: I'd say it is more a Mexican mariachi thing rather than flamenco. There might even be a bit of the Balkan brass band thing going on in there too and a little Scott Walker. Nine people with open ears bringing bits to the musical table.

Pubs, industrial warehouses, theatres, fields? Where do you prefer performing?

Heddy: We've played a lot of the pubs and clubs in London over the last 18 months and sometimes it can be a bit of a squeeze with all nine of us in the corner of a pub, so anywhere with a bit of room to swing my arms gets my vote. We played our first festival shows last summer and I really enjoyed the response of the crowds. Perhaps having a bit of sun and cider helps.

Will: Playing on big festival stages is great, room for us to move around and crowds to win over. Always nice to look your audience in the whites of the eyes in a small club too though.

When is your next album coming and how can people get it?

Will: Our debut album is recorded and is going to be mixed in the next month or so and I'm reliably told that it will be coming out on August 18 on Black Records, but you never know. If you can't wait that long there are still copies of our first two singles out there.

Given your Canterbury links was it a tough decision coming to the Lounge?

Heddy: Not at all. I bumped into some old friends of mine when I came down to do an NME club night show last year. I got out of the van and they were there to help us into the venue. It turned out that they ran the club night and also Lounge on the Farm. It was all signed and set that very evening, and I didn't even have to ask the rest of the band.

Will: I agree with Heddy. I was really excited to hear that we had been asked to play. I'm quite looking forward to showing the rest of the band some old haunts, show off some local knowledge.

Do you keep up with Canterbury's music scene?

Heddy: I've kept an eye on the club night and have been following the line-up for Lounge - does anyone know if Luke Smith still plays his music?

Will: I heard Luke Smith on Radio6 pretending to be Noel Gallagher. It was brilliant. Otherwise I'm not really sure what's been going on down in Canterbury recently, but I'm just glad to hear that there is a scene.

What do you remember of music lessons at school and are your old teachers still there?

Heddy: I don't think any of our music teachers are still at the school, but the funniest music lesson I remember was when we were let loose on the electric keyboards and one of my class mates (let's call him Paul), wrote a song about the size of another class mates ears (let's call him Andrew). He actually got an A for that piece because he'd 'avoided the use of the second inversion, and had used an interrupted cadence to dramatic effect'!!!

Will: Yeah I think one of our number was blamed for a music teacher leaving the school. Something to do with a flugel horn. I don't remember the details.