A host of Liverpool's most successful and best-loved bands are coming together to help save Wollton Cinema. The cinema has been put up for sale following the death of its patron and campaigners now fear that the site will be bought for development.

The line-up includes Liverpool bands China Crisis,MuddyHead, The Mersey Beatles, The Circle and The Riffs and also all-female rock band The Tommys.

"We are so lucky to have China Crisis playing the gig," commented Sally Morrison-Griffiths from the Save Woolton Cinema campaign. "We're really looking forward to it. We are pleased with the support we have had from so many Liverpool bands - so many infact we might have to put on a couple more gigs!".

Other bands including Hot Club de Paris, Amsterdam and the Aeroplanes are also supporting the campaign. "It doesn't surprise me that local bands get behind something like this because there is a huge artistic community in Liverpool as well as people with a strong sense of what is right. Surely if Liverpool City Council claim to call Liverpool the Capital of Culture, it is right that they should support the arts and culture that we have, because there's plenty of it!" says Sally.

Woolton Cinema is almost 80 years old and has survived the great depression, World War II and the multiplex invasion of the 1980s. It is also a childhood haunt of John Lennon's, inspiring the lyrics to his 'A Day in the Life'. He and the Quarrymen (Lennon's original band) called it 'The Bug House'.

The fundraising gig is on Friday 1st December 2006 at the New Picket, Jordan Street, Liverpool L1 0BW, 8pm -2.00am.

Contact the New Picket on 0151 708 6789 Tickets are £8 or £5 for concessions and are available from Liverpool's Probe Records in Slater Street 0151 708 8815 or directly from Campaign HQ.

info@savewooltoncinema.co.uk or telephone 0151 428 8495