The summer Westival at Aldershot's West End Centre had everyone smiling at the weekend, with a blend of music and art and some farmyard animals thrown in as well.

For the third year running, punters packed into the Queen’s Road venue to come together and celebrate one of the area’s best-loved arts centres.

Fleet-based band Arthur brought the house down on the Pyramid Stage on Saturday night, after The Le Brocks, from Godalming, had fired up a storm on Friday night.

Other highlights included Two Fingers of Firewater who used a mixture of acoustic guitar, drums, piano and a pedal steel guitar to bring a country feel to the event.

Angry Boy, Flying Ike and KFC all drew large crowds.

More than 200 people attended the event, where organisers had laid down real grass to give the indoor festival an outdoor feel.

For the first time the event included farmyard animals, which delighted the younger festival-goers.

"Lovely event"

Centre manager Barney Jeavons said: "I don’t think people thought we were serious when we said we were going to have animals there.

"When it started during the day it was mainly children playing with them but by about 4pm it was nearly all adults and some of the bands too."

Unfortunately the art group booked to run a workshop on Saturday afternoon pulled out at the last minute, but budding Picassos were not left empty handed when the Westy’s staff stepped in and arranged painting, drawing and face painting.

Farnborough based-soloist Splat was one of the event’s heroes, filling in for absentee acoustic stage headliner Slow Club.

Jeavons added: "It was a really lovely event. The whole thing was amazing... so many different people coming together and having a great time.

"It’s just a chance to celebrate everything we have at the Westy. We first did it three years ago when Glastonbury missed a year and we thought it was such a shame that there wasn’t something going on.

"It just grew and grew from there. There are lots of artists and bands who are all different in their own ways so it’s great to give something back to them and to Aldershot."