FOLLOWING a successful event on Bristol's floating club The Thekla, No Ground Processes (NGP) return to Newport tomorrow.

The arts collective will bring two bands from the West Country to play TJs with Newport's home-grown Teriyaki.

Headliners Hewas are from Bristol and Vase are from Chippenham in Wiltshire. They will play the 17th showcase of music and film by NGP.

Hewas (www.2vu.com/2vu/girlboy.girl/newtour.htm) is an offshoot from Bristol band Girlboy Girl.

They play quiet simple songs on an acoustic guitar, accompanied at times by other instruments including violin and melodica.

One man band Vase (www.darkitexture.co.uk/handidiom) is a regular in Cardiff's Grassroots Caf and has been going since 1991 releasing various 7ins singles on his own label Hand Idiom. The music encompasses voice, guitar, keyboard and percussion. Teriyaki (www.teriyaki.i-p.com) sound a bit like Mountain Men Anonymous used to, which is to say they play the sound coined by Mogwai and developed by Godspeed You Black Emperor. The songs are loud, impressive and very, very long.

NGP was set in 1998 as a place for new interesting music and films to be played and shown.

It has been one year since the last NGP event in Newport since which its three organisers Dan Hopkins, Mike Thomas and Chris Eynon have pursued their own artist endeavours.

Together they are the band Know Point and film makers in their own right. Chris Eynon has also been busy with his record label Cytherea Records putting out an album of the Cardiff-based post-rock band Mountain Men Anonymous and two singles by Teriyaki and Hewas respectively.

A split 12ins by Dan Hopkins and Mike Thomas under their alias HL and PFM is coming soon.

Mike Thomas was awarded a prize for best documentary for his short films at the Ffresh Student film awards in Aberystwyth.

Dan Hopkins moved to Stoke on Trent where he puts on EElectornic Image, a showcase of film, but has continued to work in Wales.

As NGP the three have supplied Mountain Men Anonymous with visuals at their gigs around Britain and video DJ for Bristol's Point of Reference promoter/record label. They have also showed short films in London and Stoke on Trent.

Admission to NGP on Saturday, January 25 is £1. Doors open at 7.30pm. For more information surf to either www.nogroundprocesses.co.uk or www.tjs-newport.demon.co.uk