ONLY IN its second year at the Carnegie Hall, fledgling Tigerfest music festival is a cub when compared to established events like T in the Park, just up the road at Balado.

However, businesses have not been slow to recognise the commercial potential of backing the Fife showcase of Indie music.

Like the festival line-up itself, there is a mix of new and established brands queuing up to be sponsors of the event, an annual music festival which started out as part of the Edinburgh Festival in 2004.

New radio station Xfm 105.7-106.1 are media sponsors while the Express by Holiday Inn at Dunfermline will be showing hospitality to festival bands and their fans from Finland and Holland, as well as those arriving from all around Britain.

National musical instrument retailer Sound Control is also supporting the event, while Fife Council’s major events funding programme has invested £9250 in it.

Carnegie Hall’s theatre manager and festival organiser Evan Henderson said that sponsors were demonstrating their faith that Dunfermline is fast becoming a centre for music.

He added that Tigerfest, along with other regular events such as the monthly gigs in Monty’s were in the forefront of the movement.

Tigerfest offers a line-up of Indie bands at the Carnegie Hall and other west Fife and east coast venues this month.