Featuring AZIZ. Saturday 28th August, Edinburgh Corn Exchange, Fringe Venue 77. John Robb: "...it's going to get wild!"

International music services company SoundBar Entertainment Limited (SEL) has teamed up with Edinburgh-based Nexus Music Management and Oxfam (a member of the Disasters Emergency Committee, DEC) to hold a large-scale Pakistan Flood Relief appeal gig at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this Saturday, with performers including AZIZ.

Mohammad Sarwar, who served as British Labour party MP in Glasgow between 1997 and 2010 and was the UK's first Muslim MP, will open the Rock and Roll Circus, which takes place during the afternoon and evening at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange on Saturday 28th August.

The event features eight bands including the young classic metal princes Toxic Federation; the legendary creator of the Asian Blues (and former Stone Roses guitarist) Aziz Ibrahim's new band AZIZ; folk pop star Roxanne Emery; Inspired; rising rockers The Asps; The Laymanites; The Stagger Rats; and Pose Victorious. All profits from the gig will go specifically to the Pakistan Flood Appeal and all the bands performing are waiving their fees in support.

Official Oxfam collections will also be held at the event, which starts at 3pm and finishes at 11pm, with the first band onstage at 4pm. Tickets are £6 each, available through the Edinburgh Festival Fringe box office (www.edfringe.com), direct from SEL (www.soundbarentertainment.com) or through the box office or on the door at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange (Fringe Venue 77, 0131 477 3500).

This gig is being run through SEL's InterMusic Integration Initiative (III), an ongoing project that brings together the best of Asian and Western rock, punk, soul, pop, indie and folk artistes on the same circuits, both in the UK and overseas.

SEL has plenty more planned for the next few months including a much larger-scale Pakistan Flood Appeal gig for Oxfam. As III spokesman, the renowned journalist and musician John Robb, put it: "Stand by and hold tight - it's going to get wild!"