MISS Peapods will be offering up a warm hug in the form of music this week with a visit from Cocos Lovers and Hot Feet, who play the venue on Saturday from 8pm.

Since forming in 2008, Cocos Lovers (pronounced Co-Coss) have become festival favourite, gaining a reputation for fantastic multi-instrumental performances with choir like harmonies and glorious melodies.

The music is heartfelt and pure combing traditional folk, African and Eastern rhythms and strains of the Deep South.

They’ve earned a reputation for fantastic live performances with an ever-changing instrumental line-up of mandolin, banjo, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, violin, musical saw, flute and a unique blend of drums and percussion.

Hailing from the small but musically rich town of Deal, they are a close-knit seven-piece band of family, friends and former au pairs.

Also performing are Stroud folk rock band Hot Feet. The band may be inspired by the Gloucestershire countryside that surrounds them but if you’re expecting a serene, pastoral paradise then you may be in for a bit of a surprise.

Nature, after all, can be as brutal as it is beautiful, and there's more than a hint of edgy, uneasy danger nestling not far beneath the surface of four piece’s fragile sound.

Even their debut release, 2013’s five track Wood House EP, while reflecting their |original incarnation as an acoustic duo consisting of founder members Marianne Parrish (vocals, guitar) and Jack Page (lead guitar), had its more sinister flipside.

The addition of former college mates bassist Lachlan McLellan and drummer Rob Pemberton to the line up had brought a gloriously quirky groove to their fragile sound, certainly. But within Marianne’s vocals, betwitchingly pure in tone, there were disarmingly frank, intimate |confessions of bitter heartache, loneliness and emotional angst.

As Lachlan puts it: “There are some pretty dark lyrics hiding underneath quite uplifting tunes.”

Music starts at 8pm Tickets are £6 in advance / £7 door – see www.wegottickets.com or see www.misspeapods.co.uk