New Slang turns four years old on Thursday and to celebrate it's enticed indie favourites The Wombats down to provide the party music.

Banquet Records started the club night four years ago without so much as a PA system but, with Kingston's student population quickly catching on, it has grown exponentially.

Bands such as Vampire Weekend, The Cribs, Mystery Jets, Babyshambles and Hot Chip have been intermingled into the programme with acts from Kingston searching for a foothold in the industry - like Tubelord, Dave House and Kurran and the Wolfnotes.

The Wombats join that illustrious list on Thursday and will be performing songs from their forthcoming second album as well as hits such as Let's All Dance To Joy Division and Moving to New York.

"Myself and the other DJ, Sean, started the night with a view to getting some of our favourite bands into Kingston," says Banquet's managing director Jon Tolley who also DJs at New Slang.

"That's all it was, that was the main incentive at the beginning and the people involved at the outset are still involved now to various degrees.

"When we started at The Hippodrome there wasn't a PA for bands or anything like that.

"But every time we made a bit of money we bought another piece of equipment and eventually it got to the point we can get the bigger acts in.

"Some of the gigs we do at the Fighting Cocks to 20 people are as important as the big name gigs though, we don't want to forget that."

New Slang's Fourth Birthday with The Wombats and Get People, The Hippodrome, October 28, 9pm, £8. Visit newslangkingston.co.uk.