Indie acts Pete Doherty, The Klaxons, Happy Mondays and Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield from the Stone Roses are among the stars lined up for weekly music sessions launched in Bradford next week.

The Friday night live music and DJ set, called Rock n Rolla, will combine gigs by local bands and established acts.

Organiser Mark Wilson, known as Slim, also hopes to secure Kasabian, winner of this year’s Brit award for Best Band, and Futureheads for a session.

The venue is the Love Apple Cafe, Great Horton Road, where the launch night, on Friday, April 2, will feature a DJ set by Mani, former Stone Roses bassist and currently in Primal Scream. The following week will see a gig by Bradford bands Operator Six, who have supported Paul Weller, and Disco Machine Gun. Pete Doherty and The Klaxons are scheduled to appear in June.

“I want to build continuity so it becomes an established Friday night event in Bradford, with local acts and regular big names,” said Slim, who has hosted club nights at Bradford University and the former Maestros nightclub on Manning-ham Lane.

He has worked on some of the UK’s biggest club nights, including Gatecrasher and Ministry of Sound, and at Amnesia in Ibiza.

“I’ve been involved with the club scene for 20 years and there’s a buzzing Bradford scene right now,” he said.

“Young people aren’t just listening to one genre of music any more, the iPod generation is downloading a broad spectrum of music. Look how successful and diverse festivals have become in recent years; they have stages and tents for rock, electronic, pop and rap.

“I’m bringing together genres of music from across the board – indie, electronica, big beat, nu dance, lo fi, dubstep – that teenagers through to older clubbers can appreciate. It’s a great mix of commercial music.”